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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
I think this is my favorite Tiffany Aching novel, and I needed the reread. Words of wisdom: Even things that aren't your fault are sometimes your responsibility.
There's no real need to pick favorites, but I believe this might be my Tiffany Aching book. Her courage and intellect have been tested and proven in [b:The Wee Free Men|33384706|The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481705483l/33384706._SY75_.jpg|62580], but she's still young and learning. I enjoyed learning about the daily life of rural witches, and Pratchett's creativity as expressed in Miss Level is an unalloyed delight. Tiffany's experience with the 'mean girls' (and the nice ones) resonates with anyone who was ever a preteen girl, and it's satisfying to see her deal with it. If I start listing all the details I love, I'll rewrite the book in list form, which would be very boring for all involved...
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of the best discworld books I’ve read in a while. I enjoyed the the plot for plot sake (I feel like i’ve been doing that more with the later books, but at first the plot was just a vehicle for the jokes)
Like Monstrous Regiment, this one hits harder with real world problems that he wants to satirize.
Like Monstrous Regiment, this one hits harder with real world problems that he wants to satirize.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
It was good! Certainly! I read it in two days. I just didnt really like the way it made me feel. Hivers are scary. It was like an admission to the human condition. It made me feel fear. I mean, that means it's good art. But I don't like how it makes me feel negatively.
“Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it 'opening your eyes again.' But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless... endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can close your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call... boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song — it went 'Twinkle twinkle little star....' What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!”
Tell me this is not wonderful and clever. This paragraph contains something of which one could write a hundred of philosophical books.
On the back of my version of this book was a quote from the Daily Telegraph saying: "A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages." And that's true. This book is as much about language as it is about witching. It reads like a wonderful journey to the depths of our language, it reveals how language can still be a magical thing, can still make you wonder, it shows you how it's a wild creature not to be understood easily. It screams at you: dare to be child, dare to wonder, ask questions, imagine, grow. It made me realize how little I know and how little I understand and that's great, it's perfect, I love it.
Oh and it's just really funny and clever and the characters are original and really clever and it contains a good story as well and it doesn't matter if you're ten or twenty or eighty, it's just fantastic.
Tell me this is not wonderful and clever. This paragraph contains something of which one could write a hundred of philosophical books.
On the back of my version of this book was a quote from the Daily Telegraph saying: "A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages." And that's true. This book is as much about language as it is about witching. It reads like a wonderful journey to the depths of our language, it reveals how language can still be a magical thing, can still make you wonder, it shows you how it's a wild creature not to be understood easily. It screams at you: dare to be child, dare to wonder, ask questions, imagine, grow. It made me realize how little I know and how little I understand and that's great, it's perfect, I love it.
Oh and it's just really funny and clever and the characters are original and really clever and it contains a good story as well and it doesn't matter if you're ten or twenty or eighty, it's just fantastic.
“Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it 'opening your eyes again.' But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless... endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can close your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call... boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song — it went 'Twinkle twinkle little star....' What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!”
Tell me this is not wonderful and clever. This paragraph contains something of which one could write a hundred of philosophical books.
On the back of my version of this book was a quote from the Daily Telegraph saying: "A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages." And that's true. This book is as much about language as it is about witching. It reads like a wonderful journey to the depths of our language, it reveals how language can still be a magical thing, can still make you wonder, it shows you how it's a wild creature not to be understood easily. It screams at you: dare to be child, dare to wonder, ask questions, imagine, grow. It made me realize how little I know and how little I understand and that's great, it's perfect, I love it.
Oh and it's just really funny and clever and the characters are original and really clever and it contains a good story as well and it doesn't matter if you're ten or twenty or eighty, it's just fantastic.
Tell me this is not wonderful and clever. This paragraph contains something of which one could write a hundred of philosophical books.
On the back of my version of this book was a quote from the Daily Telegraph saying: "A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages." And that's true. This book is as much about language as it is about witching. It reads like a wonderful journey to the depths of our language, it reveals how language can still be a magical thing, can still make you wonder, it shows you how it's a wild creature not to be understood easily. It screams at you: dare to be child, dare to wonder, ask questions, imagine, grow. It made me realize how little I know and how little I understand and that's great, it's perfect, I love it.
Oh and it's just really funny and clever and the characters are original and really clever and it contains a good story as well and it doesn't matter if you're ten or twenty or eighty, it's just fantastic.
It just shows you, doesn't it? Lots of other GR readers complained that this wasn't as good as The Wee Free Men, but I thought it was WAY better. I loved it. Maybe the difference for me was there was considerably less silliness and more ... enchantment, in the sense of thinking about the wonders that exist in the world and how the human imagination can unlock them if you just pay attention. There was a little of that in the first book, which elevated it for me above just comedy, but a lot more in this one. I also loved the relationship between Tiffany and Granny Weatherwax.