The Folklore of Discworld

I've never been all that interested by books about 'The Science of Star Trek', for example. It seems to me that wherever and to what extent I don't already understand the science involved in Star Trek on the basis of my A-level in Physics and general scientific curiosity, I'm probably never going to get it. I maxed out on science at A-levels. I'm also afraid that the really interesting bits will turn out to have been made up. The Science of Discworld was a different proposition. Since it was based around a fantasy series, and not science fiction, it didn't offer to immediately get mired in the hinterland between my own understanding and things far beyond my ken. I very much enjoyed the first two, and look forward to reading the others some day. It was thus with some anticipation that I picked up an audiobook of The Folklore of Discworld, read by Michael Fenton Stephens.

Sadly - and I've been putting this review off for weeks because I didn't want to say this - I found it lacking. I think this is my own fault in part. The book is an exploration of the Discworld's folklore and an expansion on its sources, where I was hoping for something which more looked at our folklore through the eyes of the Disc, as the Science series did. I also found the repeated suggestion that Earth folklore mirrored the Disc to be disingenuous after the third or fourth repeat.

The Folklore of Discworld is not a bad book, it's just much more a book about the Discworld than it is a book about folklore.