Maskerade is another wonderfully weird book by Terry Pratchett. A book about the opera and its magic. A book about the power
of masks, the power of belief, and the wonderful cruelness and stupidity of mankind.
The plot takes place on Discworld, one of the endless possibilities of reality, that resembles our world quite a lot. Except for the fact that it''s well, a disc. But then, our world was a disc for quite a few hundreds of years too. And on Discworld, there are dwarfs, and trolls, and wizards, and witches. But then again, there were witches in our world for quite a while too. The fun in Maskarade starts when two witches get bored and decide to go to the opera. And of course, there is a phantom in the opera, and a few murders, and a star, and quite a few starving ballerinas and a stolen treasure, and everything else you could
possibly imagine in a story about the opera. And quite a few things you can not possibly imagine (The Bananana Surprise Soup being just one of them)
Terry Pratchett once again manages to capture all the strange patterns of behavior we somehow start to see as normal, and twists them just the tinniest bit, to make you laugh like you have never laughed before.