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The new Pratchett
Oct. 2nd, 2009 10:19 amUnseen Academicals is out, and I have a copy.
I suppose it's inevitable that the news we had in late 2007 about Sir Terry was going to affect the way I read each new book as it comes out, in a subtle but ineluctable way, the sense of a timer counting down rather too soon and too fast. The magic is still fully there, though; not the simple laughter of the earliest books, but a more thoughtful kind of wit with a deep vein of seriousness running through it. The book is ostensibly about football, but--like football itself, apparently--not just about football.
( Some thoughts arising from one speech in the book which is thus partially revealed... )
Apart from that, there are characters new and old, there are some wonderful one-liners, there is tenderness and mordancy and all the usual routine brilliance you expect from this wonderful, wonderful writer. Don't hesitate. If you love Discworld, you will want this book. Even though it is about football.
I suppose it's inevitable that the news we had in late 2007 about Sir Terry was going to affect the way I read each new book as it comes out, in a subtle but ineluctable way, the sense of a timer counting down rather too soon and too fast. The magic is still fully there, though; not the simple laughter of the earliest books, but a more thoughtful kind of wit with a deep vein of seriousness running through it. The book is ostensibly about football, but--like football itself, apparently--not just about football.
( Some thoughts arising from one speech in the book which is thus partially revealed... )
Apart from that, there are characters new and old, there are some wonderful one-liners, there is tenderness and mordancy and all the usual routine brilliance you expect from this wonderful, wonderful writer. Don't hesitate. If you love Discworld, you will want this book. Even though it is about football.