Words cannot describe how much I love Terry Pratchett. I started reading his books when I was way too young to understand all of the social and political commentary, but I understood enough for it to have a big impact on my worldview, values, and the way that I wanted to live my life.

This book takes on multiple of these social and political issues - racism, colonialism, imperialism, sexism, you name it. The most prominent theme is war and the stupid reasons we end up in them, such as the ones named above. 

What Terry Pratchett does so well is showing the absolutely stupidity, hypocricy, and ridiculousness of people, especially those in power. 

It's controversial whether Pratchett actually said this, but it describes his type of satire well. However, this doesn't mean that he ignores the casual and everyday racism of ordinary people. One of the critiques in this book is about how people get swept up in a fervor and are suddenly ready to violently attack other people for... uh... reasons.

A lot of Pratchett's writing is dialogue, and I personally love that. Sometimes the focus of his books are not in the plot but on characters, which can make the pacing a bit slow. That said, the plot was complex and came with unanticipated twists and turns.

I understand why someone might not like Pratchett's books, especially if one does not enjoy absurdist writing. I personally love it. Pratchett also wrote in racist and sexist stereotypes in a way that would probably not fly in these days. These can be offensive, but that's kind of the point.

Anyway, I could talk about this for hours. I will always recommend Pratchett to anyone and everyone.