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Loading... The Wee Free Menby Terry PratchettSeries: Discworld: Young Adult (2), Discworld: Tiffany Aching (1), Discworld (30)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Hysterically funny. Especially the Scottish accent of the wee free men. Does get a little strange when they enter Fairyland. Not for a lower level reader. Good for avid fantasy readers.YA  bookwoman137 | Jan 20, 2010 |  Tiffany Aching wants to be a witch when she grows up - but in the meantime she puts her incipient skills to good use rescuing her small and very sticky brother from the clutches of The Queen, aided only by a toad, a frying pan and a band of tiny, blue-skinned barbarian pictsies. I wasn't sure whether I'd like the Tiffany Aching books, given that I don't read a lot of YA lit. Beyond the fact that the main protagonists (well, the human ones) are children and the relative simplicity of the verbal puns, there's not a lot of difference between this and the adult Discworld books. Tiffany is an excellent character whose self-awareness grows a lot through the course of the book. I adored the Nac Mac Feegle, who hurtle with riotous abandon through the pages leaving chaos (but nothing that isn't nailed down) being them. This is a gloriously effervescent story, which has me really looking forward to A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith. (  ) CatyM | Jan 11, 2010 | http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1375993... It is very good; I think it has a particularly strong start, Tiffany Aching being one of Pratchett's best characters and the Nac Mac Feegle, who could easily just have been a one-joke race, giving us a twisted but profound perspective on the world of big people. This book is about death and growing up, and delivers its message subtly. And I loved the bit about the Nac Mac Feegle's swords glowing blue in the presence of a lawyer. ( ) nwhyte | Jan 10, 2010 | ‘Wee Free Men’ is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. Tiffany Aching’s little brother is kidnapped by the Queen of another world – a world where your dreams and nightmares come true. Tiffany sets off on a journey to rescue him with a large pair of boots and a frying pan. She meets up with the Wee Free Men, a band of brothers bent on fighting and drinking who assist her on her journey. Tiffany also wants to become a witch and this factors into her adventures. I read a lot of Pratchett books when I was younger and really enjoyed them. This book however did not really cut it for me. I find Pratchett to be rather wordy and sometimes unclear. He is a humorous writer, no doubt about that, but I guess I have grown out of his style. It is an interesting plot line, but I wish certain aspects of it were a little bit more developed, for example, Tiffany meets a witch who is briefly involved with the story but then disappears almost completely until the very end of the story. I think if the witch was a little more involved somehow the story line would be more interesting and maybe have held me a little better as a reader. (  ) adriannebaker85 | Dec 8, 2009 | A raucous read in a land of nightmares and kidnapped little brothers, doors that aren't there unless you look for them, tiny blue men with fiery red hair and a Scottish glee, a young girl who makes cheese as the hero - all which makes you laugh out loud while hoping upon hope that the wee free men might possibly, if I say it's so, live in MY backyard too. The Nac Mac Feegles Scottish dialect sometimes made my reading of the book tiring and disjointed, but this was still a great read, with adventure, mystery, fantasy, witches, monsters, elves, bees, and sometimes, magic. (  ) MissDiggy | Nov 26, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060012382, Mass Market Paperback)Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching needs magic--fast! Her sticky little brother Wentworth has been spirited away by the evil Queen of faerie, and it’s up to her to get him back safely. Having already decided to grow up to be a witch, now all Tiffany has to do is find her power. But she quickly learns that it’s not all black cats and broomsticks. According to her witchy mentor Miss Tick, "Witches don’t use magic unless they really have to...We do other things. A witch pays attention to everything that’s going on...A witch uses her head...A witch always has a piece of string!" Luckily, besides her trusty string, Tiffany’s also got the Nac Mac Feegles, or the Wee Free Men on her side. Small, blue, and heavily tattooed, the Feegles love nothing more than a good fight except maybe a drop of strong drink! Tiffany, heavily armed with an iron skillet, the feisty Feegles, and a talking toad on loan from Miss Tick, is a formidable adversary. But the Queen has a few tricks of her own, most of them deadly. Tiffany and the Feegles might get more than they bargained for on the flip side of Faerie! Prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett has served up another delicious helping of his famed Discworld fare. The not-quite-teen set will delight in the Feegles’ spicy, irreverent dialogue and Tiffany’s salty determination. Novices to Pratchett’s prose will find much to like here, and quickly go back to devour the rest of his Discworld offerings. Scrumptiously recommended. (Ages 10 to 14) --Jennifer Hubert(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:39:12 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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