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I've read a few other Terry Pratchett books already, but it was great reading the first book in the Discworld series. I love his writing even more now. He's so witty!

I found this book difficult to get into/get used to at first, but after clearing the hurdle of remembering the abundance of unfamiliar sounding character names (at least 35 separate characters who have some degree of significance to the plot! I suggest, if you have similar such trouble upon cracking open this egg, reading in front of a computer and keeping a Word document open to alphabetically list names-of plus corresponding descriptions-of characters, so that you can refer to it as needed), I found it much easier to get involved in the story. The plot is centered around the celebration of the independence of Kenya. The story is not told in a linear manner, so events are revealed in pieces, backwards and forwards. Structurally, it's pretty genius -- everything fits together. I found it to be an incredibly moving examination (and ultimate debunking, in a way) about the problematic nature of heroism, the cost of history. It refuses easy resolutions, in a genuinely truthful way. I'm being vague, because one of the ways the book involved me this first time around was how it peeled stuff back bit by bit. Anyway, it's still haunting me; definitely a book to revisit.

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