Book Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Books like Unseen Academicals is the reason why rereading is eye-opening. The first time around I read the book, I wasn’t impressed. I thought Pratchett had lost some of his earlier magic. The truth was that he had changed and evolved, and I could not see it. Yes, it would be easy to get caught with football part of the story, which has depth and cheeky satire towards the passion people bestow to all things, but underneath that lurks a bigger idea: mental health and selfhood.

This book is all...