Unseen Academicals
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1846579066 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 378 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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At its heart, this is an intelligent, cheeky love letter to football, its fans and the unifying power of sports. The always out-of-touch wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University stand to lose a very big bequest unless they enter a team in a violent but popular street sport competition. Though the book suffers from a few awkward moments (Pratchett's attempts to discuss racism through the strained relationships of dwarves, humans and goblins fall particularly flat), the prose crackles with wit and charm, and the sendups of league football, academic posturing, Romeo and Juliet and cheesy sports dramas are razor sharp and hilarious but never cruel. All rights reserved. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett's 37th Discworld novel (after 2007's
Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever. Because the thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football. Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too)
"bad guys arrested" according to Malisa Scott. While there are allusions to violence (an assassins guild, bad guys arrested, sometimes people die) and sex (a guild of ladies of negotiable affection, light references to adult behaviors), Terry handles them in a way that would make these books appropriate for even pre-teens. It has less double entendres than your basic Disney movie. Also, they have less "descriptive information" about sex or violence than your basic health or gym class.Terry writes his books in a way that will make you laugh (and think!) I would not call th. TEL said A chuckle with no small amount of truth. In the changeless, stifling, formula that seems to dominate a large portion of the world of fantasy where our hero(s) careen from one crisis to another in what will ultimately be a successful crusade to save the world, Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals is a welcome breath of fresh air. The book is, on its superficial surface, an exercise in humor after the formula made so delightful by Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Douglas Adams‘s perspective on Life, the Universe, and Everything. But, like these venues, Uns. "One of Prachett's Last and Best" according to quidley. I've read the entire Discworld series as well as several of Prachett's other books, and I must say that Unseen Academicals is his one of his very best Ankh-Morpork books if not the best, period. Without giving anything away, the main theme is very appealing and satisfying one about how people choose to live, whether as a mob or as individuals, and how important it is to direct that potential in ways that bring out our best traits, manage and direct our worst traits, and make us happy. As usual, though the thought-provoking as