Hogfather

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This was mostly just a fun romp, but must say the ending came together more so than I’d expected it to. It leans a little heavy into the amusing vs systemic things I like as well. But has an undeniable charm to it, I think.

The movie is VERY true to the story. Seriously. And the movie is 3 hours long! Hooray for movies being truthful to the book!

Annual reread

The Death of Rats helps it SQUEAK out that fifth star.

I loved it. It was fun, fanciful, and just silly. I laughed many times at everything from holiday logic to common sense logic explained in the way only Terry Pratchett can. It's definitely worth a read, and should be pretty easy to jump into without reading other Discworld books beforehand. You would have to just take what the book tells you at face value though, as the layers developed in prior books do build on each other to make everything fit better.

** spoiler alert ** The Hogfather is one of those books that I like to try to read every Christmas, and having seen the TV version, I have to try to decide which I'm going to enjoy, and this year chose the book! I really enjoy Death playing the Hogfather, and convincing Hex that there is a Hogfather, to the extent that he won't work if his teddy bear is taken away! A very good book, and one that I feel ranks up there with a Christmas Carol as a book that embodies the spirit of Christmas!

This was my first Pratchett book, a festive read for the festive period. I went into this expecting weirdness, with death as a main character what more could I have hoped for? I have heard many people say Death is their favourite Discworld character and now I know why. Instead of a morbid and miserable antagonist I was met with a rather innocent, kind and humorous protagonist in Death. Plot for this book? Who knows. It really was all over the place and this wasn’t helped by the lack of chapters, it made it very hard to break up the reading because usually I had to stop in the middle of some weird scene. I found it easy to get lost in the discworld, something that I suppose would happen less with the more Pratchett I read. Structurally this book was heavily dialogue based, which I enjoyed, it increased the pace of the more boring parts of the story. The general premise of Death replacing the Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent of Father Christmas) was an entertaining one and I liked him visiting people in shopping centres and his desperation to give them all exactly what they wanted. There was a startling sense of realism as Death’s servant Albert explains that not everyone can get what they wanted as a gift, or there would be a misalignment in the class system. Ah how the real world creeps into fiction. If you want to read the rest of my review, then please visit my blog https://booksnestbookishopinions.word...