He then combines it with layers of symbolism, myth, and cultural detail, and then wraps the whole package in the kind of sparkling wit that rewards intelligence and careful reading. Pratchett has an uncanny ability to create an unusual and creative adventure. you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.\" Show more And it is encroaching on Discworld, threatening to absorb it.Ī witch named Miss Tick offers Tiffany some terrific advice: \"If you trust in yourself. This Fairyland is not the nice kind, full of buttercups and Tinkerbelles it is a place of endless winter where nightmares come true, and where a person can be trapped in a dream forever. Tiffany sets out to rescue her baby brother, who has been kidnapped by the Queen of Fairyland, armed only with an iron frying pan and a book of sheep diseases, and accompanied by the brawling, boisterous Nac Mac Feegle. The Wee Free Men are the Nac Mac Feegle, tiny, redheaded, blue men in kilts, who speak in a thick Scottish brogue Pratchett invented for them, specialize in \"stealin' and drinkin' and fightin'\", and are perfectly described by one Amazon customer as \"foul-mouthed Scottish smurfs.\" She also dreams of becoming a witch (\"She preferred the witches to the smug handsome princes and especially to the stupid smirking princesses, who didn't have the sense of a beetle.\"). Tiffany Aching lives on a farm, is good at making cheese, and is a girl of uncommon sense.
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