![]() However what makes it worth reading is that it really has the No-nonsense gritty fun of Granny Weatherwax proving she is the best of all the witches! Nothing like a contest of wills to bring out the wickedness. It is an excellent short story around 80 pages. If you have the Nanny Ogg cookbook or want to learn more about the witch trials there are references to it in there. ![]() ![]() These are the trials they have at the Ramtops every year where each witch proves her worth and shows off her magic ability. The Terry Pratchett short novel "All the little fishes" (in case your wondering) takes place on discworld, revolving around Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg and the witch trials. Yes I know it's probably outrageous to the other authors of this book (but I don't care) I bought it for the Terry Pratchett short novel. Pratchett's Discworld series will have you laughing and even on the verge of tears in som Read this story, laugh, and nod your head in agreement to the social commentary that he throws in and I bet you will want to read more. It is a great introduction to his Discworld universe and provides an excellent example of this series. This novella is just as funny and well written as any of his books. The last story is "The Sea and Little Fishes" by Terry Pratchett, another one of my favorite authors. Williams one of my favorite authors, right up there with Stephen King with character development and making the reader feel like you are there with the characters sharing the adventure with them. From reading the "Otherland" series, I consider Mr. I have read his "Otherland" series (over 4000 wonderful pages) and loved every word of it. ![]() I own the "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" series but have not read it yet, though I have been looking forward to reading it. Tad Williams' story is also well written and as great as I had expected. I WILL be reading this series, though I know the series is older than the others in this volume. I have read some of LeGuin's other stories but never any full novels. The second story is Ursula LeGuin's Story "Dragonfly". Yes, it was confusing for the first half of the story since I had no background to this series, but I was intrigued enough to keep reading and ended up enjoying the story. I must say though, that after reading "New Spring" (which he has since expanded on to make a prequel novel) that I am interested in the series and plan on reading the first book to see if I like it. His books are huge to say the least so that has made me shy away from his series. To start off, I have not yet read any of the Jordan "Wheel of Time" series because I have heard so many different opinions about his style of writing. So, I finally ran across this particular volume (Legends Volume 3) in a used book store and when I saw that Terry Pratchett and Tad Williams had contributed novellas, I had to buy it. However, since reading volume 1 of the Legends series, I have become a huge fantasy fan. This volume also got me interested more in the fantasy genre and before this had only read the Stephen R Donaldson series "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" which I still highly recommend as being one of the best fantasy series available. Needless to say, I loved the novella but I also read the other novellas in the volume and quickly became an Orson Scott Card fan and have read the Ender series written by Card because of this volume (I was already a fan of Sci-fi so the Ender series was a logical place to start on Card books). I love the Dark Tower series and when I accidentally stumbled on this story, I was very excited. Many years ago, when this series of three books first came out in paperback, I bought the first volume because of the Stephen King Dark Tower Story.
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