Nation by Terry Pratchett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Nation
Book Review: Funny, Funny Book!
Summary: 4 Stars
Book Review: Great read for kids...
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is a great read for kids, ages 8 to 12, but NOT nearly as enthralling as any of Pratchett's Discworld books. I was sort of disappointed, until I realized that this was the exact target audience of the book. An okay read, however---killed an afternoon.Book Review: Heartachingly beautiful - 5 stars++++++
Summary: 5 Stars
Pratchett is the best. This wonderful book can be read on a number of levels, (although you'll be disappointed if you expect the usual puns and footnotes). Instead of light and bubbly, this book is sad and quiet and deep. This book has a soul.Book Review: I laughed, I cried and I thought.
Summary: 5 Stars
What can be said about Nation that hasn't been said a thousand times? Pratchett is a magician.
In this world- so much like our own- we are told a story about life and death, grief and absolution, pigs and sailors, and everything else. I laughed at the Tree Climbing Octopi, the Parrot and the not-so-subtle jabs at British Imperialism. I cried when Mau sent the dogs into the Dark Water and Daphne thinking about the little coffin on top of the big one. And I thought; about what it means to be alive, tradition, faith and what it means to be a Nation.
It doesn't have a happy ending, or a sad ending. It has the right ending.
It's a book I would recommend to anyone. Don't let the colorful cover art and the YA rating steer you away. This is a book that everyone, no matter how old, will love.
Book Review: If you only read one non-Discworld Pratchett novel...this should be it.
Summary: 4 Stars
Terry Pratchett's latest novel, Nation, is his equivalent to Douglas Adams'
Last Chance to See . I'm sure Mr. Pratchett himself would not consider that to be true, but the flavor is similar. True, Pratchett's book is fiction, and Adams' is biography, but both books give the reader a sense of the true philosophical nature of the author in question.
If I were restricted to one book per author to keep in my library, I would choose Nation for Terry Pratchett.