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Summary: DULLSville ZERO STARS
Review: Strata & The Colour of Magic were beautifully funny and I highly recommend them. BUT everything after those first two in the discworld series is trash. Too stupid. Redundant. Like Monte Python or The 3 Stooges. Slap stick. Not funny at all.IT'S LIKE THE BOOKS BEAT THEMSELVES TO DEATH! I am quitting the discworld series and going on to try some of his other works.
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Summary: delightful!
Review: For a light read, this book is surprisingly thorough in characterization, and besides that, absolutely hilarious. While the plot isn't the most original (girl must prove her magical skill to a bunch of male chauvinists in order to study to be a wizard) the presentation is satisfying. This book delievers the tradition elements where it needs it, and adds refreshing twists, too, mainly by telling a large part of the story through the eyes of a well-meaning older witch, Granny Weatherwax. You can't help but love every character in this book. A relaxing, fun ride!
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Summary: Terry Pratchett=what do you expect!
Review: This was the third of the Terry Pratchett books that I have read and it is totally awesome! I think that people like Roald Dahl should be jealous and bow down to the mighty Terry Pratchett and I think he deserves awards for the content in his books. I think that everybody in the world should at least one of his books and maybe if they read 'Equal Rites' everyone would have the same opinion as me. Equal Rites is the best book I have ever read as is 'The Colour of Magic'.
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Summary: First & best so far
Review: This was the 1st Pratchett book I EVER bought and read VOLUNTARILY. Note the 'voluntarily'. It takes a great author and a great book to make ME actually spend money on a book. Since I read that book, Granny has become my favourite character on the entire disc (well, joint with Death), and I have BOUGHT AND READ her continuing adventures in Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies all becuase of this book. Only one thing - when can we see the return of Esk?
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Summary: Sorry to rate it so low but I expected more from Pratchett
Review: well I've read many of his books before and I do beleive that he is a great author. His stories are funny, interesting and, I'm sure many people would agree, smart. But this one in particular kind of drags on and unlike his other works that I've read it doesn't have as much spontenaity (spontenaiety?) as I've come to expect. Still had this been a budding author it would have merited 4 and a half stars but since it is Terry Pratchett he has a higher standard to live up to (sorry but you brought it on yourself Terry). Still if you enjoy reading discworld novels then get it. I have it and don't regret paying for it because it helps build up on the discworld experience. I guess that the only reason that this novel is not as high class as his others may be because it is only his third of the series (it is the third isn't it?) anyway still a good book but not his best work. recomended but only slightly to non-Pratchett fans
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Summary: Disappointing for Pratchett.
Review: Having previously read the magnificent books The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic, I expected great things of Equal Rites. However, this book has one main fault: Granny bloody Weatherwax. Although she is a very funny character at times, Equal Rites focuses too much upon her and seems to be forgetting (for most of this book) other characters, apart from Esk. I say that this book is dissapointing, but were this written by any author other than Pratchett, it would be regarded as a masterpiece. Sorry, but Terry is such a good author that he has to reach a very high standard if he wants to equal the brilliance of other novels such as Mort or The Light Fantastic.
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Summary: Another great Terry Pratchett Novel
Review: Equal Rites (A Discworld novel)By Terry Pratchett Henrik Lind Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 and is still not dead. This is the way he is introduced in most of his books and I hope that he will be for a long time. He is one of my favorite writers in any genre. He started working as a journalist in 1965 and had many different journalistic task`s before joining the central electricity generating board. There he were press officer for four power plants. All this came to an end in 1987 when it was obvius that the discworld series was becoming so popular that he could no longer do both things. And I am positive that there are millions of fans around the world that is very grateful for his decision. A short explenation of The discworld novels: Terry Prattchet has written 23 or 24 novels about the discworld, Equal Rites being the third. Each book is over four hundred pages so it is an awful lot of text. While it is not necessary to read them in the "right" order, it sure helps and it makes you appreciate them more. Each book picks a general occurence in our society. Then twists it, clarifies it, at the same time as it makes it even more complex. This could be anything, often though it is about pejudices that are fairly common. For example westerners view on the east in "Interesting Times". He really hits the right spots and while he do not say they are wrong he shows them in a way that really makes you think about your own views. And he does this in a very humouristic way. In other books he makes fun of the music industry or Motion picture industry. Or any other thing that he finds extremely stupid, and it is a big risk you do to after reading them. I think you get the