I don't have Mort at this time, so unless I get it from the library, I will wait a bit until I can acquire Mort. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

For seven years Granny Weatherwax, who is also a witch, keeps a keen eye on the child, named Eskarina, for any signs of magic. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. I firmly believe that Equal Rites is the best book to start with if you've never read Terry Pratchett or Discworld. The bad points can be forgiven in retrospect: it was his third and the books that follow just get better and better.She then decides to be both, a witch and a wizard, just like many girls/women who want to do it all. Giggle, I am just thinking about getting some six packs, self distilled booze ( I hope I don´t get temporarily blind again), the guns and the boys to shoot at whatever we find out in the woods, who cares about, yolo. Equal Rites’ by Terry Pratchett was originally published in 1987 and is Book 3 of The Discworld series and the first to feature the Witches. En esta tercera entrega de Mundodisco seguimos a Eskarina, una joven que ha nacido destinada a ser una.

Eskarina’s proper place is at the Unseen University, but they don't admit girls, on the premise they cannot be wizards. In the Discworld, men are wizards and women are witches – at least that is how it has been up to the point when young Eskarina Smith sort of becomes – both. It sounds like this sort of thing is more common in later books, so I find it interesting that he changed up the style so early on in the series. It's a smaller book and certainly doesn't "wow" the reader, but it has some interesting concepts that I have yet to see delved into in fantasy novels - while maintaining a humorous tone. Granny Weatherwax, what more needs to be said for one of the cornerstones of the Discworld who makes her first appearance in Equal Rites.

h this female reader swung back 'n forth SO often that neither of us could arrive at a place of relaxation. This was lovely, very different from any other Discworld novel I've read - more charming and less hectic. Don´t get me wrong, I instrumentalize anything to fit my agenda and continually misuse and wantonly misinterpret the code of objective reviewing, you should have already get used to it if this is not my first review drivel you read, but I at least don´t breed new prejudices.

I was regularly unsure of whether it was a character or the narrator talking because she read them all in exactly the same way. Another fabulous reread in the Witches Discworld series by the terrific Terry Pratchett who here takes on the issue of gender equality, where witches are witches and well, wizards are wizards. When these appear, Granny starts to train her in witchcraft and later they travel to the city of Ankh Morpork to seek entrance for Eskarina into the Unseen University, despite the fact that the wizards are adamant that only men can be wizards.I do my best -- French fries can't exist on Discworld, for example -- but I think 'gypsies' is allowable. The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son.