The Witches Trilogy bundles the first three Witches stories from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Equal Rites still deals with magic, witches, wizards, why men can’t be witches and women can’t be wizards, and all that. Wyrd Sisters examines how the power of words can affect reality, how such power doesn’t always turn out the way it should, and uses a fair dose of Shakespeare to do so. Finally, Witches Abroad lampoons a bunch of fairy tales to illustrate how powerful stories can be.
It took me nearly six months to finish this book. And that’s not because of the book itself. As usual with Pratchett, it’s a ton of fun. No, I blame the tiny change I made to my daily schedule, on accord of which my just-before-bedtime-reading dwindled down to just a couple of pages a day. On a good night.
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- Terry Pratchett — Equal Rites
- First line
- 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 the these questions.
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- Terry Pratchett — Wyrd Sisters
- First line
- The wind howled.
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- Terry Pratchett — Witches Abroad
- First line
- This is the Discworld, which travels through space on the back of four elephants which themselves stand on the shell of the Great A’Tuin, the sky turtle.