読書狂 reviewed Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
werk
4 stars
tldr kinda drags in the latter parts, but overall a good read.
things i liked: - seeing the elder witches. always nice to see Nanny Ogg, and i love the world building that comes from seeing the whole community. - i'm finding i like Granny Weatherwax more in the Tiffany Aching books that i did in the original witch books. she's still her same old curmudgeonly self, but maybe because we're seeing her through Tiffany's eyes, she doesn't feel so off-putting. - the thing with Rob Anybody and the cow book? so good. brought a tear to me eye. (^^) - annagramma. ugh. intellectually? great, wonderful, fine. emotionally? i get so annoyed when obnoxious people turn out to be alright human beings after all. (^^)
things i didn't like: - i'm not sure why Sir Terry chose to structure this book this way, with the high-intensity scene at …
tldr kinda drags in the latter parts, but overall a good read.
things i liked: - seeing the elder witches. always nice to see Nanny Ogg, and i love the world building that comes from seeing the whole community. - i'm finding i like Granny Weatherwax more in the Tiffany Aching books that i did in the original witch books. she's still her same old curmudgeonly self, but maybe because we're seeing her through Tiffany's eyes, she doesn't feel so off-putting. - the thing with Rob Anybody and the cow book? so good. brought a tear to me eye. (^^) - annagramma. ugh. intellectually? great, wonderful, fine. emotionally? i get so annoyed when obnoxious people turn out to be alright human beings after all. (^^)
things i didn't like: - i'm not sure why Sir Terry chose to structure this book this way, with the high-intensity scene at the beginning, and then barely even referenced again when it came up chronologically. it felt kind of unnecessary, as well as affecting... - the pacing. this book definitely dragged a little, i would say starting just past the mid point, and continuing until the whole ice castle scene. i think part of that is because that one scene is yanked out and put in the beginning. there's just a chunk of intensity that's not there any more. it's like the whole narrative jammed to a halt, and the reader has to say, oh yeah, this is that part i read about literally 75% of this book ago and kinda low key don't remember that well because it didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time. i almost felt compelled to flip back to the beginning of the book and re-read that scene again, now knowing it's proper context. i don't know, i /know/ Sir Terry can write, so i'm sure there's a good reason for it, i'm just not sure what that reason is.
things i will never stop thinking about: - the memory eaters in the underworld. this book came out in, what, 2007? he had to have know by then. absolutely devastating section in the middle of an otherwise perfectly normal Discworld novel. this is the kind of thing that made me nervous of reading these last dozen books in this series when they first came out. holy crap. (T_T)
