The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky & Wintersmith

[kellyrfineman]

I've been thoroughly enjoying my time this year with a large clan of small blue men in kilts known as the Nac Mac Feegle, and I think I might be a little bit in love with their creator, Terry Pratchett. So I'm finally getting around to telling all of y'all about these three YA novels that I've been quoting from and referring to off and on for

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[christy_lenzi]

Ha, you sound almost as passionate about the Nac Mac Feegle as my daughter. I guess I will just have to make time to read these books!

[kellyrfineman]

The Wee Free Men are absolutely hilarious. Plus, you will learn creative new curse words. And I didn't even remember to mention the Toad. Or Horace (from the third book).

After I passed my copy of the Wee Free Men to Angela, she passed it to her husband, and they've now read all three books, I believe (although her husband's reading slowed due to the Olympics, so he may not have yet finished Wintersmith). They enjoy saying "crivens!" among other things.

[juliakarr]

I'm sold! I must read these books. Thank you!

[kellyrfineman]

Huzzah! The first one in particular is almost pee-your-pants funny. And the world needs more funny.

[jbknowles]

Woohoo!

I'm so glad you loved them.

Have you listened to the audiobooks? Please say yes. They are brilliant. We have listened to them countless times now and each time I am blown away by Pratchett's writing, pacing, wit, depth. My favorite of all is the last scene in the Hat Full of Sky. SOOOO beautiful. :-)

[kellyrfineman]

Thus far I've listened to The Wee Free Men. I have Hat Full of Sky on my laptop from the library (you can "check out" an audio book for 30 days, at which time the download expires).

[angeladegroot]

I read the first book at the swim club and my laughing out loud and accented attempts at Nac Mac Feegle-isms earned me many strange looks. More than usual.

Crivens!

[kellyrfineman]

It's pretty nigh impossible not to laugh aloud at the Feegles.

[wordsrmylife]

I LOOOOOVE these books sooooo much! Crivens! Terry Pratchett is the man, in general, and I'm with you in hoping that the treatments for Alzheimer's are working, because he's a (not only) Disk World treasure. The thing that gets me every time is how warm-hearted he is. He's satire without the rage. No body gets away with anything, but he's not nasty.

But must stop raving and start supper.

[kellyrfineman]

You are so right about him. "Satire without rage" is so hard to do, but he does it brilliantly.