Reviews and Comments

Here we go with book 2...

This wasn't quite as good as 7 year old me thought - and rose-tinted memories are joined with the knowledge that her work centered on white, Anglo, cis-het characters, almost entirely horribly middle-class, and also with the realisation that she wasn't, actually, all that good at this writing lark. I'm still going to finish the series, but only for old times sake.

I read some, but not all, of these as a child. We bought the box set for my youngest a couple of years ago, and it has sat, totally un-read, on her book shelf, so I've claimed it...

A good read so far - a couple of laugh-out-loud moments (much to the annoyance of my wife, who was asleep next to mne in bed!), a few snorts, and some rather nice characters make for a pretty good book so far.

Twists and turns and surprises, oh my...

The last of Pterry's early works I have, this is another entertaining read - not quite the Pterry we would all come to adore, but you can see how this writer became that author. I think there is one more, must track it down.

Book 4 -although the writing is getting tighter, this is by far the longest and densest book in the series so far. It's not a slog to get through - it's actually quite delightful getting to know these characters - but it's still quite a commitment. Right, onwards and upwards!

Not his best work, but it is obvious how Pterry got from here to the vast heights of his later works. Early versions of The Carpet People and prototypes of some of the characters and situations that would crop up on the Discworld* are all here, just lacking that final flourish. This might actually make a pretty good introduction to the author for younger children.

*Not to mention plenty of footnotes!

I forgot that these books kept getting better and better - for a while, at least.