Reception
A Hat Full of Sky has been described as “compelling and hilarious,” as well as "finely tuned" by Audiofile. Terry Pratchett “gives a clear nuance to characters” This book is a piece of “top notch writing,” and it is “definitely worth your attention.” The Wee Free Men have been received as “brave, loyal, strong and funny.” Mr. Pratchett “isn’t afraid to detour into biting satire,” and his writing is “achingly beautiful.” The storyline is “believable and convincing bringing down to the grass roots level.” The book has been described as an “art form” and there is “seldom anything that can beat it.” Although the majority of critics receive this book positively, the Washington Post says that this book is “frustratingly sloppy.” They go on to say “it doesn’t feel as if Tiffany has earned her victory, or as if Pratchett is doing justice to his inquisitive young heroine.”
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)