Mass Market Paperback, 417 pages
English language
Published Oct. 4, 2010 by Harper.
The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things—wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime—but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff—or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily meals—the more-than-usually-at-sea UU wizards find themselves in a quandary. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport of foot-the-ball so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. Then they have to learn how to play it. Oh, and on top of that, they must win a football match without using magic.
And the thing about football—the most important thing about football—is that it is never just about football.
Viime vuoden Kiekkomaailma-rykäisystä jäi vielä uupumaan mm. tämä jalkapallotarina. Tavanomaiseen kohellukseen on heitetty mausteeksi Will Huntingia, Beckhamien kaltaisia valmisteita ja sen sellaista. Vähän väsyneen oloinen kokonaisuus, joka kierrättää samoja vitsejä tämän tästä.
Gosh I love Terry Pratchett. This one touched a bit on game design stuff, made me question how simple football really is. Plus all the standard stuff about being a good person that is in every single one of the discworld books.
This 37th book in the Discworld series works well as a standalone novel. It’s an excellent spoof of academia and an anthropological look at British football fans (and pies, and slavery, and romance novels). Very funny and engaging, it provides useful back story for those who want to explore the other 39 Discworld adventures.
Struggling a bit to get into this one..... likely to be a holiday read.
A good cast of new characters introduces football to the world of Discworld but unfortunately they are not as interesting of complicated as some of the other well known characters such as Sam Vimes or Granny Weatherwax. Nonetheless its still a good read and will having you laughing out loud more often than not. Of course as a football fan myself I loved the actual football in the book!
