English language
Published March 8, 1996
Happy Hogswatch! Time to hang up your stocking, kidnap the Tooth Fairy (or at least one of her many underpaid associate representatives,) pick some locks, use some very old magick, and assassinate an anthropomorphic personification. However the Oh-god of Hangovers, Susan, her granddad Death, and his noble servant Albert are working hard to save the day, I mean, eve.
Eine der schwächeren Scheibenwelt-Geschichten - insbesondere wenn man mit Weihnachtskram sowieso nichts anfangen kann.
How would you go about killing someone who was never really alive – not in the usual sense of the word? Mr Teatime (pronounced teh-ah-tim-eh) knows exactly how he'd do it.
As philosophical textbooks go, this is a stonker. What is the nature of belief? How do beliefs interact with reality? How do they colour our view of reality?
As for zingy and/or pithy moments … this books got them in spades.
“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.”
As a novel, though, this one falls a bit short. The plot meanders a bit too much for my liking.
Very good, but not Sir Pterry's finest.
Reread 6/1/13
