Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett Reviews

I started reading Terry Pratchett's 'Equal Rites' as a break from my college study books at night time before bed. I don't know what made me pick it up really off the bookshelf, I think it was the hocus pocus cover, lol!? The cover says this book cost £5.99 but our copy is old so I think it would be more ...  Read the complete review

Equal rights is the third book in a series of 36.Its about several different stories taking place on you guessed it a disk world. The books I have read so far in the series including this one have been full of humour which I have been looking for a series like this for a long time that mixes humour and science fiction/Fantasy. My only problem ...  Read the complete review

Equal Rites is the third in the Discworld series of books. At the beginning an old wizard, who knows he has only a few minutes to live, journeys to a remote village with a silly name in order to pass on his staff to a deserving recipient. He knows that an eighth son of an eighth son has been born, and these are traditionally sorcerers. Off he goes ...  Read the complete review

There’s nothing I like better than to become engrossed in a good fantasy book, and the one of the very best sets of these fantasy books is the Discworld series. I remember the day I stood in the library looking for something new to read, when the cover of one of these books caught my eye, I picked the book up and started reading the first few ...  Read the complete review

Eskarina Smith received an unusual gift at her birth, the staff of an old, dying wizard. He was under the impression she was the eighth son of an eighth son. She may have the right equipment to be a wizard now, but she hasn’t got the equipment to be a son. Esk grows up in Bad Ass, in the Ramtop mountains of the Discworld. Granny ...  Read the complete review

Eskarina Smith was supposed to be the eight son of an eighth son. This would have made her a wizard. Unfortunately, due to her father's stubbornness and considerable confusion at her birth she still received the wizard’s staff of power. Does that make her a wizard? Well, we all know women can't be wizards don't we? The third novel in ...  Read the complete review

The Discworld can be a funny old place but when all is said and done but it has an awful lot in common with our own world. It may be true that the Discworld has a huge natural supply of magic and, to the best of my knowledge, Earth is not flat, disc shaped or supported on the backs of four giant elephants who, in turn, stand on the back of a space ...  Read the complete review

My Pratchett phase continues. The latest book I’ve finished is Equal Rites – the third Discworld novel and the first foray into the chronicles of the Witches. Perhaps unfortunately for me, I read Carpe Jugulum beforehand – a Pratchett book which is brilliant in every way – so Equal Rites had a lot to live up to and just ...  Read the complete review

This is the third book in the Discworld series, the Discworld is, as its name suggests a flat disk. An idea thought up by the creator when he was in a more imaginative mood than usual. The disc is carried on the back of four elephants that stand on the back of an astrochelonian (giant space turtle to you and me:). It has a strong magical field ...  Read the complete review

It probably wasn’t to be long before someone noticed that magic and the utilisation of magic in the fantasy genre is someone one sided when we look at the sex of those who use it. Wizards are ultimately all powerful, often omnipotent beings whereas women are generally given to witchery with the most powerful ability to impose warts upon an ...  Read the complete review

For me Equal Rites is a kind of turning point in the Discworld series. The first two books were just comic fantasy in a very slapstick, Douglas Adams style - albeit with some very unique imaginative touches. There is magic at every turn, new fairy tale creatures on every page. Basically Pratchett seemed to believe that the key to a great fantasy ...  Read the complete review

As its title implies, Pratchett takes a good humored and often critical look at sexual politics in his third Discworld novel, while at the same time wryly turning his pen to probe the often static and tradition-bound world of academics through a parody of wizardry and sorcerous notions in general. While not as tightly plotted as many of his later ...  Read the complete review

The last thing Drum Billet did before he died, was to pass his wizard's staff to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately the eighth son's father refused to let the midwife speak before this had happened. And she had a really good reason to want to speak. The 'eighth' son was really a daughter. Whoever gets the staff ...  Read the complete review

Most discworld fans end up reading all the books, just for a sense of completeness. This one is not outstanding - it feels like an earlier novel than the excellent Wyrd Sisters, with thin characterisation and fewer funny jokes. However, it's fine unless you read it after the latest novels featuring the witches, such as Carpe Jugulum. If you ...  Read the complete review

Pratchett's witches, first seen in Wyrd Sisters, make an unwelcome return. This time they're dealing with a royal wedding and some other tedious stuff, involving Elves from another dimension or something (if I remember correctly). I don't know why, but I really hate those damn witches. Pratchett seems to do far too much ...  Read the complete review