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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. lecari | Jul 9, 2009 |   Pratchett at his best. The Hogfather (the Santa Claus of Discworld) is missing, and Death has to fill in. Great setup and Pratchett follows through. (  )mohi | Jul 5, 2009 | The hogfather is such a wonderfully developed character you are completely drawn into this wonderful story. It isnt as funny as some of Terry Pratchetts other work but it is just as good. Death however lends some great comic relief in this darker than usual novel. (  )rincewind1986 | May 23, 2009 | I love the Hogfather. In this book, Susan has developed. She has not yet accepted her powers but she does use them. In this book, Susan meets the Auditors for the first time. Death is wonderful in his roll. I like the scene in the department store but I really like the Good King Wenceslas scene. eetzel | Apr 18, 2009 | Hogfather is a book that takes the Discworld to a deeply philosophical place. The final scene with Death and Susan is fantastic, brilliant, and all sorts of other exclamatory adjectives. ( )ZanKnits | Feb 10, 2009 | 0.039 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0061050466, Hardcover)What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this is the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren't real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death tries. He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter, and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death (Mort, Reaper Man, and Soul Music) know, he takes things literally. He gives children whatever they wish for and appears in person at Crumley's in The Maul. Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert, and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University, and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn't have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas. --Nona Vero (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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This is just as good as the others in the series - Death takes on the role of the Hogfather, the Discworld version of Father Christmas. Once again there is Susan, now an adult, and the wizards (who are as crazy as always). I loved the scenes with the Oh God of Hangovers, and the pen eating monster! And Death, as always. "You didn't really leave a pony in their kitchen did you master?" "of course not Albert. That would be unhygienic. It's in the bedroom."
Definitely worth reading - you don't have to have read the others for this one to make sense, although it does help if you have familiarity with the Discworld beforehand (as with any of them!). (