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Summary: Lives up to the hype.
Review: Well, I recieved this book, in a collection of four of the Discworld books with Rincewind, through a science fiction book club because I forgot to send in that stupid "Featured Selection" thingie. (Anyone who's ever been in one of these sort of clubs: books, movies, music, ect knows what I'm talking about) It turned out to be a mistake I'm glad I made. The Colour of Magic has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read. It sort of brought to mind how Monty Python might do a spoof of the fantasy genre. As a matter of fact, who better to play Rincewind than John Cleese? I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to further delve into the Discworld series.
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Summary: Terry Pratchett is crazy
Review: This book is so funny! Even I actually laughed out loud a few times, and it's very hard to make me laugh over a book. But there were heaps of things that just made me smile, or laugh inside my mind. This was my first Discworld novel and I hope it'll only get better from here. The only things I can complain about are the few small inconsistencies. For example, Terry Pratchett can't decide whether to call it the Disc World, the discworld, the Discworld, the Disc world, or what...you get the idea. And Death is sometimes He, Him, His with a capital H, but later in the same sentence it can change. Same with the Lady Goddess. Of course, these little mistakes didn't at all affect my enjoyment of the novel. This book is highly recommended for people ages 14 and up who like fantasy/science fiction and humorous writing. If you like this book, you've got to try Neil Gaiman's books _Stardust_ and _Neverwhere_. I found _Stardust_ to be almost as funny as _The Colour of Magic_, and _Neverwhere_ at least as funny if not more, while in both those books you can take the characters seriously so it's not just for laughs. In fact those books are primarily fantasy, just written in a humorous style. My ratings: The Colour of Magic: 8.5; Stardust: 9; Neverwhere: 10.
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Summary: An incredible start to the discworld series
Review: I love this book because it is in escense the origins of the that floating disc on top of elephants on top of a turtle called discworld. After you've read the book play the videogame that is if you can find a copy.
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Summary: hard to re-read
Review: The Light Fantastic is much better. I love most of this book like heathen trob, but I find it hard to read because of all the inconsistancies with later books. I mean, come on, all that stuff about wizards not saying 8 and by Soucery wizards are talking about eighth sons of eighth sons without a care in the world. sigh. still, he is totally brillant to read and only getting better.
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Summary: The freshest fantasy author in years. Simply brilliant!
Review: "The Colour of Magic" is the first, and obviously the oldest, of the now infamous "Discworld" series. More than ten years since originally published, the book is still attracting new readers - me among them - who have gone on to purchase each and every one of the series. High praise indeed? Read on...The general plot of Pratchett's novel is a romp around a fantasy world. A place where the world is flat, and people who tried to show it was round were proven wrong years ago. It's carried through the cosmos on the back of four giant elephants, the magnitude of whom is so great that simply trying to imagine it makes your head spin. Even more mind-boggling, these elephants stand atop Great A'Tuin, the star turtle, who moves with extreme deliberance over tens of thousands of years, and has thoughts so vast that time itself pales into insignificance. Our heroes? Well there's Rincewind, the dropout wizard who failed Unseen University, the Wizard's universal school in all dimensions including ours, and TwoFlower, the tourist with the living luggage (and what stroppy luggage it is too). Happening upon each other in a pub, Rincewind finds the odd fellow strangely endearing; mainly because he is paying for a pint of ale with three times the value of the pub in solid gold. Their quest leads to run-ins with goblins, the local malitia, an entire array of very scary trees, demons with a penchant for the number eight, the local barbarian (who is usually for hire) and a crackpot set of scientists determined to travel to the edge of the world, and beyond... Pratchett's writing style is both warm and intoxicating. He involves the reader from the very first page with such wild fantasy that it simply must be true! His wacky, irreverent humour is simply so fresh that I have not encountered such entertaining and strongly visual prose since Douglas Adam's and his series of books including "The Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy." If you're a little mad at heart, love a new perspective on things and want to be thoroughly engaged in a genuinely fun read that you won't want to put down till it's finished (and the fact that it isn't written in chapters aids to this end) then this book is an absolute must. Thoroughly recommended!
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Summary: This book will make you snarf cheese (it's so funny)
Review: This such a funny book I almost snarfed (what you you do when you laugh and what happens to be in your mouth exits your body via your nose) cheese. I couldn't recomend a more halarious book. Buy this book and stay away from cheese while you read it.
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Summary: The first of the Discworld series-the funiest series ever
Review: Terry Pratchett has a weird mind, to come up with the stuff he thinks of you would have to have a weird mind, but that doesn't mean it's not funny on the contrary it's hilarious. "The Colour of Magic" is the first of the Discworld series and a perfect introduction to the series. Meet Rincewind, a failed Wizard, Twoflower, a tourist, and the Luggage, a traveler's dream and a bagsnatcher's worst nightmare. A novel of invariable delight.
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Summary: hilarious
Review: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Just thinking of the way people call eachother ugly things in this realm, makes my coke coming out my nose. And the way the ever-hopeless death ONLY SPEAK IN LARGE LETTERS, is... well, you read it, you buy it, and you'll laugh just as much as I did.
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Summary: This is where it starts...
Review: Pratchett is probably the best living English author; Colour of Magic is a wonderful start to his incredibly prolific creation of the Discworld. If you read this and it doesn't make you laugh, see a doctor - you're probably already dead. Colour of Magic can be read on many levels; it opens the shots in Pratchett's assault on some of the puns inherent in the English language, and takes full advantage of the cliches of fantasy. It doesn't have a message to ram down your throat, but it does have content and intent. A superb book... but the series gets better!
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Summary: Warning: Pratchett is highly addictive!
Review: This was the first Pratchett novel I read and I've reread it at least four times since. Once you start the Discworld series, you'll want the rest of them. As mixed up as the Discworld is, it still has a history, and this is the place to begin. Learn the real meanings of the words "insurance" and "tourist" and you'll soon realize that the Discworld is the one true reality! Just talking about it makes me want to read it again!
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