A Bright, Sparkling Satire

When the story of William de Worde got underway

it sparkled with mischief AND criticism of society’s

indifference to political matters although demanding

justice for everyone, the New Firm’s Mr Pin stole the  

potato that guaranteed a safe afterlife for Mr Tulip -

 

Then we find Mr Pin’s face on a humorous vegetable

and finally he will be fried while Mr Tulip becomes a

happy woodworm, and William de Worde continued

to fight the puppet masters who want to manipulate

the common people around them; the dwarfs singing

 

Mission songs to save the vampire from himself and

Gaspode the talking dog changed into a pink poodle

called Trixiebelle, the Patrician seeing the advantage

in newspapers to form opinion, a competing Inquirer

making up news like fish falling from above in Quirm

 

It all flows together into a bright, sparkling satire about

snobbery of the upper classes and the fight for freedom

and justice fought by those with integrity while Slant’s

zombie life, the vampire, werewolf and dwarfs add the

respect required for a happy multicultural society….

[Terry Pratchett: “The Truth”]