Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett

For those unfamiliar with the Discworld series, it takes place on a disc-shaped imaginary world with a culture that's roughly mediaeval in technology, but ultra-modern in outlook. Humans mix reasonably comfortably with dwarfs, trolls, vampires, witches, werewolves... and yet it's not really science fiction, or even fantasy, in the general sense of those genres. Terry Pratchett writes with ironic humour, and even a little pathos at times, cleverly pointing out the eccentricities of life that we so often take for granted. This is a book about Discworld witches. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat are trying to form a coven. At least, that's what Magrat ...  Read the complete review

I don't consider myself to be an overly fussy reader but I absolutely insist on a book having an ending. Good or bad, I don't really care. Cliffhangers are fine because the intention is to resolve them elsewhere. In fact any ending that the author deems necessary is fine by me, I just like to have something between the middle of the book and the back cover. But typically if there is a duff copy doing the rounds I'll end up with it, as happened with my copy of 'Wyrd Sisters'. I would, however, like to thank the publishers, Corgi, for going to the trouble of including two middles so that I wouldn't have an unsightly chunk missing from my book. ...  Read the complete review

All Pratchett fans will know that there are four types of Discworld novels, barring a couple of exceptions. Generally, they either concern Rincewind the wizzard, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Death & Family or the Lancre witches. Pratchett first wrote about the witches in the third Discworld novel, Equal Rites. The novel was a weak sequel to his successful debut and was badly marketed by his then publishers. It fell out of recognition at the time. This is where the reader first encountered the most notorious of all witches: Granny Weatherwax. She’s old, wise, powerful and not at all nice, so it’s a good job that she’s one of the good ones. Wyrd sisters ...  Read the complete review

Terry Pratchett - oh how he is loved and feted amongst readers, such wonderful fantasy, so observant, so astute, so amusing - to name but a few comments of praise that I have read about Pratchett, both on this site and in the press at large. I have long sat on the fence over Pratchett; I saw the appeal, I could see the observation of our modern world in his Discworld fantasy series and I have on occasions smiled at some of his jokes. However, I have always found the Discworld series of books average, no more no less. Wyrd Sisters has sat on my shelf un-read for a year, left over from a time when I thought that I liked Pratchett. So, I thought that I would ...  Read the complete review

Notorious for his Discworld series, Terry Pratchett has managed to capture the imagination of his readers with mind tingling reads filled with excitement and suspense. Wyrd Sisters is an instalment from the author in which he attempts to mix fantasy with sly edge comedy, the question is; does he succeed? Wyrd Sisters is a re-write of the famous Shakespeare script, Macbeth. Inevitably, the plot is filled with twists and moments of suspense. However, Terry Pratchett claims that this work is much more amusing and entertaining for the modern generation than the society out of date Macbeth. But with so many twists and the lack of sincere comedy that Terry Pratchett ...  Read the complete review