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 [...]
Tag Archives: Discworld
First Lines: Mort
August 5, 2010 – 22:24
The further I travel into the Discworld—that disc-shaped world atop four ginormous elephants standing on the back of the Great A’Tuin, the World Turtle, who swims through the immeasurable vastness of space—the more I want to know what else is going on there. In Mort Mort turns out to be as fit for the family [...]
First Lines: Carpe Jugulum
January 27, 2010 – 14:17
Carpe Diem: Latin for ‘seize the day.’ Carpe Noctem: Latin for ‘seize the night.’ Carpe Jugulum: Latin for ‘go for the throat.’ In Carpe Jugulum, the twenty-third Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett takes on vampires. Which means he takes the cliches and plays with them. Which is perfectly alright in my book. After all, isn’t that [...]
First lines: Pyramids
September 17, 2009 – 20:26
Pyramids, the seventh Discworld novel (and, coincidentally, the seventh Discworld novel I’ve read), deals with pyramids that distort (what goes on) for normality on the Discworld, a prince trained to be an assassin who inherits the throne, a mysterious High Priest who detests change and the greatest mathematician in the world, who happens to be [...]
First lines: Equal Rites
March 17, 2009 – 20:55
Equal Rites (the third Discworld novel) deals with magic, witches and wizards. And why men can’t be witches and woman can’t be wizards. And more of that. The first two Discworld novels I read were the first two Discworld novels. This third one (the sixth I read, despite what I claimed earlier) gets things right [...]
