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I'd been meaning to read this for a while. Its a favorite of several friends of mine, and it was good. Interesting magic system. You can really see the impact of his Rules of Magic. Namely that the reader has to understand the rules so that it doesn't feel like cheating every time a problem is solved with magic.

If the back cover sounds at all interesting its probably for you.

Because its satire and its supposed to be a little dark, the balance needs to be just right. For me the humor wasn't quite landing which left the darker parts dominating my impression of the book. The humor / satire wasn't bad it just wasn't quite hitting from me. It felt a bit like watch something funny in your second language where you can appreciate the joke but the layer of indirection means that you don't quite feel it.

I could easily see myself loving this book if I read it at a different time or in a different head space.

Really different form Children of Time. The humor never really hit for me so it didn't really grab me, and it left me kind of depressed with the whole thing. I think thats the point, but for me the balance was off.

I wouldn't attempt to rank all the Discworld books. But I definitely prefer the later ones to the the early ones. I appreciate that the characters from the watch are are visible but we only see them through an outsiders eyes, which is a nice touch.

I think the Disc world books don't fully get going until they move away from the Wizards focused boos. This one is a fun read and a good conclusion to the first book.

I started rereading all the Discworld books before bed this year. There is't a lot to say about them that hasn't already been said.

Its the first Discworld book. Its certainly not the best. And honestly I think that the Wizards books are the ones I like the least. That said its actually kind of amazing how this book seems to have almost everything that the Series is famous for.