Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

This book is finally off what I now call my guilt list (books which I have started a while ago, but haven't quite gotten around to finishing).

If you haven't been Pterried already, then this book is a good place to start. The book is classic DiscWorld - right from the weird but intelligent wizards, the tyrant Vetinari, the sharp likeable women to some downright loveable characters like the erudite Mr. Nutt, whose name is the least of sources of humour in the book. Like most Pratchett books, the book has something of a plot, but reading the entire tale is what makes the experience completely worth it while making your fellow passengers on a train wonder how a guy who laughs to himself alone, is cleared to travel alone! TP's skills with the language and puns and nods to popular culture are on show. The book is a little more adultish than most of Pratchett's other books and is about football. Makes one wonder whether its writing had anything to do with the Football World Cup in 2010 (the book came out in 2009). Occasionally the tone gets clearly sombre, quite a novelty for Pratchett's books but its all lovely.

I will present my case with the following gem from the book. If they impress you, remember the book has more.

"...Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness.." Definite read