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In equal rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of a eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late.
Començar 2021 amb Pratchett ha estat la millor decisió.
Em sembla impressionant lo rellevant que segueix sent una novela com aquesta escrita als anys 80. I em reafirmo en que el català li senta molt bé (sense poder comparar gaire la traducció es excelent).
Que pasaria si els mags fossin dones? Eskarina revoluciona el mon de la magia en una novela curta plena de reflexions i conceptes com la closcalogia. Un final in crescendo amb molta filosofia i concepció de l’univers en uns nivells que no m’esperava d’aquesta lectura.
Fun if not amazing. Funny all the way through. Fantastic introduction to Granny Weatherwax and some fun exploration of the Unseen University library. Definitely has a feel of "young Discworld." ( )
I guess this is just not my thing. I can see why other people would like it, but for me, the humor is a bit too much in your face and gets in the way of the story. I do like Granny, and I suppose Esk, but I would have liked them better in a more serious book. ( )
3.5 rounded up to 4. My husband chides me for reading Discworld in publication order rather than picking one of the more popular/beloved lines to start such as Night Watch or whatever, but we started listening to this one in the car a few weeks ago so I figured I ought to finish it. (and he picked it so... yeah)
Equal Rites is delightful, and while I can't remember the premise for either [b:The Colour of Magic|601238|The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1365691644l/601238._SY75_.jpg|194190] or [b:The Light Fantastic|34506|The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389554927l/34506._SY75_.jpg|592532], this one's simple enough: when witches are women and wizards are men, what happens when a dying wizard bequeaths his staff to the eighth child of an eighth son without checking the baby's sex? Eskarina is precocious and I'm pleased to be introduced to Esmeralda Weatherwax after seeing glimpses of reference in r/Fantasy and elsewhere.
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Thanks to Neil Gaiman, who loaned us the last surviving copy of the Liber Paginarium Fulvarum, and a big hallo to all the kids at the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club.
I would like it to be clearly understood that this book is not wacky. Only dumb redheads in Fifties' sitcoms are wacky.
No, it's not zany either.
Primeres paraules
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This is a story about magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where it comes from and why, although it doesn't pretend to answer all or any of these questions.
Citacions
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They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
Esk, of course had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you are attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.
... she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
It has already been revealed that light on the Discworld travels slowly, the result of its passage through the Disc’s vast and ancient magical field. So dawn isn’t the sudden affair that it is on other worlds. The new day doesn’t erupt, it sort of sloshes gently across the sleeping landscape in the same way that the tide sneaks in across the beach, melting the sand castles of the night. It tends to flow around mountains. If the trees are close together it comes out of woods cut to ribbons and sliced with shadows.
On the horizon were low hills, eroded not by wind or rain in this weather-less place, but by the soft sandpaper of Time itself.
“Aye tell you, girl, a white magician is just a black magician with a good housekeeper.” – Mrs. Whitlow
Fossils were well known on the Discworld, great spiraled shells and badly constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn’t really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene.
One thing the water couldn’t do was gurgle out of the ornamental gargoyles ranged across the roof. This was because the gargoyles wandered off and sheltered in the attics at the first sign of rain. They held that just because you were ugly didn’t mean you were stupid.
The frills were getting to her, they gave pink a bad name.
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They got it absolutely right and it would probably have important implications for the universe if it hadn't, next time the University flooded, been completely washed away.
In equal rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of a eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late.
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Em sembla impressionant lo rellevant que segueix sent una novela com aquesta escrita als anys 80. I em reafirmo en que el català li senta molt bé (sense poder comparar gaire la traducció es excelent).
Que pasaria si els mags fossin dones? Eskarina revoluciona el mon de la magia en una novela curta plena de reflexions i conceptes com la closcalogia. Un final in crescendo amb molta filosofia i concepció de l’univers en uns nivells que no m’esperava d’aquesta lectura.
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