The Discworld Diaries

[Joel007]

Good review Marky, makes me want to reread it yet again

Hope you enjoy the rest

 

[Marky Lazer]

Day twenty-four:

Continuing The Light...

 

[Lenny]

Could've sworn you were reading Equal Rites, Marky!

 

[Marky Lazer]

Day twenty-six:

Steady progress into Rites.

Could've sworn you were reading Equal Rites, Marky!

Um... you... um... mis-read it, yes. That's it. Shame on you.

 

[Lenny]

Tsss. Maybe I need new glasses, again. Terrible when one so carelessly misreads a word.

 

[Marky Lazer]

Day twenty-eigth:

Didn't do any reading yesterday, but today I prodded along steadily to page 100 of Rites.

 

[Marky Lazer]

Day twenty-nine:

I'm spending more time on writing, and so less time on reading. Basically meaning I'm only around page 135 of Rites.

 

[Marky Lazer]

Day thirty:

According to my calculations, I will have finished Rites on Friday; so a review should see the light early Saturday. Stay stuned.

 

[Joel007]

stuned it is!

 

[Marky Lazer]

I'm not sure about the how manyth day it is, so from now on it will be just dates...

30 June 2007

I have finished Rites (see below) and about to start Mort. That should be a good one; the title promises me lots of the character Death.

 

[Marky Lazer]

The Witch belongs everywhere, but fits nowhere*—a review

Equal Rites is the first Witches book starring, among other witches, Granny Weatherwax...

A Wizard arrives at the silly town called Bad Ass; he’s about to die and wants to channel his powers onto an eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately, the eighth son turns out to be a daughter... As is widely known, women can’t be Wizards (the very idea!), but now a girl got the powers, and... a staff, too. When Granny Weatherwax is reluctantly determined to enroll Eskarina into UnseenUniversity, the mayhem starts...

Rites is again a thoroughly enjoyable read, though personally I find the characters Rincewind and Twoflower (from the first two books) funnier. I can, however, foresee great amusement coming up in the next Witches books. I'm hoping for a continuing strive between the Wizards and the Witches (a very deep well of inspiration, methinks). Death has again a ‘supporting’ role, but to win the award for the third succesive time, he has to beat a newcomer. The librarian of Unseen University: an orangutan...

So, yes. Pratchett did it again. Wroter another amusing book, easy to read, witty and with a fair amount of passages that make you grin, chuckle or snigger.

* except, they fit in the Discworld, of course.

 

[areader]

A friend has been recommending Pratchett for years...so I actually read my way through the lot..and finally got through Wintersmith...any one of his books with the guards or the witches in it is good fun. There's a few Pratchett fansites on the web that do guides to the books as well (which was helpful with Small Gods, which was one of those books that sailed right over my head). Loved Mort. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents was an interesting read...one of his awarded younger reader books that's worth picking up. Wikipedia is a great source of Discworld trivia.

 

[Joel007]

Mort is the book that got one of my friends hooked, Death is great in that one

oh, and if you want to cheat and see any of the jokes you missed out on... The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - Index

 

[Allegra]

May be now it's safe to say - welcome to the club, Marky! The witches books keep getting better so you have plenty of treats ahead.

 

[Marky Lazer]

1 July 2007

I'm now about forty pages into Mort...

 

[Marky Lazer]

5 July 2007

Finished Mort; best Discworld so far. If I can find time I'll write a review, but time's been playing hide and seek lately. And she's damn good at the hiding part!

 

[areader]

I sailed through reading Mort...DEATH CAN BE SO LOVEABLE lol.

 

[HoopyFrood]

DEATH is fantastic, indeed. I can remember at one point, ah, I know, in Mort where Death finds the drowned kittens and gets angry, I said out loud "Ah, Death's so nice!" I think if anyone had overheard me they would have been slightly worried!

Ah, you'll be reading Sourcey soon, then, Marky! That's definitely one of my favourites of the Discworld novels that I've read so far.

 

[Joel007]

I was discussing pTerry's books with some of my friends, so when I said "Death is great!" and they all agreed we got some deeply suspicious looks from the people near us, who quickly moved away.

 

[Allegra]

I wonder what looks I'd get if I say - 'I love Death'! But I do love Death. Death is nice and Death is cool. That's one of the good things about pTerry, his satire is good-hearted and he makes Death a kind Death, though he(Death) tries to be neutral all the time.