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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This was everything you could expect from a Terry Pratchett short story collection. The stories were funny and odd and just wacky but a lot of them had a sense of being grounded in human emotions that control everything that is happening. Short story collections are probably never going to be 5 star reads for me but this was definitely a good time.
fast-paced
A lovely collection of lost Terry Pratchett stories meant I got to read something from my favourite author I'd previously not read.
Having said that, many of these stories have featured in slightly different formats in some of his other collected works. The Great Blackbury Pie, for example has a varied story in Father Christmas's Fake Beard as The Blackbury Pie and From The Horse's Mouth is very similar to the story Johnno, The Talking Horse from The Time-Travelling Caveman.
However the stories are a little bit different (possible due to a difference in allowed word count) and many of them show the seeds for greater things yet to come: Pilgarlic Towers is a precursor to Johnny and The Dead and The Quest For The Keys, is a proto-Discworld story.
So I was a little disappointed there wasn't as much new material as I'd hoped, but loved it nonetheless.
Having said that, many of these stories have featured in slightly different formats in some of his other collected works. The Great Blackbury Pie, for example has a varied story in Father Christmas's Fake Beard as The Blackbury Pie and From The Horse's Mouth is very similar to the story Johnno, The Talking Horse from The Time-Travelling Caveman.
However the stories are a little bit different (possible due to a difference in allowed word count) and many of them show the seeds for greater things yet to come: Pilgarlic Towers is a precursor to Johnny and The Dead and The Quest For The Keys, is a proto-Discworld story.
So I was a little disappointed there wasn't as much new material as I'd hoped, but loved it nonetheless.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
lighthearted
While some of these stories are less than four stars there are other that are just wonderful. I'm very glad someone found and published the collection. The narrators were excellent, as was Gaiman's introduction,
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No