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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Oh I'm deeply emotional about this book.... I read this for the first time in probably.. early high school? it was formative, I've never stopped thinking about it, so glad that it held up in re-read. did i pick my own name based on this book? like not ENTIRELY but surely, not entirely NOT
picked this up, of course, due to recent Terry Pratchett twitter discourse, and it really is fascinating to like, look back upon some of the early pratchetts vs. this one- I mean you can kind of tell as of like Equal Rites that he doesnt really.. Know what women are.. but imo always in like a decent and goodhearted way. I think you can bring that forward here and be like, mr. pratchett has clearly never met or heard of trans people, and so GIVEN that it's really shocking how much he gets it and he vibes. like.. jackrum at the end? jesus!!
this book, which i ofc remembered being about Gender and Women's Rights, surprised me with the amount that it's about war, bureaucracy, nationalism. I suppose to some degree all Discworld is about bureaucracy, but here the Catch-22 style military bureaucracy really pops. I don't think I fully picked up as a child that the Only cis man in this book is the lieutenant, and then the degree to which Jackrum is like "the rupert is the manager who needs to be managed" which is. a real feeling
I don't know it's just- damn! It's extremely extremely good. I'm writing up all these reviews of actual "I am Trans Gender" YA books from like 2015-present and I don't want to say this book is BETTER on the topic than they are but (this may just be my like, adult self talking) I'm extremely into its lesbians without needing to say so & its old trans grandpa without having to say so. sometimes things that are not subtext..... are worse
picked this up, of course, due to recent Terry Pratchett twitter discourse, and it really is fascinating to like, look back upon some of the early pratchetts vs. this one- I mean you can kind of tell as of like Equal Rites that he doesnt really.. Know what women are.. but imo always in like a decent and goodhearted way. I think you can bring that forward here and be like, mr. pratchett has clearly never met or heard of trans people, and so GIVEN that it's really shocking how much he gets it and he vibes. like.. jackrum at the end? jesus!!
this book, which i ofc remembered being about Gender and Women's Rights, surprised me with the amount that it's about war, bureaucracy, nationalism. I suppose to some degree all Discworld is about bureaucracy, but here the Catch-22 style military bureaucracy really pops. I don't think I fully picked up as a child that the Only cis man in this book is the lieutenant, and then the degree to which Jackrum is like "the rupert is the manager who needs to be managed" which is. a real feeling
I don't know it's just- damn! It's extremely extremely good. I'm writing up all these reviews of actual "I am Trans Gender" YA books from like 2015-present and I don't want to say this book is BETTER on the topic than they are but (this may just be my like, adult self talking) I'm extremely into its lesbians without needing to say so & its old trans grandpa without having to say so. sometimes things that are not subtext..... are worse
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I wanted to like this one more than I did. I think I struggled because the themes that it seemed Pratchett wanted to explore were also in some ways undermined by his premise - our characters wanted to find better solutions than the military but also to be part of it. And I found the conclusion a bit over-the-top-silly rather than Pratchett's usual just-silly-enough. There were bright spots - Polly is a very likeable protagonist, Blouse was hilarious all of the time and, the ending aside, the plotting was unusually free of obvious holes. But the magic, for me, wasn't really here.
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I think this might have been the first discworld novel for adults that I read? What a weird place to start. Anyway, I’ve been rereading every discworld ebook from the library I can get my hands on, and this is the best one so far. Certainly a favorite among the stand alones - Pratchett’s feminist, pacifist novel, often more serious (and also more powerful) than his earlier work. Reading it next to Moving Pictures was startling in its demonstration of how much the discworld books evolved.
P.S. I finished this book shipping Polly and Maledict so hard and was delighted to find a small niche of fan artists who agree with me, so definitely google that.
P.S. I finished this book shipping Polly and Maledict so hard and was delighted to find a small niche of fan artists who agree with me, so definitely google that.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No