It is up to Death’s granddaughter Susan to unravel the mystery before the world itself unravels. People are turning up dead by falling right out of the sky. Death himself is dressing up as the Hogfather and delivering presents. Synopsis: In the fanciful Discworld, Hogswatch is in full swing and children wait for the Hogfather to visit them and leave presents in their stockings.

I loved the miniseries, and have watched it multiple times since its release.īasically, I have no excuse for why it took me so long to read this book, but I finally did! In 2006, there was a miniseries called Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather, starring Michelle Dockery (from Downton Abbey), Marc Warren, David Jason, and other fabulous British actors. (Nov.This is the fourth book I have read by Terry Pratchett, and probably the one I am most familiar with.

rights: Victor Gollanz, The Cassell Group trans., first serial, dramatic, audio rights: Ralph Vicinanza. (One scene deftly skewers the Christmas carol ''Good King Wenceslas.'') Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English-language satirists. The tone of much of the book is darker than usual for Pratchett-for whom ''humorous'' has never been synonymous with ''silly''-and his satire, too, is more edged than usual. On the way to the pair's victory, readers encounter children both naughty and nice gourmet banquets made of old boots and mud lesser and greater criminals an overworked and undertrained tooth fairy named Violet and Bilious, the god of hangovers, among other imaginative concepts. It falls to a marvelously depicted Death and his granddaughter Susan to solve the mystery of the disappeared Hogfather, and meanwhile to fill in for him. Since faith is essential to life, destroying belief in the Hogfather would be a major blow to humanity. Teatime, acting on behalf of the Auditors who rule the universe and who would prefer that it exhibited no life. Discworld's equivalent of Santa Claus, the Hogfather (who flies in a sleigh drawn by four gigantic pigs), has been spirited away by a repulsive assassin, Mr.

The master of humorous fantasy delivers one of his strongest, most conventional books yet.

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