Equal Rites
The following post was written before I started this website, as such the notes consist of quotes and summary thoughts as I read the book. I’ve pulled the book club’s thoughts together at the top, along with the original score and the new tier ranking.
Final thoughts
Pterry really hitting his stride now, much more of a book than a parody, but still very funny. Some amazingly funny lines!
The score is 5.5 Staves out of Five
This is an A-tier Pterry book!
Favourite quotes
- It wasn’t a large village, and wouldn’t have shown up on a map of the mountains. It barely showed up on a map of the village.
- “What’s an elephant?” “A kind of badger,” said Granny. She hadn’t maintained forest-credibility for forty years by ever admitting ignorance.
- “They say there’s dwarf mines under the Ramtops,” she said inconsequentially. “My, but them little buggers is in for a surprise.”
- it was obvious that she would give in before the end of the paragraph.
- A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.
- Bel-Shamharoth, C’hulagen, the Insider—the hideous old dark gods of the Necrotelicomnicon, the book known to certain mad adepts by its true name of Liber Paginarum Fulvarum, are always ready to steal into a slumbering mind.
- the thick texture of authentic Ankh water—too stiff to drink, too runny to plough.
Thoughts during reading
- Introduction game on point, Terry knows how to pull you into a book immediately.
- Women’s magic is different, it’s all headology while men’s magic is all jommetry, but that’s something to be proud of for granny.
- Witch Hilta works solely in the domain of boner pills and contraceptives.
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