Equal Rites Review! | Discworld Witches #1
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- My review of Equal Rites, the first book in the Witches sub-series of Discworld by Terry Pratchett. A hilarious but heartfelt story of expectation, challenging the status quo, gender roles, and the nature of the universe. Also: squinting!
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Petition for longer reviews of the Discworld books. Pretty please ❤️
They get longer as the books get longer. My Watch book reviews are much longer! I have way more to say about Wyrd Sisters as well
I saw the hat in the thumbnail and immediately became so happy. Haha. My favorite thing about Granny is that she’s genuinely magical. Powerful, even. Yet she’s out here just giving people herbs and Headology.
I enjoy Equal Rites every time I read it. I think the Disc World books are such classics. Terry Pratchett was so talented, and is truly missed. I always enjoy watching your reviews of his books. Thank you.
Thank you for watching! Pratchett was such a special kind of genius.
So lovely to hear you talk about Discworld - makes me happy
Completed ‘The Light Fantastic’ this weekend. They didn’t have ‘Mort’ or ‘Guards Guards’ at my local book store so I went ahead and grabbed ‘Equal Rites.’ So I guess I’ll continue the series in order. I do like the subtle, dry humor. I like reading these as I’m reading darker fantasy like ‘Reapers Gale.’
I also feel that this concept of Granny teaching a protegy became the Tiffany series (which is good Allen!😉😆) as there is a lot of the witchcraft work explored and I love it.
I had so much fun with this book and I loved it. I have read the 1st 3 books and I can't wait to read Mort. Thanks for reviewing these. More people need to.
I'm definitely reviewing them all as I'm re-reading them! I hope you love Mort!
I actually liked Equal Rites more than Guards, Guards but Men at Arms is one of my current favorites along with Going Postal. I’m currently reading Witches Abroad and really enjoying it.
It's so nice to hear someone who also loves Pratchett talk through the series because - you get it! But, it's also wonderful to see how many commentors are new to the series and finding that love. Discworld is probably the series that is hardest to describe to someone; even if they're already fantasy readers, there's that extra Pratchett twist that often leaves them giving me a blank stare when I try to convince them to give it a shot.
Yes, it's always hard to describe discworld to first time readers because it's hard to describe without sounding like they're dumb or fanciful when they're really very deep and insightful.
i always love hearing you talk about pratchett books. makes me want to try again with discworld
Yessssss read better ones!!
YES! very excited to see this review. I started discworld because of you and have only read three so far (Mort, Equal Rites, and Wyrd Sisters in that order). I am going to start Guards Guards next in your honor! I am officially in love with Prarchett's books. Really enjoyed Equal Rites and gave it the same rating as you. I think I definitely enjoyed this more than Mort but only by a tiny bit because I loved the metaphysical elements you talked about a lot (Wyrd Sisters is probably my favorite of the very very few that I've read haha). Thanks for the review!! ♥
Yay, thank you! Wyrd Sisters is phenomenal.
The Henry VIII joke got me so hard when I first read this book 😂 I’m still looking forward to read more in discworld as I’ve only read this one, color of magic and light fantastic. Love that squinting
Hahaha thanks! And yes, such a great joke! Read more of them now! 😃😃😃
The first two books seemed more of a short story collection that got mashed up into a pair of novels, this is more the real 'first novel' even being the third. For me it still holds up, as do most of them, because the themes he has woven through the books are still perfectly relevant. I agree with your least favourite, mine was Pyramids, I think I have only read that one once.
Have you read Strata? The prototypical discworld, sort of, appears in that one.
p.s. Apropos of nothing, I found Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City in my local shop this morning and picked it up, hoping for good things. :-)
Had I not already read this book your squinting would have convinced to do so immediately 😂
Great review, Allen! I agree, this book is much better than the first two Discworld novels (although I quite enjoyed them as well).
Looking forward to any future Discworld discussion on your channel!
Yes, I know! It feels more of what Discworld will become than the first two. Plus, Granny > Rincewind forever.
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Yes, completely agree.
Btw, Allen, did you know that you were the one who ultimately convinced me to start reading Discworld? I think it was the video about your recommended Discworld entry points that did the trick. (I had the series on my radar before, and at some point, I had read half of The Colour of Magic without really getting it. But your enthusiasm for the rest of the series made me pick it up again and now I love it.) So although it's a bit late: Thank you! :)
The thing I remember about the sexism over witches and wizards is that it wasn’t just one way, wizards forbidding females from being wizards and males from being witches but it was also witches as well holding up this idea. They both look at the other with a certain amount of respect but still hold this traditional notion of their particular institutions
It took a lot of first hand knowledge of Esk’s wizard’s magic for Granny Weatherwax to finally give in to this idea and probably only for Esk.
Love this book!
OMG the new audiobook of this, is freaking amazing. Granny sounds just I imagined she might. And I enjoyed this way more than the first time I read it.
Am I hyped for more Disc world reviews??? Yes I am!!!
Love Granny Weatherwax!
That clip from Sword in the Stone made me choke on my water 😂😂😂
"I'm not to Pyramids yet, so we'll see" 😂
Equal Rites is one of the only two Discworld books I have read. Enjoyed it very much
Nice! Read some more!!
*deepens voice* "That's a play on words." ROFL! I love you Allen.
