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A review by schildpad
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
5.0
“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.