Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...

I'm glad I'm rereading these. I only gave it three stars the first time, and... well this was really fun. We finally have Granny and more of the wizards. Esk was really fun and I liked watching her relationships with Granny and Simon develop. I loved seeing the witch magic vs wizard magic and headology. I'm not super into the Dungeon Dimension stuff, but it was all really well done.

A story about the first female Wizard in the Disc World, where women are usually enchantress or witches

My overall impression of Pratchett is this
- tries to squeeze some sort of joke or pun into every sentence
- gives an absurd meaning to an otherwise well established but somewhat unusual concept
- I don't like most of those, and so all is left is the characters, the plot and his fantasy world
- I don't like those either