Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: Green (also my very first Cannonball, yay?) After reading (and reviewing) the first two books in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic), I decided to keep going in chronological order. I’ve read (and loved) many of the series’ novels previously, but I’ve done it in a rather piecemeal fashion (I’ve completed the Death and City Watch subseries, as well as a smattering of other books). The third (overall) book in the series is Equal Rites, and is the […]

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The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

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I’ve read a number of books in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and have enjoyed them to varying degrees (my favourite so far is probably Soul Music). It’s a 41-book comedic fantasy series that’s really more of a collection of subseries and standalone novels set in a shared world. Traditional wisdom is that it’s actually not recommended to start at the beginning as the first few books aren’t a good representation of the overall quality of the work (my personal recommendation for starting is the fourth […]

there need to be about a million more Death books than there are

Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Hot take: Death is the best, but he’s the bestest best when he’s paired off with a human who can observe and call out the weirdness of his life Actual review: Having read Hogfather last Christmas for Book Group, I thought I’d start over again and read all of the DEATH series as I very much enjoyed Death’s characterization. And even though I already know part of how Death will turn out–e.g., we know about Susan and obviously Death still exists as Death etc–it’s still fascinating how […]

“A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.”

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

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Oh, what to say about a Terry Pratchett book that can’t be summed up as “just read it!” in increasingly louder tones? AS I said in my review of Wintersmith, the worst Terry Pratchett book is better than some of the best examples of other authors’ works. And this book has to be in my opinion one of his best. Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, is soon to be a father, which means perhaps chasing Carcer, one of the more dangeous of Ankh-Morpork’s […]

“A metaphor is a kind o’ lie to help people understand what’s true.”

Wintersmith: A Tiffany Aching Adventure by Terry Pratchett

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Wintermsith is the third book book in the Tiffany Aching series, which is set in the Discworld universe, but is geared towards children. Tiffany is a witch in training who has caught the attention of the Wintersmith, the personification of winter, which you can kind of tell from the name. But don’t imagine some older, mature fellow; he’s more like if Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians had no idea how to be human. So on top of learning to be a witch, dealing […]

When Clever Isn’t Quite Enough

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

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In the satirical novel Guards! Guards!, a secret brotherhood of (mostly witless) Ankh-Morpork citizens is led by the Supreme Grand Master, who wants to summon a dragon to the city to wreak havoc. They plan to invent a long-lost king to defeat the dragon and end the oppression they think they are experiencing. Of course, plans go awry and this story intersects with that of the Night Watch, a small group of officers who get no respect because their role is essentially pointless given that […]



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