![]() ![]() None of the peerless Pratchett's Discworld yarns are dull, and some are comic masterpieces. ![]() Susan, scheduled to terminate Imp forthwith, finds herself unable to wield her scythe, thus threatening the magical stability of the entire Discworld. It had rain mines") has somehow acquired a magic guitar that plays utterly compelling Music With Rocks In It. Meanwhile, talented musician Imp (from a place so wet that "rain was the county's main export. Susan has a helper, a rat-skeleton called the Death of Rats ("Do you just do rats, or mice and hamsters and weasels and stuff like that as well?.Death of Gerbils too? Amazing how you can catch up with them on those treadmills"). ![]() While Death's away, his granddaughter, Susan, presently attending a posh finishing school, must take over his function. This time, Death (you know, skeleton, scythe, and so forth) becomes burdened by his infallible memory - he can even remember things that haven't happened yet - and, in an effort to forget, decides to join the Foreign Legion, whose members forget things, no problem, but only in their own particular fashion (".you, everybody wears them.sand-colored"). Perhaps best considered as parody, with strong infusions of farce and satire, Pratchett's Discworld fantasies ( The Light Fantastic, 1987, etc.) consist of elliptical jokes and mad puns delivered in an unobtrusive English accent, and move to their own inimitable logic. ![]()
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