Book Review: Discworld 3: 'Equal Rites' by Terry Pratchett

“...she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

Eskarina Smith was gifted at birth with the magic of a wizard. The problem is that there's never been a female wizard before, and a lot of people won't hold with it.

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“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

I actually finished reading Equal Rites some time ago, but I fell into something of another bout of depression and was finding it hard to focus on actually writing up my review.

If you're just joining me, and haven't seen my other Discworld reviews, allow me to restate my goal: I am intending to read through the complete Discworld series (41 books) and review each of them here. 

My other reviews so far include:

1. The Color of Magic
2. The Light Fantastic

A book that's actually about something

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

While The Color of Magic had a lot of fun moments and The Light Fantastic was a fun adventure, neither of them really seemed to

Book Review: Discworld 2: 'The Light Fantastic' by Terry Pratchett

“The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

In two months the world is going to end, or else something bad is going to happen, unless the eight great spells are read at that time. The only problem is that one of those spells is in the head of Rincewind, the Disc's worst wizard, and he's far away, tumbling over the edge of the world.

These pieces of information are given rather early in the second novel of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and help to set the pace and plot for the rest of the book. If you look back at my review of the first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, you'll see that my number one complaint of the previous book was that there wasn't really any overarching plot unifying the story. Right from the onset, The Light Fantastic does

Book Review: Discworld 1: 'The Color of Magic' by Terry Pratchett

“Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

For a very long time, I've wanted to read through the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. I read The Color of Magic (or Colour if you have the British spelling) back in high school, and I've read The Light Fantastic and Guards, Guards somewhere in the intervening time since then. But this is hardly scratching the surface of the 41 book saga that is the Discworld series. So, I've started back from the beginning by reading through The Color of Magic once more (since it's been such a long time since I read it originally).