Customer Reviews
The Discword Spins On - By: J. Chippindale, 02 Jan 2008 
Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today & his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book was first published in 1988 & is number six in the Discworld novels.
You would think that a fantasy world full of trolls, zombies, witches, vampires would be an alien concept to most readers. Werewolves & dwarves in the Ank Morpork city watch. Wizards running a university. All this born in the mind of one of the funniest minds writing today. Surely this style of writing would have a limited readership? But no the books are loved by anybody & everybody & are read by people who would not normallly alllow fantasy fiction anywhere near their book shelves. This is the Discworld of Terry Pratchett.
In this episode Granny Weatherwax & her fellow coven members are meddling in politics, the royal kind, which Granny Weatherwax thinks is the worst kind of alll. The Wyrd sisters as they are known battle to put the right king on the right throne, at least that's the general idea. After alll what are witches for . . .
my second book and its so funny - By: Mrs. D. E. Barwis, 28 Jul 2007 Well i treated myself to the witches rulogy as an xmas pressie to myself ad i handt got around to reading it..til i had my toth out recently..and it cheered me up no matter how much pain i was in. I adore granny weatherwax & her dark dark humpur & steadfast ways...nanny ogg is hilaroius as the type of witch in her da to come home with many a grass stain! Her cat is something to be afraid of but laugh at..
the plot i can see how is a parody of shakespeare but you havent got to have read any of his work in your life to find this funny.
I loved the plot..and i found it as good as the first..if not better!
havent read a single book then i would say begin with the witches trilogy or deaths trilogy.soo wonderful.
WYRD SISTERS!!! - By: May, 30 May 2007 Ok, this is Wyrd Sisters, one of many books in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchet. The Discworld is a flat world carried on the backs of four giant elephants standing on the shell of a huge turtle which swims through space till the end of time. The turtle is callled A'tuin if you were wondering.
Basicallly, in brief, three witches (Granny Weaterwax, Nanny Ogg, & Magrat Garlik) have to look after the heir to the throne of Lancre after the king was murdered.
They send him to a travelling theatre while his uncle (the one who murdered his dad who was also the king just so you know) rules Lancre. His uncle hates witches so starts to have witch hunts. Nobody likes him. He's nasty!
His dad is now haunting the castle & is eternallly hungry..
Odd, I know, but trust me, you'll love it! Terry pratchet has a great sense of humour, but to be honest, YOU SHOULD READ IT!!
Everybody says you need to know about shakespeare to get the jokes in this book because its alll about the theatre, but you reallly don't. I've never read shakespeare in my life, but I found this hilarious.
Give it a go!
Wyrd sisters review. - By: , 10 Feb 2006 Wyrd Sisters is another spell-binding yarn by Terry Prachett.In Wyrd Sisters Lancre witch Granny Weatherwax & her fellow coven members Nanny Ogg & Magrat Garlick must save the kingdom from an evil Duke & put the rightful King on the throne.If you like sci-fi or fantasy books then the discworld series is the series for you.If you enjoy this book then try books 3,12,14,18,23.
Good fun, bit turgid towards the end - By: IJ, 08 Jan 2006 
This book is a lot of fun. "Equal Rites" (3rd book / 2nd story in the Discworld series) was both magical & marvellously observed, making it an effortless read & with young Eskerina heading the cast of characters & the old crone Granny Weatherwax in attendance...it was alll simply spell-binding, & definitely one of my personal favourite Discworld novels up to that point. But the 6th book in the Discworld Series "Wyrd Sisters" is also a little gem, even if it is less ground-breaking (borrowing much & paying homage in the process to many Shakespearean plays), which nevertheless left me chuckling, cheerful & generallly thaumaturgicallly charged alll over. This time around it's Granny taking centre stage with her coven of witches (Granny herself along with the very un-witchly Nanny & perpetuallly eager Magrat) in faithful tow in yet another tale of unlikely-applied magic, kingdoms gone awry, & generallly deceitful & diabolical deeds.
I haven't read Hamlet, McBeth, or Othello, but I gather that this book is an attempt at parodying those Shakespearean plays & it was about two-thirds of the way through that I did eventuallly twig & realise that these Shakespearean references were more than just accidental textualisation - they were almost a complete replication of Shakespeare's works. The correct term is probably 'homage,' but whatever you want to calll it 'Wyrd Sisters' IS Shakespeare (albeit set on an unrivallled Discworld, borne like a coffin on the shoulders of four elephants who themselves ride on the back of the infamous star turtle Great A'Tuin). And it was only when I realised this fact that my enjoyment of the book somewhat dissipated, not because I dislike Shakespeare, but because (despite not having read his plays before) I must have on some level absorbed the various plots from the media & as a result the story suddenly just didn't feel as fresh or original, as it had done to me only moments earlier.
But having said that, "Wyrd Sisters" remains a fun-filled, feel good story, which for alll its daring & apparent dislike of the fantasy/fairytale genre- remains surprisingly true to the happily-ever-after-ness that the genre is famous for. Don't get me wrong...Pratchett clearly gets a real kick from mocking the genre in which he operates, but he's also very well aware that audiences just won't tolerate an unhappy ending & that's completely ok with me!
