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Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
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it was amazing
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Father Christmas should watch out who is his sick leave substitute, although even a strange rebranding won´t be able to stop the commercialization of sticky, superficial holiday bliss.

Power vacuums are nasty things, just imagine what happens if an unimportant, human factor disappears, weakens, or changes sides, pure anarchy, and chaos, even worse, real progressive change is suddenly possible. And that´s nothing compared to Discworld level of power, Pratchett uses the idea of a well balanced universe with personified entities and natural forces, able to change time, space, and the laws of physics, causing catastrophes if they are sabotaged, disappear or are just having a bad day. Could be seen as kind of funny cosmic horror, not so many Lovecraftian überaliens maybe destroying a universe for fun, more anthropomorphized superbeings that have trivial problems that drive them sad, depressed, or nuts and, by the way, the universe close to destruction.

But no matter how mighty they might be, humans and fantasy creature´s believes, prayers, and sacrifices are still so important for them that they need an audience, classic god complex, in this case mixed with feelings of inferiority. Wait what second class alternatives are already nervously waiting to take their place.

Can please anyone tell me the different options of what The Auditors of Reality mean in the respective contexts in the books they appear in? What philosophical, real- life, and metaphysical, theoretical physics explanations are hidden in their motivations and why they do what they do. I´ve done rereads and especially focused on their dialogues, analyzed how they are tricked, what conclusion they draw, etc. it´s still an enigma, I feel like I am not getting something, help!

I would prefer a commercialized, delicious soft drink associated Hogfather in contrast to the boring Christkind that has a pretty tough monopoly in parts of central Europe and even hasn´t any kind of potential evil minions or dark helpers that could make the handing out of presents a bit more thrilling. Thereby I also don´t know enough about the Hogfather thing to get all the hidden innuendo treasures, stupid Christkind, shame on you, I will stop believing and you will lose all your power, ha! Cry as much as you want, commercialization owns you anyway, you old, outdated legend, I couldn´t even sit at your lap when I was small, what a poor superpower is not cloning oneself to be in every mall like good old Santa? Childhood dreams crushed.

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The idea of the dissected motifs rocks, highlighting the main real world inspirational elements of fiction and satire is something usually done with so called higher literature, but a much more interesting field in readable literature, as it offers the joy of reading, subtle criticism, and feeling smart all together.
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March 7, 2018 – Shelved

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Joe Krakovsky Afraid of Santa at an early age? That is too bad. I hope you at least got nice gifts.


Mario the lone bookwolf Joe wrote: "Afraid of Santa at an early age? That is too bad. I hope you at least got nice gifts."

Of course, but I´m still hearing the terrifying tone of the Christmas bell signaling that the Christkind has come.


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