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If you have young daughters, though, the Tiffany Aching books are a great place to start.
by SamBam 4y ago
If you have young daughters, though, the Tiffany Aching books are a great place to start.
- bgribble 4y agoI've read the Tiffany Aching books aloud to both my daughter and my son and they both loved them. Partly (mostly?) for the spectacle of me trying to read a Nac Mac Feegle accent :) FWIW I only recently learned that "crivens" is maybe a real expression, a much-shortened form of "Christ defend us". In the same way as "God blind me" reduces to "blimey"...
- SamBam 4y agoThe kids similarly love my Nac Mac Feegle accent. They can blame me for their terrible imitation of a Scottish accent when they're adults.
- amelius 4y agoWould a fan of the Harry Potter series like them?
- NikolaNovak 4y agoCould go either way. But it's an easy and quick decision / try: Discworld to me is a bit like Hitchhikers guide to galaxy, where I tell people to just read the first page - either you'll be laughing and hooked, or go "huh?"; either way it's not one of those books where you need to read 27 chapters and get to know characters etc before you make up your mind. It's a specific type of humour that not everybody appreciates, but those who do appreciate it rather quickly.
- andreareina 4y agoThe comparison to HHGttG is spot-on