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Terry Pratchett (in Maskerade) used the number of exclamation points in threatening letters from the villain to gauge his insanity.
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Add in the hilarious sub-plot around Nanny Ogg's cookbook, and Maskerade is one of the funniest Discworld novels I've read to date.
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I can say this: if opera were more like what happened in Maskerade, I'd go more often (or at all).
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The opera book you read is called Maskerade and also not one of his best.
While We're on the Subject of Defining Ourselves Through Cultural Preferences... Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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I'd been rather avoiding this Discworld novel because I feared it would be much the same as Moving Pictures and Maskerade, both of which are essentially one-joke books where the joke is stretched beyond its limits.
August Books 7) Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett nancylebov 2009
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It's not that they're not good, it's just that I don't find myself returning to them as often as I do to ones like Mort and Maskerade.
Book Report: Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett Ulysses 2010
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I absolutely loved “Maskerade,” loosely based on the Phantom of the Opera but with witches and of course, existing in the Discworld which exists somewhere on the back of a turtle or elephants or all of the above … (I can never keep it straight).
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Terry Pratchett hits on all cylinders with Maskerade, a send-up of Opera in it's many forms, Discworld style.
November 2007 2007
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Maskerade continues the rehabilitation of my thinking about the Witches books.
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The previous book, Lords and Ladies was much better than I remembered, and now Maskerade continues that trend, being almost non-stop funny.
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