mass market paperback, 213 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2000 by HarperTorch.

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978-0-06-102069-8
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Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the Discworld series and the first in which the main character is not Rincewind. The title is wordplay on the phrase "Equal Rights". The novel introduces the character of Granny Weatherwax, who reappears in several later Discworld novels. The protagonist Eskarina Smith does not return until I Shall Wear Midnight, which was published 23 years later. Pratchett based the character Esk on his daughter Rhianna Pratchett.

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Es un libro fácil de leer, ingenioso y entretenido.

Tiene una lectura crítica sobre los roles de género, una crítica bastante básica pero que se podría ajustar al contexto de Terry Pratchett.

Me gusta cómo ridiculiza los roles de género a lo largo del libro y cómo los pone en evidencia de forma bastante graciosa. Por otro lado, se podría entender a Esk como la personificación de quien no ha sido aún contaminade por este pensamiento binario y arbitrario, que simplemente no lo entiende por lo que sigue sus deseos sin estar atada al binarismo. Es bonito ver cómo Yaya Ceravieja va aprendiendo y cómo se cuestiona a través de Esk las ideas preconcebidas sobre cómo son las cosas.

No le doy 5 estrellas por alguna frase machista o racista fuera de lugar, aunque nada que ver con los libros anteriores de la saga de Mundodisco, "El …

reviewed Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (3))

A start

A good book. I liked the idea of Headology, gender being performative, etc.

Almost didn't read this book because The Color of Magic was so bad.

reviewed Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (The Discworld series)

A fine book about ecology

I think it’s on the opposite side of the spectrum from Clarke’s “Piranesi” — and I like Pratchett’s viewpoint more: Clarke’s magic is desired and unreachable for those who seek it, so it’s a character of its own; Pratchett’s Esk postulates that not using magic when it’s there in your hands can be more important than using it, and that’s goes further than just admitting of its agency, it adds a very important nuance: whose agency is more of the liability to the living.

More literally Pratchett’s ecology is delivered in passages about Borrowing and things’ names and minds (Granny’s goats, and rocks of the University), but magic is the ultimate example of goals and means being one thing.

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  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - Series
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  • Fantasy - General