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A review by kanissa
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
4.0
I love Granny Weatherwax. And Nanny Ogg is a great addition to the Discworld witch pantheon. Margat is a bit less exciting, but is an important foil for the other two witches.
While I didn't find as much "laugh out loud funny", this is a fine example of Pratchett's satire. He takes several classic plays and stories - most obviously Macbeth - and gives them the Discworld treatment. If you're up on your Shakespeare, this book is twice as wickedly clever. But if you're not, it's still funny, and you'll probably still even get a lot of the references!
I think there is a lot of truth in the assertion that theater is a type of magic, that what the plays (and by extension, other art forms) tell us becomes the accepted truth. A strangely insightful (and for today's world, very depressing) statement on the malleability of the public perception.
While I didn't find as much "laugh out loud funny", this is a fine example of Pratchett's satire. He takes several classic plays and stories - most obviously Macbeth - and gives them the Discworld treatment. If you're up on your Shakespeare, this book is twice as wickedly clever. But if you're not, it's still funny, and you'll probably still even get a lot of the references!
I think there is a lot of truth in the assertion that theater is a type of magic, that what the plays (and by extension, other art forms) tell us becomes the accepted truth. A strangely insightful (and for today's world, very depressing) statement on the malleability of the public perception.