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Its a good book, i've read and re-read it (like all my discworld books) about 20 times. I agree, teatime is a very scary and strange character. Does anyone think that he'll be in any other discworld books? He's got deaths sword, it can cut through anything, he would be the ultimate thief.
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Um, Teatime died... I don't think Pterry intends to set any stories in the afterlife. |
did he? i was sure that the wizards revived him...... |
As we appear to have gone far beyond mere MINOR spoilers at this point, I feel I can say: Yep, they did, but then good 'ol Susan and her Poker did for him. Remember the boy finding his false eye in the fireplace? "It's my best marble......it seems to move in a different way...."
*Shudders*
Also, I think Teatime was TOO scary to appear again, don't you? After all, Pratchett is in the humorous fantasy business, and Teatime is simply a character of nightmares.
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I agree with Teatime being a much scarier character than Carcer, they were both psychotic and clever, but Teatime actually considered it. He planned his acts, whereas Carcer seemed to live more in the moment - he had some planning (i.e. lots of knives), but the fact that Teatime would actually sit down and think about how he would kill the Hogfather and Death is a whole different level.
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....hell yeah. Carcer may always have had another knife, but let's remember Teatime was a trained assassin. Even if they did regret training him afterwards...
The book did have it's beautiful bits though, most notably with Death questioning those Christmas traditions he didn't agree with: he saved the Poor Little Match Girl, and told King Wenceslas to piss off, leave the poor wood-gatherer bloke in peace and get his charity-kicks elsewhere. Hear hear.