Witches don't have these kinds of leadership problems themselves - in fact, they don't have leaders. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. ' Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. Book 5 has its good moments…but too few of them.The audiobook of Wyrd Sisters is narrated by Indira Varma ( Game of Thrones Luther This Way Up). I’m well aware that a majority of people who set out to write fantasy of any kind comedic or otherwise never get even close to the enormity of achievement that Pratchett had. They couldn’t all be four- and five-star achievements. Sir Terry typically wrote about two books a year. Though I won’t know if this is the case until I have read more of a the novels, I suspect book 5 was just a bit of a stumble along an entertaining 41-book journey. So it’s not as if I’m inclined to not like the Discworld novels. Please bear in mind that books 1 through five all elicited four or five stars from me. I found myself basically in a rush to start book 6 on the assumption that it would be better. I flipped through half-read pages very quickly towards the end in a hurry to finish the story as opposed to reading quickly and thirstily because the story was so good. (Spoiler ahead) The Nordic myth-inspired ending (I don’t want to give too many details) as well as those dealing with the Dungeon Dimension were uninteresting and unfunny. Rincewind is thoroughly tedious in Sourcery. There are fewer rich, comedic observations. Many of the scenes in this novel drag out as scenes did not drag out in the first books. It started off rather strong but it certainly ended laboriously. Having loved the first four books, and expecting to like many of the other Discworld novels, I have to say that Discworld book 5 was surprisingly disappointing. Past the midpoint of my life, I finally started to read the Discworld books. Review #2 Wyrd Sisters audiobook in series Discworld The Tiffany Aching books remain my favorites, perhaps because they were my first, but probably because of the wee free men. Terry Pratchett was brilliant and the master of a fantasy sub-genre that probably belongs to him alone. I count myself lucky to still have so many novels of Discworld ahead of me. If a reader does not have sufficient maturity, much of the book will be wasted, because you wont get the jokes or understand the satire. These books do not contain any scenes, language, or images that would rate even a PG-13 rating at the movies. If you are someone who cannot smile at puns like martial lore or wizards were wazzards might not fully appreciate Discworld even though most of the cleverness is more sophisticated. Somehow, Terry Pratchett makes all the nonsense work. Anytime the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up in a Discworld novel, it is seriously humorous. This book did not make me laugh out loud like Wee Free Men, but it was amusing. Like all of the Discworld books, the tone is satirical and clever. He views himself as fearful and not heroic: in other words, the perfect person to save the world. Rincewind is a wizard with little mastery of magic whose feels that his main talent is staying alive in the background of his surroundings. You can trust Terry Pratchett to not be too linear and to not be predictable. There are charts on the internet that will show you the groupings. It is best if you start from the beginning of a particular grouping and work your way through, otherwise you’ll miss a lot of inside jokes, references, etc. Each book focuses on one of them, although they cross over and pop up in each others’ books all the time. The Discworld novels fall into different categories: Tiffany Aching, Rincewind, the three witches, Sam Vines and the guards, and Death. It is not long before everything in Ankh Morpork is bright and shiny and that is just the beginning of the disaster. His father mostly died when Coin was an infant, but he still would make most parents look good by comparison. Suddenly a boy wonder (Coin) arrives at the Unseen University. Its Ankh Morpork again and things are as wretched, dirty, disheveled and motheaten as usual.
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