![]() ![]() Pratchett has an incredibly rare talent for compressing humour into one-liners that are witty, incisive, and yet never feel mean - it's not jokes that you feel are directed _at_ anyone, just mined from the stuff of life.I've decided to review the first two books, "The Color of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic" together since they both follow the same characters and storyline. This isn't Terry Pratchett's best book but it's full of all the great stuff that gathers together into its peak a few books into the series. We get a great tour of the Discworld, its geography, magics, and inhabitants, all of which are so fantastically imaginative and amusing that even geography becomes a joy. ![]() Hilarity ensues as Twoflower tries to see everything, Rincewind tries not to die, and the gods play games with them. And very angry, of course."Īnyway - incompetent and cowardly failed wizard Rincewind falls in with Twoflower, the naive tourist with an impossibly optimistic attitude, oodles of gold, and an indestructible, vicious and implacable treasure chest on legs to defend him. "When I think that I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel," he paused, then added, "well, humble, I suppose. unless they happened to live near the river and their corpses floated by on the way to the sea."Īnd this from the character Twoflower was poignant: I particularly liked one that said about men falling foul of the thieves' guild (I paraphrase) '. It's a very funny book with some GREAT one-liners. I was surprised to find how much of this I remembered, especially as I last read it 28 years ago! It is, to be fair, both a very readable and a very short book (65,000 words - a short fantasy these days is ~100,000 words). I've just read this in slightly over 24 hours. 'DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING,' said Death, 'JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.' I'll take our very old and battered copy (bought in 1987) to the hospice this weekend when I go with Celyn and see if I can't refresh my memory. ![]() I haven't reviewed this because I read it so long ago that all I can remember is I loved it. ![]()
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