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Chargement... The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Storiespar Terry Pratchett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Long before Terry Pratchett became Terry Pratchett! he was a journalist for the Buck's Free Press, writing short stories for their Children's Circle. This is a collection of some of those short stories, enhanced with illustrations by Mark Beech. It also includes commentary after each story by a Suzanne Bridson, though I'd not include that as an enhancement. I found the stories charming in a Roald Dahl way, except I suspect Pratchett of imagination, whereas I sort of suspect Dahl of LSD abuse. They were funny, witty and there are hidden references to LOTR, C.S. Lewis' work, and hilarious homages to the Wild West, including Maverick. As I read, I kept thinking my nieces would find these fun, if I could get them to just try a story or two (they're reaching that age when the tastes of all adults tank and can't be trusted), and I must bring the collection to the attention of my sister-in-law who insists that teaching small children is fun. The commentary was meh and in my opinion, skippable. Bridson is, I'm assuming, aiming it at the stories' audiences, and it's obviously meant to steer them towards the full novels. The comparisons she points out are the obvious ones, and she ignores almost all of the careful nuances and subtle wordplay that I appreciated most. My edition is the slipcased one shown and it's beautiful. Inside I found it included a full colour illustration from Mark Beech, on postcard sized stock, slipped between the pages, a pleasant bonus. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Pouvez-vous imaginer une guerre entre mages ? Un voyage fascinant à bord d'un dirigeable ou dans un sous-marin au fond des mers ? Aimeriez-vous croiser la route de la matraque la plus rapide du Far West ? Alors ces histoires sont pour vous. Vous y découvrirez une sorcière en vol sur un aspirateur, des statues ambulantes douées de la parole, une fourmi rebelle – et une tourte géante ! Ces nouvelles, écrites à l'époque où je débutais dans le journalisme, paraissaient dans mon journal local. Les jeunes lecteurs d'alors n'avaient ni tablettes numériques ni consoles de jeu, et on ne trouvait pour plat à emporter que le fish and chips. Mais, comme vous, ils avaient envie de lire des histoires d'autres mondes, de monstres et de personnages excentriques, de voyages extraordinaires et de batailles magiques. Terry Pratchett, 2015. Après Les Dragons de Château-Croulant, quatorze autres histoires fantastiques et drôles du maître conteur Terry Pratchett. Sorciers, pirates, escrocs et batailles rangées à la crème glacée au menu. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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We loved the first story, which made both of us laugh aloud at times. It involved a conjurer who suddenly finds that he can do real magic... and doesn't know how to stop. It's cleverly written and appealed to us both.
We also very much liked the last story, about some gnomes, clearly the precursor to the wonderful Bromeliad trilogy ('Truckers', 'Diggers' and 'Wings') which my son read to my grandson a year or two back. However we found that the middle ones, while well-written and involving some creatively unusual situations, rather dragged in places and didn't have much story.
Intended for older children, and, in places, fun for adults too - but this is early Pratchett, not up to the standard of his longer books.
Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2022/08/witch-s-vacuum-cleaner-terry-pratch... ( )