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by Terry Pratchett
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Brian's Book Blog
Brian's Book Blog rated it 8 years ago
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.
YouKneeK
YouKneeK rated it 8 years ago
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...
Tannat
Tannat rated it 9 years ago
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...
mattries37315
mattries37315 rated it 9 years ago
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...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it 10 years ago
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...
Telynor's Library, and then some
Telynor's Library, and then some rated it 12 years ago
A bitterly funny, satirical look at Asia and its culture, viewed through the eye of Terry Pratchett. Plenty of earlier characters make a comeback, including Rincewind, The Luggage, and Cohen the Barbarian. There's another, but I won't give it away as it would ruin the plot. Let's just say that this ...
Book Trauma
Book Trauma rated it 13 years ago
I had wondered when we'd see Rincewind and The Luggage again. While I find Rincewind a bit bland I can't say the same for his Luggage. Unfortunately we see little of our many legged sapient pear wood friend after he's done baiting sharks. It is kind of worth it though, when The Luggage makes an appe...
helenliz
helenliz rated it 14 years ago
This one reunites Rincewind and Twoflower. After Twoflower (the disc's first tourist) returned home, he wrote a small tract (which sounds remarkably like the first day back at school) entitled "What I did on my holidays". As usual where he's concerned it has taken a life of its own and a strange set...
shenmi meiren
shenmi meiren rated it 14 years ago
A wonderful commentary on fascination with the Far East. Truly splendid!
CharlotteBuriedinBooks
CharlotteBuriedinBooks rated it 15 years ago
It was OK, good to see Rincewind again. Didn't really take off for me until the last 100 or so pages. Saw a very different side to Twoflower towards the end as well, which was quite touching.As always it was sharply observed, this time concerning the orient, the red army etc. Just wasn't quite as...
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