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mwren707 's review for:
The Shepherd's Crown
by Terry Pratchett
Over the course of the last two plus years I’ve read 45 Discworld books. I followed various arcs from beginning to end, finishing the series with the “witches” arc. It concluded with the final book Terry Pratchett wrote before passing away.
I was expecting this book to feel less complete than it was. It was a moving story that stitched together many of the threads of Discworld, serving as a reminder of the tapestry of lore, characters, and humor that encases this wonderful world floating on the back of A’Tuin through space. It felt like a complete story; and there were only a few signs that it was still a work in progress.
There are gaps in characterization, and questions left unanswered with some characters, but this was an extremely satisfying story. I felt some of the other later books in the series began to feel more monotone than earlier stories, but Shepherds Crown manages to avoid some of that by just being a shorter more rapid fire tale. I was moved to tears multiple times, laughed out loud, caught jokes that sparkled like a twinkle in the eye (lumberjacks mentioning wearing lingerie in passing triggering memories of watching Monty Python when I was a kid, for example).
The main theme here is a message of friendship, compassion, empathy, and caring being the driving force that is necessary in ushering a new age of technology. In maintaining the fabric of our world. The Discworld has always been a shining mirror of our Roundworld, and this book contains a message as important and timely as any other book in the series.
I think I could go on for hours explaining why this series has meant so much to me. I spent nearly two years with somebody who was reading this series at the same time as me, enriching our relationship. I played games based on these books when I was a pre-teen, making some of my first online friends and sparking my imagination which in no small part led to my career in the game industry. Informing the proper way to treat people, how to see people for what they really are, how to read and tell stories, etc. Really I just hope that people will pick it up and find their own meaning in these wonderful books. And hopefully we can all start living out better stories for ourselves and our little marble of a world.
I was expecting this book to feel less complete than it was. It was a moving story that stitched together many of the threads of Discworld, serving as a reminder of the tapestry of lore, characters, and humor that encases this wonderful world floating on the back of A’Tuin through space. It felt like a complete story; and there were only a few signs that it was still a work in progress.
There are gaps in characterization, and questions left unanswered with some characters, but this was an extremely satisfying story. I felt some of the other later books in the series began to feel more monotone than earlier stories, but Shepherds Crown manages to avoid some of that by just being a shorter more rapid fire tale. I was moved to tears multiple times, laughed out loud, caught jokes that sparkled like a twinkle in the eye (lumberjacks mentioning wearing lingerie in passing triggering memories of watching Monty Python when I was a kid, for example).
The main theme here is a message of friendship, compassion, empathy, and caring being the driving force that is necessary in ushering a new age of technology. In maintaining the fabric of our world. The Discworld has always been a shining mirror of our Roundworld, and this book contains a message as important and timely as any other book in the series.
I think I could go on for hours explaining why this series has meant so much to me. I spent nearly two years with somebody who was reading this series at the same time as me, enriching our relationship. I played games based on these books when I was a pre-teen, making some of my first online friends and sparking my imagination which in no small part led to my career in the game industry. Informing the proper way to treat people, how to see people for what they really are, how to read and tell stories, etc. Really I just hope that people will pick it up and find their own meaning in these wonderful books. And hopefully we can all start living out better stories for ourselves and our little marble of a world.