Discworld - Watching Equality Among Races

While I was still reading Reaper Man, I came across this article on the web.  Once again Pratchett knew things before any of us.  The man mined information more than any author I've come across.

Men at Arms is a favorite (yes, I know, but they're almost all favorites) because it introduces Angua, brings back Detritus, and plays on old themes.  When Cuddy is trying to teach the Dwarven Gold Song (which is made up of only the word "gold") to Detritus (who he then keeps berating for getting the song wrong) you can't help but laugh.  And yes, this fantasy world has gunpowder (Black Powder #1), but the book is all about why and why not.

The Guards books are Pratchett's writings of mysteries and police procedural, but at the same time he addresses other issues.  Dwarves and Trolls hate each other, but humans have their own feelings towards them.  Trolls appear stupid so they are marginalized.  Dwarves are subtly discriminated again because "everyone knows what Dwarves are like."  Everyone but Dwarves of course.

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Appearing in this book:

“Do deformed rabbit, it’s my favorite”

“Millennium hand and shrimp"
"Personal is not the same as important."

“The world is your mollusk”

Ankh-Morpork

Bearhugger's Very Fine Whiskey

Beggars guild

Bells of Ankh-Morpork

Bloody Stupid Johnson/UU Organ

Captain "Mayonaise" Quirk

Captain Vimes

Chalky the Troll

Chrysoprase, the Troll

Coalface the Troll

Corporal C. W. St. J Nobbs

Corporal Carrot Ironfounderson

Cumbling Michael
Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler

Death

Done-It Duncan
Doughnut Jimmy
Dr. Cruces, Assassins’ Guild

Dragon attack

Dried Frog Pills
Drumknott, Secretary

Dwarf bread

Dwarf Bread Museum - Rime Street

Dwarf delicatessen (Gimlet’s)

Dwarven Gold song

Elm Street

Fingers Mazda
Flint the Troll

Foul Ole Ron

Gaspode

Gerhardt Sock, Butchers’ Guild

Grabpot Thundergust the Dwarf

Hi ho song

Koom Valley

Lady Selachii

Lady Sybil Ramkin

Lance-Constable Angua

Lance-Constable Cuddy

Lance-Constable Detritus

Leonard da Quirm

Lord Downey, Assassins’ Guild

Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Patrician

Lord Rust

Lord Venturii

Ludmilla Cake

Mad Lord Snapcase, former Patrician

Moraine the Troll

Mr. (Arthur) Winkins

Mr. Hong and the Three Jolly Luck Take-Away Fish Bar on Dagon Street opening on the Winter Solstice under a Full Moon

Mr. Ixiolite, the Banshee

Mr. Morecombe, Vampire Lawyer

Mr. Whiteface, Fool’s Guild

Mrs. Cake

Mrs. Drull, the Ghoul

Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor
Old Stoneface (Vimes)

Quantum Weather Butterfly

Queen Molly of the Beggars’ Guild

Reg Shoe

Ruby

Sargent Colon

Sendivoge, Alchemists’ Guild

Sham Harga/Harga's House of Ribs
Silas Cumberbatch, Town-Crier

Silicon Anti-Defamation League

Silverfish, Alchemist’s Guild
Slice (Mountain)

Stronginthearm the Dwarf

The Assassins' Guild

The Brass bridge

The Bucket on Gleam Street

The Bursar
The Dean
The Fools' Guild

The High-Energy Magic Building

The Librarian

The Librarian

The Mona Ogg

The Opera House

The Pork Futures Warehouse

The Ramtops/Copperhead

The Royal Mail/The Post Office

The Thieves' Guild

The Things from the Dungeon Dimensions

The Unreal Estate

Twurp's Peerage

Unseen University

Wilikins, Butler
Wolf pack leader like Carrot