But then I read a lot of dislike for Kirby's covers.

I read (I forget where) that Pratchett almost felt like DKS hadn't read the book when he created the US covers. Wowee but people don't hold back their negative thoughts online (shocking, I know). I see people who hate DKS covers and love Kirby covers. So I start hunting around online because it's easy to do and do I find a lot of likes and dislikes on Pratchett covers! And it's all over the place. Maybe it's because of the Kirby covers? I'm not really sure. DKS was an incredibly prolific cover artist and did the covers for many books I've read so why don't I like it? Now the first four have Josh Kirby covers while this one has a DKS one and I don't like it. Flash forward many years when I get this book. They often drew me to books while I was cruising the local bookstore looking for something to read.

Sweet's (DKS) covers and learned to recognize them. I almost forgot to write about the cover! Back in the 70s when I was devouring fantasy, I loved Darrell K. On another hand I'm a little perturbed to write that for over 40 years I'd pronounced it wrong and it took Pratchett's wordplay in this book for me to figure it out. On one hand I'm proud to write that I now know how to pronounce geas. Individually they rock but I didn't get the same meshy feeling like I did in Mort. I like the characters but they don't seem to mesh well with the story.

I was listening to the Radio Morpork podcast on the book and they nailed what I had difficulty focusing on. I was wavering between 3 and 4 stars and I originally gave it 4 but I've revised it to 3 stars. In the bit he talks about how he was actually drunk in private until they threw him out of the bar into the public. Rincewind reminds me of a comedy bit Ron White performs when he talks about being arrested for being drunk in public. Years ago I didn't see it and out of the first five books, three were centered around Rincewind and his uncanny ability to get out of trouble while being so rudely inserted into trouble.

I love reading Pratchett as he builds his world full of characters that let him shift from one to another and write stories from different viewpoints.

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett