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Maskerade (Hardcover, 1995, Gollancz) 4 stars

The story begins with Agnes Nitt leaving Lancre to seek a career at the Opera …

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5 stars

Here are two quotes.

Quote #1:


Seldom Bucket had always enjoyed opera. He didn’t understand it and never had, but he didn’t understand the ocean either and he enjoyed that, too.


Quote #2:

Don Giovanni, Hamlet and the sea were the three finest things God ever made.


One of these quotes is from Gustave Flaubert, overrated French novelist. And the other is one of the numerous hilarious and incisive lines from this typically terrific Terry Pratchett novel.