Unseen Academicals
Sep. 30th, 2009 21:45Opening thoughts: OMG, I hope it's good!
Closing thought: Oh, Stibbons, you devious little bastard =D
This is the thirty-somethinged Discworld novel. It is not as good as Night Watch, Going Postal (or Nation) but it is a lot better than Making Money. I think I like it more than Thud! but their feel is so different that they're hard to compare.
Plenty of new characters, plenty of old characters and there's some wonderful scenes with Archacanellor Ridcully and one lovely part with Vetinari.
The plot? The wizards are forced to play football, to save their food. Vetinari feels that it is time for the Morporkian street football to shape up, start scoring goals and stop chewing ears. Religion and sports happen and on Discworld, they're both pretty similar to war.
There is also Nutt, a mysterious little man of undetermined species working in the university and two serving girls of wildly different personalities.
And it's lovely. It's a good, funny Discworld book which sneaks some really warm scenes in there. The tone is not nearly as dark as some of the more recent Watch books, but then - well, there's thoughts that bite in this book.
Lastly, it features the Librarian as a goalkeeper and Ponder going "Hmmmm" at someone in a not-nice way and that's friggin wonderful!
Closing thought: Oh, Stibbons, you devious little bastard =D
This is the thirty-somethinged Discworld novel. It is not as good as Night Watch, Going Postal (or Nation) but it is a lot better than Making Money. I think I like it more than Thud! but their feel is so different that they're hard to compare.
Plenty of new characters, plenty of old characters and there's some wonderful scenes with Archacanellor Ridcully and one lovely part with Vetinari.
The plot? The wizards are forced to play football, to save their food. Vetinari feels that it is time for the Morporkian street football to shape up, start scoring goals and stop chewing ears. Religion and sports happen and on Discworld, they're both pretty similar to war.
There is also Nutt, a mysterious little man of undetermined species working in the university and two serving girls of wildly different personalities.
And it's lovely. It's a good, funny Discworld book which sneaks some really warm scenes in there. The tone is not nearly as dark as some of the more recent Watch books, but then - well, there's thoughts that bite in this book.
Lastly, it features the Librarian as a goalkeeper and Ponder going "Hmmmm" at someone in a not-nice way and that's friggin wonderful!
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