Interesting Times (Discworld, #17)
A novel in the humorous fantasy Discworld series. The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil caused by the revolutionary treatise, "What I Did on My Holidays". Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes, and warlords are struggling for power.
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A novel in the humorous fantasy Discworld series. The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil caused by the revolutionary treatise, "What I Did on My Holidays". Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes, and warlords are struggling for power.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780575058002 (0575058005)
Publish date: January 1st 1994
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Pages no: 283
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Speculative Fiction
Series: Discworld 2 (#17)
Rincewind gets an invitation to go and visit an old friend. As is usual for him, this involves people mistaking him for an actual wizard and trying to kill him.Plenty of humour, ranging from the politest revolutionaries you're going to meet, to a geriatric barbarian horde.
Interesting Times is from the Rincewind subseries of Discworld. It’s been quite a few books since I’ve seen Rincewind, so it was fun to see him again. He always makes me laugh. If you’ve read the earlier books, you may remember that Rincewind once had some adventures with Twoflower, a visitor f...
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Discworld #17 Interesting Times opens on a deserted island where Rincewind is happily spending his days coping with boredom. We don’t know exactly how he got there, but that doesn’t really matter. He’s dealing with things like coconut surprise (surprise: it...
Discworld’s Counterweight Continent is explored for the first time in the series as author Terry Pratchett sends the inept wizard Rincewind to the walled off landmass where he meets up with some old friends in a reunion of the series’ first two books. The Discworld’s version of China & Japan is th...
When my friend leant me this book he simply said 'Rincewind' at which I rolled my eyes. I must say that Rincewind is certainly not my favourite Discworld character, even though some of the books in which he has starred have been quite good. However I wasn't really expecting anything all that much to...
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