Equal Rites

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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Read by Celia Imrie.

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:55pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

Magic in the Discworld submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 17, 2012, 12:18pm In his third (of now 39) Discworld novel, Sir Terry Pratchett tackles sexism in the workplace and academia in "Equal Rites." The novel begins with a pompous wizard bestowing a blessing on a baby whom he thinks is destined to become a great wizard. He's partially right, but he doesn't listen to the witch who served as the mother's midwife. The midwife is, after all, just a silly woman and what would she know. If he had, he would have realized he blessed a girl... who would one day indeed become a great magician.
Many male authors cannot grasp the problem or reality of sexism, so it is especially gratifying to meet one who does.
I recommend first reading or listening to "The Colour of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic" to learn the background on Unseen University and its pompous yet lazy faculty. Pratchett continues to demonstrate his concern for equal rights in "Monstrous Regiment" and the Tiffany Aching series.
British authors continue to highly Pratchett's novels as among the best of all time. I highly recommend all of them, especially those set on the Discworld.

Early, but a goodie submitted by slugwhisperer on August 24, 2013, 12:29pm Written early on in the development of the Discworld series, "Equal Rites" sheds light on the mysteries of witchcraft and wizardry on the Disc. Highly amusing.