I bought this back when I was still at school.  I knew I'd have to wait for summer before starting it - otherwise I would've got a headache.


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On my new-found kick to read more classics this summer, my next stop was one of the most famous horror stories of all time.

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I bought this book for my mother for Christmas, and really it was only a matter of time before I'd read it.  We're both huge fans of Terry Pratchett, to the point that anything he has written is required reading.

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Uncle, I cry!  Uncle!

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Why have I been so reluctant to review this book?  Too many reasons: it is confusing, it is dense, it gets ahead of itself, encouraged by its self-importance.  It's amazing in more ways than one.  If I had sat down to review it after reading it for the first time, I might have given it less credit than it deserves.  Or so I thought at the time.

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Here again with the third installment of the curious - that is, when it's not downright dull - fantasy saga.

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Let's roll.

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It was a long time coming.

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Holy wow, am I really posting another book review two days in a row, even though this book was more than the combined lengths of the two previous books* I'd read?  I am quite surprised at myself.

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