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Hogfather (Discworld, #20)
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This book is hilarious.
The Auditors have decided that they need to "remove" the Hog Father...so they contact the Assassin's guild and Mr. Teatime (pronounce it "Teh-ah-tim-eh." ) is sent to "inhum" him (but Hog Father isn't human). As you can imagine chaos ensues. With Death taking over the Hog Father's role to keep belief in him alive, while Mr. Teatime (pronounce it "Teh-ah-tim-eh.") and Susan (Deaths grand daughter) are in the realm of the tooth fairy...Teatime trying to use what's there to assassinate the Hog Father and Susan trying to stop him, while Death is taking children's Hog Watch wishes very literally..... While all this is going on we haven't even talked about the wizards and......well you get the idea.
Pratchett at his best (and that's saying something). Read this ....or the Verruca Gnome might show up.... think about it.
The Auditors have decided that they need to "remove" the Hog Father...so they contact the Assassin's guild and Mr. Teatime (pronounce it "Teh-ah-tim-eh." ) is sent to "inhum" him (but Hog Father isn't human). As you can imagine chaos ensues. With Death taking over the Hog Father's role to keep belief in him alive, while Mr. Teatime (pronounce it "Teh-ah-tim-eh.") and Susan (Deaths grand daughter) are in the realm of the tooth fairy...Teatime trying to use what's there to assassinate the Hog Father and Susan trying to stop him, while Death is taking children's Hog Watch wishes very literally..... While all this is going on we haven't even talked about the wizards and......well you get the idea.
Pratchett at his best (and that's saying something). Read this ....or the Verruca Gnome might show up.... think about it.
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Jan 24, 2011 09:01PM
Now you should read Thief of Time (best Auditor book), or Reaper Man (best Death book).
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I've read a few...but I sometimes don't remember which ones till I start them again and say..."oh, read this one".... LOL
I re-read these two (and many of the others) on a regular basis. I'm sure you will enjoy the next one you rediscover! :)
BBC put out a decent production of this for around Christmastime. Probably 2009 or so...
I know I've seen it, and it is pretty good.
They certainly got Mr. Tea Time right.
"Teh-ah-tim-eh"?
I think the weird eyeball was the finishing touch! lol
“Inhume" is a play on exhume (to un-bury a corpse) so it’s meant to be the Assassins Guild’s word for bury, a euphemism killing a person (or minor deity in this case). Exhume is derived from the word humus or dirt, and is not related to the word human. Sorry to be pedantic.
...also they are no longer a living "human".
