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[skygiants]

Lords and Ladies, oh gosh, Lords and Ladies. A reasonable proportion of the Pratchett books I've been trucking through have pleasantly equalled my expectations, but I think I had literally forgotten how good Lords and Ladies was. Not that I didn't remember it as good! I just didn't remember it was that good.

Here are the top ten things that are great about Lords and Ladies:


10. Once again, all of the important battles and shifts in power dynamics happen between women. That's just HOW THEY ROLL in Lancre.
9. That being said, Shane Ogg the Perennially Ridiculous and Jason Ogg the Somewhat Less Ridiculous both get to be legitimately awesome.
8. On a related note, Ridcully is unhelpfully soppy and lovestruck and it's taken exactly as seriously as it deserves. (I am actually really sad that Ridcully and Granny never get to meet again in the series, I would read a million books in which they fight crime, or possibly each other, while having belligerent sexual tension. YES I WOULD. You can't judge me, YOU TOTALLY WOULD TOO.)
7. And he got the Librarian to Lancre by telling him they had shelves and shelves of UNCATALOGED BOOKS! THIS HURTS THE LIBRARIAN IN HIS PRESERVATIONIST SOUL.
6. Being engaged to a king doesn't have to be about sitting around doing embroidery, and being kind and sort of soppy doesn't have to mean being weak.
5. Nanny and Granny are the best of teams. The challenge in the square! That may well be my favorite scene, hands down.
4. Granny Weatherwax IS A STONE COLD BADASS
3. Nanny Ogg is a SEXY badass.
2. Magrat Garlick is a soppy, kittens-loving, ARMOR-WEARING ELF-SLAYING BADASS QUEEN
1. No, actually, even after Magrat put on her shining armor, hoisted her weaponry and went charging off to rescue her prince, Granny Weatherwax is STILL THE MOST BADASS OF THEM ALL, FOREVER AND ALWAYS

Guys, I am excited for Maskerade and for Carpe Jugulum, I know that these are books I also love enormously, but right now I'm just sort of like how does it get BETTER?

Comments

[campkilkare]

One of the most interesting things, I think, about the "kind and soppy doesn't equal weak" thing is--Nanny and Granny get it, and Magrat doesn't. They are always saying Magrat is a wet hen, but then they toss some huge problem her way and just expect her to handle it and be fine, and it makes Magrat SO MAD. But she always is just fine. And then they turn around and call her a wet hen again. And she never puts it together--and they never stop to tell her, of course--that that's because there's nothing wrong with being a wet hen.