The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5)

288 pages

English language

Published March 13, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-06-242997-1
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The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March 2015. It is the 41st novel in the Discworld series, and the fifth based on the character Tiffany Aching. It was published in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2015 by Penguin Random House publishers, and in the United States on 1 September 2015.In early June 2015, Pratchett's daughter Rhianna Pratchett announced that The Shepherd's Crown would be the last Discworld novel, and that no further work, including unfinished work, would be published.

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Quarantunesimo e definitivamente ultimo libro del Discworld (Terry Pratchett ha lasciato disposizioni molto fisiche per evitare che qualcuno completasse i suoi romanzi non terminati, facendo passare un rullo compressore sopra l'hard disk con i suoi appunti...), si torna ancora a parlare di Tiffany Aching, dei MacFeegle e degli elfi: Ankh-Morpork appare solo di striscio, così come il capo dei maghi e il Patrizio; d'altra parte non avrebbe avuto molto senso uno showdown con tutti i personaggi della saga. Il problema del libro è però duplice. Da un lato segna un punto fermo, con la morte di Granny Weatherwax già nelle prime pagine; dall'altro sembra una rivisitazione di temi già trattati, come per esempio quelli di Equal Rites declinati in senso opposto. Non so quanto sia stato il reale apporto di Pratchett non tanto nella definizione della storia quanto nel suo svolgimento: ho trovato molte meno battute e una definizione inferiore …

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Having previously read and enjoyed almost all the Discworld books, I approached this one with some trepidation. Would it live up to the rest of the series, or would it be a disappointment, and therefore affect my memory of Discworld as a whole.
While not the funniest of the novels, that award goes to the early ones, it still has some great humour. This is mostly generated by the Nac Mac Feegles - always up for a fight, never up for thinking they provide the comedy and the muscle when it is needed. The story centres around Tiffany and the return of the Elves to our world, but things have changed. No only does Granny Weatherwax die early in the story, but the Discworld has progressed and we have trains.
In many ways it is a story about a young woman (don't dare call her a girl) maturing under difficult …

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