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'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...' Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera. Where the music matters and where an opera house is being terrorised by a man in evening dress with a white mask, lurking in the shadows, occasionally killing people, and most worryingly, sending little notes, writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks. Opera can do that to a man. In such circumstances, life has obviously reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do...
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Maskerade, Terry Pratchett
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Maskerade
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Terry Pratchett
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0552153230
- ISBN13
- 9780552153232
- Series
- Discworld
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Murders, Science Fantasy, Gifts for men, Comedies, Witches, Satire, Humorous Fantasy, Humorous Sci-Fi, Discworld, Golem, Ankh-Morpork, City watch
- First published
- 1995
- Original title
- Maskerade
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...' Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera. Where the music matters and where an opera house is being terrorised by a man in evening dress with a white mask, lurking in the shadows, occasionally killing people, and most worryingly, sending little notes, writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks. Opera can do that to a man. In such circumstances, life has obviously reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do...