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Sourcery
by Terry Pratchett
I have conflicting feelings about this book- on one hand, Rincewind really starts to grow as a character, going from someone that bad things happen to to, well, someone bad things happen to but starts trying to fix them, if reluctantly, because he knows it's the right thing to do. On the other hand, I feel like I've read this book by Pratchett before, as it's not all that different from the other Rincewind books.
I also think that sometimes Pratchett's satire falls flat. It's not very funny to me to have a female barbarian who wants to become a hairdresser because there are no other main female characters in the book, so what is it satirizing? When you have only one female character, and she wants to quit her job to have a stereotypically feminine career, where's the joke? Other than that women aren't designed to be warriors? I know Pratchett isn't going for that, but his sausage fest of a cast turns it into that. And, last thing, his tendency to joke about absolutely everything leads him into cringeworthy territory, I think, because there are a couple jokes that qualify as rape jokes, and that's not cool. Joking about death and joking about sexual violence are two very different beasts.
I also think that sometimes Pratchett's satire falls flat. It's not very funny to me to have a female barbarian who wants to become a hairdresser because there are no other main female characters in the book, so what is it satirizing? When you have only one female character, and she wants to quit her job to have a stereotypically feminine career, where's the joke? Other than that women aren't designed to be warriors? I know Pratchett isn't going for that, but his sausage fest of a cast turns it into that. And, last thing, his tendency to joke about absolutely everything leads him into cringeworthy territory, I think, because there are a couple jokes that qualify as rape jokes, and that's not cool. Joking about death and joking about sexual violence are two very different beasts.