Thats a dodgy looking chandalier... (Maskerade - Terry Pratchett)

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Product:	Maskerade - Terry Pratchett
Date:	17/08/00 (33 review reads)
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Advantages: Funny, suitable for anyone to read

Disadvantages: You have to know abit about Phantom to get some of the jokes

Pratchett does it again! Another best seller, set on the discworld (TM), featuring his star characters - the witches.

In case you are from another planet, Terry Pratchett is a hugely successful author, most famous for his comic fantasy novels which are set on the discworld - a large flat world, supported by four elephants, which floats through space on the back of a turtle. In case that isn't strange enough for you, this world features wizards, witchs, dwarfs, elves, trolls, and every other kind of creature which ever appears in any fantasy novel.

As with every Pratchett book, there are 'resonances' with the real world. In this story, the witches end up in Anhk-Morpork - a city-state ruled by a Patrician. They are following Anges Nitt - a fat girl with a thin girl desparately trying to get out. She has natural talent to be a witch, and they want to train her. She has other ideas though, and goes to join the Opera in Ankh-Morpork. Then some strange murders start happening - yes this is the discworld answer to Phantom of the Opera.

This is a funny book, with more belly laughs than most, especially if you are familiar with the world of Opera, and the story of Phantom of the Opera.

A thoroughly good read, and you spot more jokes each time you read it.

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