A little Sour on Sourcery This one fell flat but not like a pancake. 2.5 rounded out
I've come to the undeniable conclusion that Rincewind is the worst tourist on the Disc. He has no interest in his surroundings andwould much prefer to be in a tavern, alone.  Yeah, who could blame him? The Gods are playing chess with him again. Sadly, this adventure felt somehow lacking and I hate to say it because it's Discworld for Pratchett's sake! Rincewind is Rincewindish, he feels like a character stuck. Granted he may have PTSD from falling of the side of the disc and getting to see Great A'Tuin almost up close once and having to return THE SPELL the other time. And yet,  He doesn't feel Rincewindian enough.

In the end, Discworld remains one of those worldbuilding feats so ahead of its time as to remain unique. Imaginations today have created worlds so similar to each other you'd swear you're reading a book from one series but turns out it's that world next door by a different author. So in that regard, despite not loving this book, I do respect the work that went into it.

Worldbuilding Plot/Storyline/Themes -0.5 : It started out so promising. DEATH and an old dying wizard and said wizard thinks he can pull one over on Death and even his dying declaration was cackle-inducing. I saw the tale going the way it did sure, but not in that way - hollow and not really humorous and not enough gravitas and although Pratchett is known for ingenious humor and jokes that could easily go over one's head for decades, this one felt like that Rowan Atkinson series "Man vs Bee" - some obvious humor that could be slapstick and good for one laugh but barely a snort on the reread.

Character Development/Favorite Character -0.5:
We travel to Klatch with Conina the daughter of Cohen The Barbarian and I get the sense I should really like her, but she falls short of being a character I want to invest in. I don't hate her, nor do I care one iota for her.

Rincewind, The Hat, Conina, The Luggage had the makings of a quest for the ages. It ticked all the boxes:
●The threat
●Call To arms
●The Journey
●The Conflict
●The Banter
I could go on but I just wanted to finish the tale and worse; with each page I read I'd  hoped it would fill that empty feeling it was giving off. It didn't.  I still love Discworld, this book just wasn't for me despite it LITERALLY having every single element I live for.

Disappointing /Curious//Ludicrous/Unique Scene: - 0.5
Most scenes with Coin. I understand that by denying the reader insight into his early childhood we're left to imagine how the staff/his father influenced and manipulated the powerful little wizard. But, it just makes him two dimensional. Which might be the point, I don't have empathy towards the child-prodigy at all.  He is the "big bad" of this book but he's got tooo much power so feels like he should be the big bad of maybe the penultimate of the first 10 books.  He makes and breaks worlds and things come to him at ease without effort. There is no strife. He is just  the proverbial evil horror childfor the first 3 quarters of the book.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes: 
I barely e-annotated, which is against my better nature.

"The death of all wizardry is at hand".
Rincewind looked around guiltily.
‘Why?’ he said.
"The world is going to end."
‘What, again?’
"I mean it, "said the hat sulkily. "The triumph of the Ice Giants, the Apocralypse, the Teatime of the Gods, the whole thing."
‘Can we stop it?’
The future is uncertain on that point. (Rincewind and the Archchancellor's hat)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Interesting/Unique Concepts:
●8th Son of the 8th Son of the 8th Son = Sorcerer.
●Also The Klatch continent is very clearly the Middle East, The Hassansin "Hashishim", religion dictates that paradis is a garden with hundreds of "pure women" Midas makea an appearance, bandits, pirates and general bazaars and such and such and so forth.

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