general idea. Terry Pratchett mocks most of humanity, our customs our culture and our believs among other things. And at his arsenal he has a mind as sharp as the scythe of death, (who by the way is one of his favorite characters), armed to the teeth with sarcasm, irony and last but not least a humour that makes you laugh your *-* of, he lets us experience the marvels of the discworld. A word of advice for all those who are about to read anything by Terry Pratchet. Do not get hung up on the plot or on the obvius things or you will miss the essentials. Equal Rites. The book begins with a despription of the discworld. As hinted the world is not round, it is flat. It does however have some other unique features not found anywhere else in the multiverse. In the empty space between stars swims a giant turtle, ten thousand miles across. This is great A`tuin, the world turtle, on it`s back stands four enormous elephants which hold up the disc on which our adventure takes place. The Discworld, it is as you might have guessed not very like the world you and I know. First it is a highly magical world, which makes it very unpredictable. Second it is what You might call a fantasy world, a little medieval. It has the standard citizens that you might find in such a world. Dwarves, trolls, elves, dragons and wisards. Although this is not of great importance to our story, (except for the wizard part maybe), it might be good to know. The story begins a stormy night. As we zoom in we see something red struggling against the wind. Now we can see that it is a wizard, partly because of the pointy hat and the robe and partly for the fact that the raindrops stopped several feet around him and they where oozing. This is Drum Billet, a wizard on his last journey. Powerful wizardry comes by heritage and Drum was to found someone to take over his wizard staff and continue were he left out. The most potent wizard material is a eigth son of a eight son and it was that Drum Billet was out to find, not exactly find maybe, wizard don`t go looking for things that they had not allready found. Drum fullfilles his quest and hands over his staff to what he believes is the eight son of a eight son. Well even the greatest wizards do misstakes, when he foumd out that the eight son of the eight son really was a daughter it was to late, the staff had been passed along and death knocked on the door to get Drum, He greeted everyone and whent about his business. This might very well have been the end to this story if it was not for Granny Weatherwax the local whitch who was convinced that girls can not be wizards, I mean, who has ever heard of a girl being a wizard? So firm in mind, and believe me Granny weatherwax is firm in mind, she could have her will with most mountains. She took the girl the edjucate her as a whitch. Needless to say this do not work out and Eskarina, or Esk for short, showed every sign of being a wizard of quite some magnitude. Worried that Esk should hurt herself or someone else Granny decided that it maybe was better if she got real wizard edjucation. Of course she was not accepted at the university. So her granny finds her a job there, just to be near things. To make a long and extremely complex story short. Esk finds out that there is a big danger threatening the world. Creatures from the dungeon dimension seek entrance to the physical world. Esk and a boy named Simon, who his a genius, saves the day and finally Esk is allowed to begin at the university. Voilla!! The end.. and they lived happilly ever after... NOT. Why read this book? As I said, the story is only there as a ground. A thing on wich Prattchet can build the story within the story. I have not really grasped the full meaning of this one yet since I have only read it once. But essentially you could say that there is no thruth but the one we make ourself. And their will be no change without someone doing anything about it, preferably you yourself. We are often treated in the way we deserve, if we are not willing to change things then who are we to complain about it? Last but not least I would like to say that I genuinly envy those who encounter Terry Pratchett.
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Summary: Loads of fun as always!!! I was not dissapointed :)
Review: This was the first Terry Prachett book I read (T.P. we can actually get here), and its GREAT!! It made me read more books of the series. I couldnt stop laughing. Real pageturner. Highly reccomended to annyone who is either a Discworld enthousiast or totaly Green. Thank you for recommending this book to me :). I really loved Granny Weatherwax in this one but i have seen her better so as far as im concerned that was the only drawback.People READ THIS BOOK. I think I will read it a second time soon :o) and easily.
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Summary: A classic.
Review: One of the first Terry Pratchett books I read, Equal Rites somehow manages to drag together hilarious Pratchett-style writing with everyday equality issues. Surely no easy task?! After all, everyone knows women can't be wizards, right? Not in this novel! A young girl is destined for greatness, and all because a wizard made a teensy-weensy mistake.... Well, it's definitely an interesting read! One I can read again and again and again.
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Summary: A conquering novel in the line of equality for all!
Review: The eighth son of an eighth son is on a mission to become the first female wizard in Ankh Morpork because the wizard who brought the child onto the Disc did not bother to check if it was a boy or a girl. The wizard tld the parents that the child was to become a wizard and so the parents had to follow this rule. It is a great revolutionary novel which introduces the reader to both equality and Terry Practhett.
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