The Wee Free Men by Terry PratchettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my first Terry Pratchett. I loved it for the first half; the clever language, the fresh way of looking at things. But then the main character fell into the proverbial rabbit hole and it all got too Narnia-Wrinkle-in-Time hallucinatory. It would have been fine to dip into the LSD but Pratchett stayed there too long for my tastes; it kept going. And going. And is it still going? What? That's not the denouement of the winter-queen-dream-world? Crap.
He won me back in the last few chapters, though. And now I'm wondering if all of his books are more like the first third of this one or like the second third; here's hoping the it's the first.
My kid will probably love it; someday. But he needs to develop a little more intellectual focus first. And that's saying something.
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