Interesting Times (Discworld, #17)
"May you live in interesting times." -- Ancient CurseAnother outrageously clever installment in the Discworld files, Interesting Times reminds the world why Terry Pratchett is considered the best fantasy and humor writer in the English speaking world.When a carrier albatross arrives from the...
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"May you live in interesting times." -- Ancient CurseAnother outrageously clever installment in the Discworld files, Interesting Times reminds the world why Terry Pratchett is considered the best fantasy and humor writer in the English speaking world.When a carrier albatross arrives from the Counterweight Continent with an Urgent Request for a "Great Wizard," Rincewind is "volunteered." Along his absurdly delicious travels, he meets a colorful band of characters only Terry Pratchett could compile. Their mission is to either defend or destroy the Forbidden City of Hunghung. The instructions are not entirely clear.In this international bestseller, the funniest writer in fantasy strikes again with a rollicking tale of murder and mayhem in Discworld."The funniest parodist working in the field today, period." -- The New York Review of Science Fiction
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061052521 (0061052523)
Publish date: April 1st 1997
Publisher: Harper Prism
Pages no: 295
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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