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Summary: Better than most Rincewind tales
Review: I'm primarily a fan of the Watch (Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms) and I typically grow very tired of Rincewind. This volume was a hoot, though. The wizards of Unseen University are very well served by placing them outside their usual environment. The usual appearances by Death are satisfactory as well. Not quite as good as his previous work, but Pratchett is holding up very well besides.
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Summary: downhill
Review: does anyone else out there think that pratchett is writing far too many books recently. the hogfather was the first book that i was really disappointed in and this is the next. i wish he would slow down.
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Summary: Good, but new-comers should read the old titles first.
Review: Though a late-comer, I have become a die-hard fan of Pratchett's 'Discworld' and can understand the mixed reviews his book has received. Rincewind and his Luggage are enjoyable characters, constantly tossed through time and space without respite. I fear, though, that like another character, Vimes, Rincewind may be at the endpoint of his adventures. The end leaves the impression that Rincewind could return with the UU faculty back to Ankh-Morpork, no longer a 'game-piece' for Lady Luck.
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Summary: Another hit from the master of fantasy!
Review: "The Last Continent" was another non-stop laugh fest from Terry Pratchett. I especially loved the UU faculty on Mono Island, and the encounter with the "horrible lizard." Rincewind was pretty good too, especially when someone steals his hat and he curses them. Heh, heh, heh...
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Summary: Really quite good
Review: Enjoyable, of course, but slightly sloppier at times than some of his other books. The two plots only come together at the very end (which is annoying), and in a very discreet manner, so as to prevent you from noticing. Still, I laughed harder at bits of this book than I have at any other Pratchett book, so it couldn't have been that bad
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Summary: Excellent continuation of the Discworld.
Review: As I am a die hard Discworld fan hence my email address I fully enjoyed this book but I was a bit worried about the reemergence of Rincewind as you can only use a character so many times before it becomes monotanous but these doubts were but to rest but a hugely funny book with many characters well known and loved being brought in to keep the tale singing. But with a slightly obscure and confusing story every so often it may lose a reader or two especially if this is their first discworld novel but to those who love discworld carrying on reading it is brilliant.
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Summary: Pre-empting a pub comedian's oneliners?
Review: If I hadn't read a couple of Discworlds before, I'd have no idea about the Luggage. I'm an Orstrylian, so I recognise allusions to Vegemite, Priscilla, and the Redback Brewery. If you don't have either (or both) of these advantages, I think the book will be pretty baffling - I think TP conjured up Discworld again for the '98 sales season, but forgot to add a plot. Terry's hero sustains himself in the desert by turning over rocks and finding ham sandwiches or the like, when he gets hungry. I dunno what the point of that is, except to give a further air of surrealism to the plot...but to think some folk cite this as great writing - now that really is surreal! There are some one-liners in the book which raise the unexpected chuckle, but like Rincewind's tucker, they only appear in unlikely places, just often enough to keep Terry fed. But it's a pretty plotless desert in between. Skip this and read an earlier one. (If you are a fan, re-read an earlier one and think positive thoughts about the '99 model to come.)
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Summary: Despite disparate plot lines, his usual funny and ironic sto
Review: Despite the disparate story lines, I didn't mind finding Rincewind once more (he seems to be improving slowly, but the bit of the Librarian changing form with (to me) no particular reason was a bit far gone. I liked the Aussie slang (was intimidated by same in WW II), which seems to have improved to a good extent by now. Pratchett messing about with gods does not strike me as all that funny, so I simply pass it over as his ironic treatment of organized religion(?) No worse than Jingo, far better than Eric, not as "dark" as Carpe Jugulum. He and Neil Gaiman used Australia in Good Omens, too.
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Summary: No Worries
Review: It probably is strange to see how some people only give the book 2 stars and find it a big disappointment, while others say it is his best one yet... Terry writes far more than 1 book-a-year which sometimes shows in his work. If you are a die-hard Discworld fan, you can't help noticing that Pratchett is getting less original all the time. But he has to repeat things, because non-Discworld fans have to be able to read the books as well. It is pretty weird to assume everone knows about a world standing on the back of a turtle; these things need to be explained over and over again. BUT in this book Mr. Pratchett doesn't write about most of his 'clichees', but about an entire new continent (XXXX for the fans) and still people (Discworld-fans!!) complain. A bit australianish as the cover says, but still very nice to read. Still no worries eh?
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Summary: Discworld - The ending of a series
Review: I once read that Pratchett was going to stop the Discworld series at 25 books, and I think it's starting to show in his writing. I read "The Last Continent" because it was about Rincewind, and Rincewind is always funny. It wasn't, at least not as funny as other Discworld books, and it seemed like the effort really wasn't there. It was more like reading an Australian version of "Silverlock" (where the main character meets and interacts with famous literary characters), than a Discworld book about Rincewind getting out of trouble he caused to himself. This is one Discworld book that I most likely will not read until it falls apart. It's still a good story, but not quite up to the level set by the other books in the series.
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