Read this also, although not a Discworld fan, I love anything Gaiman
I am ashamed to admit that I had never read anything by Terry Pratchett, although he had written something like 70 books before his very recent death, so I looked up his oeuvre, and discovered this little beauty written with Neil Gaiman back before he (Pratchett) started his Discworld sprawling series.
Pratchett and Gaiman are both fantasy authors of the first water, so I figured it was worth a read, and wowser, was I right. If fantasy fries your enchiladas, you will love this book.
The tag on this title is The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. As we learn in the book, ‘nice’ is used in the old sense of ‘precise’. Not ‘nice’ in the sense of, well, nice, because the book is all about the End of the World, Armageddon, the Apocalypse, which is definitely not nice in the modern sense.
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Thoughts of The Brothers Karamuttsov 