I can't believe I'm giving a Pratchett book only 2 stars, and wondering if that's not actually one star too many. This book overflows with sour notes. The gentle, sly mocking of an entire nation (something Pratchett is quite good at, usually) veers a little too close to hurtful stereotype at times. And why did he think that the frequent jokes about rape and sexual assault (mostly made by Cohen and his crew - Cohen admonishes their scholar to allow one of the men his "wishful thinking" about raping women, Cohen later hopefully asks if there will be raping in the city, and the scholar praises one of the men for not tearing a woman's clothes off, and on and on) were a good idea? They weren't. In my opinion, they ruin the book; they definitely ruined my reading experience. Sigh.