Overall, I struggled a bit to get through, and am way more excited about all the other Discworld books. I think “waitress in the last chance saloon” is one, though that is possibly not from this book. The Lady! One of my favourite recurring deities. Brilliant stuff, though probably enormously frustrating when you couldn’t just buy the second one straightaway. I actually love the ending, with everyone just falling of the Disc. We never go to the Wyrmberg ever again do we? That’s kind of sad – I’d like to know how Hrun is doing… Also TP taking the mick out of fantasy names is one of my favourite running jokes. It’s worth noting also that the first Discworld book I ever read was Equal Rites…
Not many women, are there? I think we get more in The Light Fantastic. The Luggage! I love the Luggage! And A’Tuin, who I always forget is weirdly one of my favourite characters. Mana? Does Terry Pratchett ever call magic mana again in a Discworld book? I guess I’ll find out, but it was extremely jarring. I am not usually endeared to useless men in fiction there are too many in real life… Rincewind really just never changes, does he? And yet, an oddly endearing useless man. The same for the Patrician, but just about the characterisation, not the cats. Maybe he hasn’t discovered how much he likes cats yet? I am looking forward to watching that develop. I have now, and the narrative makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE! In that it reads exactly like a game in which the DM is a group of competing deities and the players are clueless and would rather be at home with tea/beer.Įarly Death characterisation is now extremely jarring. When I first read this book, I had never played DnD. But then it is quickly burned down, so that solves that problem. I may drown in them.Įarly Ankh-Morpork is odd, in that way that things that have become familiar are when you go back to their beginnings. How have I never noticed how many there are before? Hundreds. But this one has chapters, and it’s extremely weird.īad puns. My first, horrified thought was “chapters?!” because this is a Discworld book! Why does it have chapters? Part of why I originally fell so hard was because my cunning child self would smile and nod when my parents said I had to stop reading at the next chapter and then just finish the book. In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part… Probably unsuitable if you haven’t read the book.ĪLSO, a possibly tricky question: should Strata be involved in a Discworld readalong, and if so, when?
I though I’d call it a readalong, because it won’t precisely be reviews: more just the whatever popped into my head while re-reading, edited to be a bit more coherent.
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