"'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre'" Observer "'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatalogically-minded and J.R.R Tolkein on speed... This total mess of- I suppose- a novel, is the joyous outcome'" Daily Telegraph "'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own'" The Sunday Times "'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'" Independent "'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'" Guardian
