Equal Rites

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Call Number: Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry, Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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A dying wizard hopes to pass his wisdom on to the eighth son of an eighth son, but when the child comes out female, the future of magic could be in jeopardy.

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:49pm 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.

Equal Rights in Magical Rites submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 16, 2012, 1:39pm 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 "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.

discworld submitted by unknown on August 10, 2013, 10:15pm This is the third book in Pratchett's "Discworld" series and the first one I read more than ten years ago. Since then, Pratchett has gotten steadily better as a writer; his work, generally speaking, has gotten tighter and funnier at the same time that it shows more depth. Those of you who first encountered the Discworld later in the series will probably view Equal Rites as a less impressive effort. It is, after all, difficult to go back to the earlier work of an author whose recent books have given us such high expectations.

This is a shame, because unlike the first two books in the series, Equal Rites holds up fairly well on a second reading. The plot moves a little slowly in places, but the characterizations are rich and the story enjoyable. Gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) lampooning the trappings of Fantasy novels, Pratchett gives us a humorous and touching adventure that I found quite satisfying.

Though all of the books in the series can pretty much stand on their own with regards to both plot and character, there is something to be said for reading them in order. The reader gets to follow along with the author as an entire fictitious world materializes in his mind. I can't help but feel that the best time to meet a character is the first time he's presented to the reader, as is Granny Weatherwax in this book. Encountering her again in Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad is only that much more enjoyable.

I heartily recommend Equal Rites as an introduction to the Discworld. Then, I suggest you waste no time in finding Mort for an encore.

Read it again. submitted by slugwhisperer on July 18, 2019, 9:06am Each time I reread, I discover something new about the Discworld universe.

Skip it and move to the next in the series. submitted by AngelaA2 on August 14, 2020, 9:19pm I think that there are only 2 kinds of Terry Pratchett books - AWESOME books and meh books. Both have subplots, awesome language, British humor etc. - but the AWESOME BOOKS outshine the MEH books by about a 1000 times.

This is the first of the Witches Series in Discworld - and MEH - skip it and go to the next in the witches series.

Do yourself a favor and look up "Recommended Reading Order" on the interwebs - AND find the sub-plot you like. I like the the Nightwatch, the Witches, Tiffany Aching, Industrial Revolution.