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Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

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devlavaca's review

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted

5.0

geralddaniels's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

chapoule's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Always a delight to read some Terry Pratchett! His latest work in particular is an amazing mix of funny and reflective, and this book doesn't disappoint.

stpmtk's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

timinbc's review against another edition

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4.0

Re-read after many years; I was thrilled to have forgotten most of it. What a pleasure it was to rediscover it!

I particularly liked the presentation of the vampyres as a modern sitcom family, squabbling about modernity. Also the amount of time it mutht have taken to compothe the paththageth with Igor; they were thuperb. I kept hoping he'd want to make thauthageth with thome thaththafrath ...

As it happens I had just re-read Lords and Ladies in which Granny borrows a bunch of bees, so it was interesting to see what she did in this book to defeat the apparently-unbeatable enemy.

I thought it a bit odd that that Feegles' talk was nearly incomprehensible. I've had no trouble understanding it in the many other books they're in.

And I especially liked the bit at the end where Oats said something like "wherever I look I see something holy," and Granny quietly replied, "That's a start, then."