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La notte di Babbo Maiale

Terry Pratchett

4.22 AVERAGE

ekko's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: No

jehronimo's review against another edition

4.0

Немного вайб кошмара перед рождеством, надо экранизацию глянуть.

dragonwriter's review against another edition

5.0

challenging funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Mood: 🤨😆😄🎅🏼💀

All Susan wants is to live a normal life as a governess, have a normal Hogswatch, and be normal, but when her grandfather, the personification of Death, drops down the chimney with a sackful of presents for her wards pretending to be the Hogfather, Susan reluctantly accepts that this holiday, at least, will not be normal. As Death fills in the gap left by the Hogfather, leaving presents and visiting Hogfather Grottos to make his appearances, Susan rushes to figure out what is happening. With new faeries and gods popping into existence and Tooth Fairies appearing dead on the streets, both Death and Susan have their work cut out for them.

I have been dipping my toes in the Discworld books, not following any story thread, just grabbing books as they pop up in my orbit. This is my first meeting with Susan, though not my first meeting with Death, since my first Discworld book was Mort, so I knew Death and Albert and Susan’s parents. Death is certainly my favorite character in the series. In this book, I love how he takes to the duties of Hogfather, padding his stomach with a pillow and trimming his jaw with a false beard so he’ll be as like the Hogfather as possible. Susan trying to be normal and disliking her inherited abilities took some getting used to, since she’s very brusque and matter of fact. I have a hard time identifying with characters that want to be normal, but I liked how protective she was of the children, and how she helped the Oh God of Hangovers. The finale with Teatime was interesting. I did like the resolution to the Tooth Fairy’s tower, and I liked the showdown between Death and Teatime, as well as his confrontation with the Auditors. Death telling Susan how important it was for humans to believe the big lies so they can accept the other, more important lies, almost brought me to tears. I loved it. Definitely the perfect read for Christmas.

alexmegami's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jackbottomley's review against another edition

4.5

One of my personal favourites so far

harc's review against another edition

5.0

I read the first 150 odd pages and, upon realising I wouldn't have enough time to read and do everything I needed to do today, switched to the audio book after.

This was my first audiobook that I've completed (somewhat) and I really enjoyed it. The narrator was fantastic and easily made the story more enjotable. All the characters seemed to come to life thanks to them.

Reading books about Death from Discworld has become an accidental fave sub-genre(?) of the overall series. This was only my second but I adore his character so much. I also really liked Susan, The Raven & The Death of Rats as well as seeing the Unseeing University again. Hex got a few chuckles out of me along the way too.

I remember watching the TV movie version of Hogfather a good ten or so years ago but I was a little hazy on the details. The book was super enjoyable and I'm hoping to pick up more Pratchett in 2022!