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Summary: the last continent
Review: Well. This is the third novel I've read by TP, and it has pros and cons. I love the storytelling, but it needs some tying in to the rest of the milleu that TP has created...and it has some loopholes. But all in all, it is well worth buying and reading. An excellent book for discworld fans, but not quite close to the quality of Small Gods, or Good Omens....it needs to be read with the other Discworld novels to get the needed clarity...but Terry all the way! A great read...I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Very strange with a mangled ending
Review: This is my very first Terry Pratchett book and I must say that he suceeded in making his book interesting and hilarious. What I really didn't like about this book was that the ending was corny and the plot never seemed to hold together. At the beginning of the book, the wizard faculty of the Unseen University is looking for Rincewind, a lunatic wizard left stranded on the Terry Pratchett equivalent to Australia. The reason the faculty is looking for Rincewind is because he's the only one in the known world who knows the real name of the Unseen University Librarian and by knowing his name, the wizards are able to cast a spell to cure him of his odd sickness. So now the faculty is looking for him .... uh-oh .... they got lost in a strange dimention. (This constitutes approximately 50 pages of this 400 page book). The rest of the book hardly even mentions this doomed librarian and the faculty seems to forget what their initial plan was to begin with! The book also has Rincewind running around the Pratchett equivalent to Australia with nothing in particular to do or with any particular meaning. Now, of course, the reason I decided to give this book three stars is because it has wonderfully constructed one-liners --I practically laughed my gut out! The wizards talk with gods quite a bit and they just loooove arguing with each other, resulting in hilarious consequences. The dialouge is pretty good as well. I must say that this book is enough to make me want to read another Pratchett book (in fact I went out and bought The Color of Magic when I was done reading) knowing that this isn't Pratchett's best work.
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Summary: a few flaws, but still worth it
Review: This one alternates between Unseen University faculty marooned on a beach and Rincewind marooned in not-quite-Australia. Sometimes the time spent on one plotline before switching to the other is too short. Some characters feel underdeveloped, the ending stretches on too long, and there are scattered typos that contribute to a feeling the book was rushed. Finally, there's some overuse of clever similes. In the span of a few pages we get "Snowy went and drank from the tiny pool with a noise like an inefficient suction pump trying to deal with an unlucky turtle", "When he awoke, it was to a sound very much like a donkey being sawn in half", "The sound was that of a straw investigating the suds of the biggest milkshake in the world", and then some. Too much of this takes the laugh out of it.
But I still recommend the book for its humor and cleverness. "'We're wizards, young man. Using magic is what wizarding is all about.' 'No, sir! *Not* using magic is what wizarding is all about!"
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Summary: the best
Review: I have read every one of the Diskworld novels in and out of order. The funniest so far is "The Last Continent." I laughed for hours thinking of how accurate the Australian characterization had been. I truly recommend this book and all others in the Diskworld series!
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Summary: Well-done in the small, but not much of a plot
Review: Pratchett likes to skewer stereotypes, images, culture, and more, and in this case he sets his sites on Australian stereotypes and culture - plus ventures into dieties, evolution, and the sex life (or lack therof of wizards). Character-wise and humor wise, this is as good as any of his other books. Rincewind is up to his old tricks (mainly running away), we get much more into the mind of the Unseen University's leaders, and even a bit more of Mrs. Whitlow. The jokes are funny, the plays on words the usual classic pratchett, and the writing solid. However, the plot really just isn't that interesting, for what there is of it. There's some beautifully mystical and emotional moments, but it just doesn't hang together to produce much plot. Unlike most Discworld books, which I'll reread, I doubt I'll reread this one. Sure it was worth getting as a Pratchett fan, yes its head-and-sholders above many other works. However it's just not great.
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Summary: I'm moving to Discworld
Review: Terry Pratchett you hero. Not only do we read them all and eagerly await each new installment. The main man even signed our copy of The Last Continent - for my brother "Bert the Legend". all the discworld novels are winners - but Nanny Ogg's my fave.
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Summary: Maybe the worst of Discworld
Review: I honestly couldn't believe how bad this book was. Rincewind ismy 2nd favorite Discworld character (Death), but this was nothim. It started out good, with the usual Pratchett "I wish I woulda thoughta that" imagination. But I don't know, it seemed to me that after the first 50 pages or so ...he was the only one who thought this stuff was funny. I love the DW books with the wizards, too, but these were not them either. There are a few parts where Pratchett just goes on and on and on and on about something that stopped being funny 5 pages ago. Worst of all, the plot is erratic. There are way too many things going on which aren't ever explained. That's not like Pratchett either. A few good jokes (one particular I was in pain laughing so hard), but that's it. Sorry Terry, you missed badly with this one. END
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Summary: you had to be there
Review: I found this book in a small bookshop outside the supermarket (Woolworths?) in Katherine NT. We were restocking on our 2 month trip across and around Australia in Vanessa the VW kombi van. We had spent a happy 15 months in Melbourne and were going to 'see a bit' before returning to the real world in good old Blighty. After 'The tyrrany of distance' reliably described as an 'Aussie classic' this was a very welcome,if all too brief, positive blast of fresh air; truely reflecting some of the facets of the Australian psychi. I loved it, but then, as Max Boyce once said, I was there.
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Summary: G'Day
Review: As an avid fan of Terry Pratchett I find it hard to give one of his stories a less than glowing report. Unfortunately with the last continent I am faced with either telling the truth or lying to myself that this book is anything more than just OK. I guess as an Australian I will be more picky about detail than other readers who are not as familiar with Australian colloquialisms but as other reviews here have stated the story meanders aimlessly and seems to only exist for the insertion of "Ozzie Cliché's". Pratchett like any good writer seems to have done a lot of research into his focus topic but missed one vital point that all Australians will see. "G'day" is only used as a greeting. He has Rincewind and other characters using it as a parting comment. The opposite of "G'Day" is "Ooroo" in the classical sense and today of course it is "Seeya". I apologize to Mr. Pratchett for being such a pedant but hey it's my country right.
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Summary: Typical Pratchett Excellence
Review: After almost 20,000 books in the Discworld series, Terry Pratchett unaccountably continues his original, funny-bone writing style. Many authors "peter out" after the third or fourth novel - not Terry! Somehow he keeps churning out fresh ideas, fresh material, fresh humor - all while keeping the customer enamored with familiar characters and storylines. While some of the later books may seem daunting to new readers unfamiliar with our loveable Luggage or the invincible Rincewind, I for one will never give up my addiction to the Discworld so long as Terry keeps on with his terrific work
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