The first book in the Discworld series. Yes, I finally backed up, and decided to read it all from the start. Rincewind a very failed wizard takes on the burden of escorting the tourist Twoflower and his Luggage through the Discworld -- a suggestion of Lord Vetinari's, and it's wise not to say no to ...
I heard some great stories about the Discworld series, so last year I bought The Colour of Magic. I had a lot of other books on my TBR pile as well, so I just started with the book last week. I'm only halfway through, but I'm incredibly disappointed. A lot of people say that this book is one of the ...
I adore this series - it appeals to the slightly mad side. Art is supposed to hold a mirror to life, Pratchett does this, only he uses a distorting mirror - it's life, Jim, but not quite as we know it.Poor Rincewind is a failure as a wizzard. He does have some skills, with languages and running away...
I love Discworld. This is the start of my second read of the series. Quite an undertaking at this point. This, the first book, is strangely episodic. That's not a bad thing, it's just very different from what will come later. Having read the later books, I can spot the things that have been tweaked....
Recently, there was (or currently still is) a scandel about the International Booker Prize. One of the judges resigned over the fact that it had been awarded to Philip Roth. She then went public with her reasons which included the belief that Roth always wrote about the same thing.I don't know abo...
I just adore Pratchett. The first thing I ever read by him was Good Omens, which of course, he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Some of the ideas, being very Gaimanesque, led me to the rest of Gaiman's books, but the snarky, playful humor is (mostly) all Pratchett. It took me quite awhile to figure that o...
I don't know what I was expecting, but I thought the story would be... better? It was funny and fun, but I liked the (2) other, later Discworld books I've read. I still plan on continuing the series, I was just a bit underwhelmed by this book.
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