I've Never Read Discworld

Book 30: The Wee Free Men


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“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!” Twa Northern Irishmen introduce Discworld readers tae their terrible language skills but also the wonders o Nutt's Corner, PJ's fryin pan, an Andy's Tree Time. Got a problem wi thon? I'trade Pterry gives us oor first Tiffany Aching book fou o tragic tales, dreams an dromes, observations o people an explorations o visual storytellin. An aw as racially abusin us throuch stereotypes. This gets us rilit up tae talk drink an ficht aboot royalty, creative writing, an families versus the wold.00:00:00 Overview and First Impressions00:13:44 Part 1: Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.00:33:37 Part 2: It was very unusual for Granny Aching to say more than a sentence. She used words as if they cost money.00:49:10 Part 3: ‘Them as can do, has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.’01:10:00 Part 4: Tiffany put down the butter paddles and turned around.01:22:50 Favourite scenes and quotesBig thanks to our patrons: Sonia Andree, Richard Huang, Andrew Bolster, Donal Fallon, Alex C., Amanda Rodriguez, Shell, Dave Cromie, Matt Saunders, Alan Rowell, Benjamin Stone, Arsalan Haider Ali and particularly Ian Lawther who also goes halvers on our Zoom bill.Shout-out to our social media champions Ben and Elizabeth of the Pratchat Podcast; David Curtis and Mike AKA JarrakStuff to check outThe very industrious  @AndrewLuke YouTube channelPJ Hart's small sweet  @outboundlight YouTube channelAndy's Patreon (early access!) https://patreon.com/andyluke PJ's 'The Divil's Own' (BBC Sounds/Illumination podcast) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhg4Andy's Coastlines After Dark https://books2read.com/coastlinesafterdark

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