I went into this excited but a little nervous too... most satires either don't look interesting to me or I don't like it when alot of others love it. My sense of humor is a bit different sometimes haha.Well, *points at my rating* happy to see this isn't the case :). Even though I didn't start at the beginning of Discworld, I wasn't confused and fell in love right away. A vibrant world that doesn't take itself seriously and plenty of laughs to go with the peril/drama when it happened.Two of the villains were a mixture of humor and menace, they had their own code and stuck by it... did want to smack them a few times but I actually liked more than hated em. A certain villain though, wouldn't poking in the eye with a fire poker.Some references I got and had a few good laughs out of, though there were probly others I didn't catch :). It's an easy book to get lost in and it lifted my mood when I was in a bit of a funk.William de Worde and Sacharissa for me:Vimes is awesome haha, can I borrow him Deborah for my crazy family members? ;-) Vetinari is an interesting man as well, though remind me to stay off his bad side.The talking dog, can we have more of him please?? I don't know what else to say to this series but:I will definitely be reading more of it!Highly recommend, happy reading!

I was astonished just now to read the following passage from a recent Time article about Donald Trump:Ask him about these struggles and the braggadocio fades to fatalism. All I can do is tell the truth, he says. If that does it, thats great. And if that doesnt do it, thats fine too.Mr. Trump, please call me as soon as possible. I have an idea. And I think you'll like it.

Prvobitno sam dala knjizi 3 zvezdice, jer jednostavno nije na humoristikom nivou starijih Praetovih knjiga. Pogreila sam, jer Praet, kao i svaki pisac, ima pravo da evoluira; u ovom sluaju kreemo se od specifinog teripraetovskog humora ka satiri. Ka kritikama modernog drutva, sa osvrtima na politika, socioloka i ina dogaanja.Nakon to sam malko porazmislila, shvatila sam da mi se zapravo najvie dopalo to to je u ovoj knjizi Praet uporedio utu tampu sa JMPD Diblerovim kobasicama - znate kakvo je smee unutra, ali se uvek vraate po jo. Jer je lepo upakovano. Jer vriti oiglednou. Nezamarajuom glupou. to je najlepe od svega, setila sam se Brehtove izjave o politici... da se ona tie svih nas. Da nemamo pravo da kaemo "politika me ne zanima"... jer politika, to je cena hleba, cena mesa u prodavnici, to je neto od ega zavise ivoti obinih, malih ljudi, koji kau "politika me ne zanima"... koji kau "za sve su to dooi krivi"... koji kau "politika je dosadna, ima li neeg smenog u novinama?"...Naravno, volela bih da ivim u politiki dosadnoj dravi. Da ne moram da brinem hou li sutra imati za 'leba, da znam da postoji pravni mehanizam koji titi obine, male ljude, ak i one koje politika ne zanima. Da znam da i nad popom ima pop, da znam da niko nije nedodirljiv. I da u njoj postoji barem jedan pravi Vajms i barem jedan pravi De Vord.

I have a favorable bias toward the story of someone stumbling into the business of printed news. This story isn't exactly analogous to my own. I decided to start a magazine when the concept of magazines already existed. William de Worde managed to invent the newspaper without even trying. Terry Pratchett does a wonderful job of showing the form evolve in fast-motion. He also gives ample stage time here to two of my favorite Discworld characters: Lord Vetinari and Commander Vimes. And of course, as always, he manages to make every page humorous without making light of serious issues (which he grapples with on, well, pretty much every page). This was also terrific read-aloud fare thanks to the character of Mr. Tulip, who swears a lot. Sort of. Specifically, he says, "--ing" all the time. Pratchett makes it clear that he isn't doing the old-fashioned removal of profanity with a dash left behind to show where the bad word was; his character's dialogue is self-cleaning, which leaves a lot of the other characters mystified. It's a lot of fun to read Tulip's dialogue aloud with a solid working-class British accent and lean on that dash before pronouncing the "ing" part. Seriously. Try it. It sounds fantastic. In fact, I might just use this as a replacement habit to give up swearing, since my son's been begging me to. Kind of a nicotine patch for potty-mouths. Anyway. Pratchett is such a skilled writer that you can jump into the Discworld books anywhere and enjoy them just fine, but I think this one is even better than usual in that regard. If you haven't read him before, this novel is a great place to start. If you have read him and haven't read The Truth yet, what on earth are you --ing waiting for?

This is now up there with one of my favorite Discworld books. I loved the humor and the characters. I found it funny that the further along William got with the newspaper the more demanding and shouty he got. If your familiar with Discworld this wont be anything new, its just another great Discworld book. If your not familiar with the Discworld, you really want to be.