Hahahahah thank you Lezlie 😛
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria IT'S A PUNE
The thumbnail by the way is perfection😆
Ooo this premise sounds very cool! 😊
It's very fun. READ IT 😛
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria hahaha yes, I must eventually try Discworld 😆
This Pratchett person sounds interesting. You should read more of his books.
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Absolutely agree and my brain does - for some reason when i read Wryd Sisters and beyond my brain uses the amazing Paul Kidby's art as Weatherwax as the spirit of her shines out of those pictures. But when reading equal rites in my head i saw her as short not tall and stooping rather than having a back ridiculously straight. These images remained that way on my re-read last year despite a massive gap! 😆
The witch who I can't recall reminds me of a mix of Ogg and (I need to re-read) but possibly Mrs Cake - Agua's landlady who was psychic? But this book does seem full of prototypes of what the world turned into. And I am glad once Pratchett had a better grasp of what he wanted to do he drew a line under the old and just wrote the new rather than trying to force things in line. It's like we got to see published his notebooks and plans in book form.
This sounds really great Allen. I’ll eventually get to the witches after the Watch and Death books.
I love the dynamic between the three witches in the other books.
The first 2 books are a humorous tribute to Fantasy. You see appearances of most of the known Fantasy characters in the books (Conan, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Cthulu, Pern dragons? are the ones I remember of the top of my head). Using Discworld to write about some real world subject matter and expressing his ideas about it did start with Equal Rites.
Moving Pictures must have been written after the disastrous attempt at planing a movie adaptation of Mort by some Hollywood group or other.
hahahahhaha that's almost certainly true about Mort and you can definitely see what he was trying to do with the first two books
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria you heard about the first movie deal for Mort? That was a funny story, though I bet at the time it must have been frustrating. I remember Pterry saying something about the fact that, after that experience, he knew there were human beings and then there were Hollywood producers.....
This was really interesting - thanks!
This review was so good, Allen! I love how you described the gender issues between witches to wizards and the “just because” mentality. Cognitive dissonance at its finest (or dumbest). Pratchett was so clever in the way he was able to weave that into a fantasy book.
I love the deft way Pratchett handles themes in general. This one was so much more fun than I remember it being and it's very relevant to our times and the lives of my students where they are also people who do and believe things because "that's just how it is" lol
I agree with you, it's a good book, but still a prototype/experiment. I usually think of Wyrd Sisters as the first Witches book, but that's just my idea :)
No I agree with that!
I enjoyed it but I wanted more Granny Weatherwax so I'm excited to read the rest, dunno if that'll be the 1st Discworld sub-series I follow to the end but I look forward to reading more.
Completely agree. Wyrd Sister is brimming with Granny! It's fantastic.
I ATE'NT DED
Nice vid! I really liked Equal Rites, maybe what I didn't like, which isn't actually in the book, is that it feels like nothing changes after it... like, they "change" the rules, so that girls can also be magicians. However, as far as I've read, there doesn't seem to be female wizards on the following books. And I don't think we see Esk until the Tiffany aching novels (I read Tiffany first, so I dunno if she appears in previous books). So, that's what I missed, a change after the book. But i loved it and was so happy to see the "begginings" of Esme, as I had read about her in the Tiffany saga.
That's an excellent point! I wonder why we didn't see a female wizard at the University in any of the other books or if Cutangle went back on his word and swapped it back
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Yes, but maybe I'm more intrigued by why Terry wanted to earese this. I won't say he wanted to leave away the themes to not evoke controversy (quite the contrary, and I'm so glad he touched on this themes), I think he was still experimenting with his world and it was actually normal some things he would change. And btw, thanks for this reviews and your answers! I love discussing and hearing opinions about Discworld.
I loved “Equal Rites”….I mean she’s the first female Wizard, from a village called Bad Ass lol.
I was disappointed to not see her in the next witches book. I never tried to read ahead or get info from the internet, though towards the end of my discworld read, I did get some small spoilers, so it was a surprise. I thought we’d loose Wheatherwax and continue with Esk!
The Unseen University still was a cut throat place. That didn’t change till “Moving Pictures”. So I could see how that story line wouldn’t have made sense going forward. It makes more sense near the end of the whole series.
I had a lot of fun with this one. Its very on the nose but in a way that made me chuckle. I need to figure out how to get in the mood for the satire fantasy he does cause its been like 3-4 years since I picked up a discworld book. I like them but its rarely the subgenre of fantasy I reach for
They're so short! I can recommend one for any mood!
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Ahh but see I have read Terry when I am not in the mood and its a BAD idea lol
No, you tell me what mood you're in and I'll give you one perfect for your mood! 😃😃😃😃😃
Now you make me want to read this when I haven't read City Watch (but own the first 2) nor Death series (and own all). 🤣
You should read City Watch. 😛
The squinting!!!!
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I find this one to be the best entrance to discworld after guards guards
I'd agree this is a good place and intro. It starts small and focuses on a couple characters. I think the more abstract aspects are harder to grasp for some than just 'books are magic' from GG, but it's definitely a good place to begin.
I always thought of Wizards and Witches as the same position just different terms depending on the sex
Not sure about real lore but I think wizards are generally thought of as to be learned and taught from books at schools or libraries while witches generally derive their power from the earth.
he catching up on his reviews!!!!
Trying to!
@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria To be fair, it was published when Allen was 5...
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Favorite Discworld book?
Without extensive contemplation, Guards or Hogfather bc of nostalgia purposes.