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Summary: Be Carefull
Review: Just a little warning.If you start reading this book you're up the a lot of nights without sleep...
You will read all of them because you can't stop untill you're at the end of the last one and than you are waiting for the next one to come...
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Summary: Excellent imagination and writing skill!
Review: Pratchett creates a world, a planet, which is a disc, unlike our globe. And a disc, as we know, has an end, an Edge. So what happens when you reach this Rim? The universe continues, but this planet ends--in a Rimfall (a waterfall) that falls over the edge of the planet into space. Obviously few have ventured over the Edge. This discworld, then, has to be supported somehow, it doesn't just float; it is held up by four gigantic elephants, who in turn stand on Great A'Tuin the Turtle, with sea-sized eyes and a brain as big as a city, who swims slowly through the interstellar gulf, to where, many intelligent people on the disc are trying to find out. And one of the biggest puzzles about this turtle is its gender--nobody yet knows. But they're trying to discover this by sending out spaceships over the Edge. If all that sounds too absurd to stomach, the story isn't. As you read, you discover this world, and learn the rules (which are rather few in number), for example, that Death Himself comes to claim a wizard, instead of sending one of his subordinates like He does for other lower people. And our main character is a wizard, 'sort of,' since he was chucked out his school of magic for stealing one of the great spells. His name is Rincewind. And there's the tourist, Twoflower from a different world, with his Luggage which follows him anywhere and everywhere with its 'hundreds of legs.' This first book is the adventure of Twoflower with poor Rincewind taking him around for a daily wage of 1 Rhinu (an unimaginably big sum for anyone in Ankh-Morpork, leave alone an expelled wizard). Of course, not even many more Rhinus a day would have tempted the wizard to this adventure had he known the dangers and close shaves with Death that it involved! The book opens up your brain to new ways of thinking and makes you laugh out loud with Pratchett's terrific sense of humour. It seems there are twenty-five more books in the series. I think I'm going to read quite a few of those.
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Summary: Great just great! Now I will have to buy +25 books!!
Review: This is a great book. I laughed all the way to the end. The book is so fast to read that I had to buy the next ones to look for more. I hope the next is even better.
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Summary: A perfect start to a very good series
Review: The Discworld series is absolutely hilarious, wonderfully entertaining reading, but it is not quite perfect. The plots are a little too...well...similar to each other. Someone or another is always saving discworld from imminent doom...the ending is always just a little too overdramatized, and not quite coherent enough. But The Color of Magic is the exception. The characters don't end up on some cosmic quest to save the universe. Instead, they are flung around wildly by the forces of ridiculously good luck and absolutely horrible luck, Rincewind hanging on by his fingernails and Twoflower just enjoying the ride. I find that this sort of story, with its totally unpredictable plot turns and its charming, not-so-heroic characters, draws me in much more than the standard out-to-save-the-world Discworld book. Don't get me wrong: the rest are great. Terry Pratchet is a comic genius. In my opinion, Discworld is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's only real competition for funniest, funnest (a word which has been brought into existence solely for this purpose) and most ridiculous series of all time. Yes, the other books are good, but if you are a Discworld reader who has somehow missed Color of Magic, or just a humor or fantasy fan who has somehow missed the series altogether, this particular book is a must.
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Summary: Fabulously funny book that reminds me of Xanth books
Review: Combine a great reader with a great author and you can't go wrong. The style of comedy employed in these books reminds me of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. I especially love "The Luggage." You certainly can't go wrong by reading just one of these to see if you want to continue the series. You just might find out why it's so popular
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Summary: Behold the Discworld
Review: In The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett introduces us to the Discworld, a flat planet held aloft by four great elephants, all of which ride on the back of the cosmic turtle called Great A'Tuin as he (or possibly she) purposely plods through the universe toward his (or her) unknown Destination. Having read many of the Discworld novels, I was rather struck by the fact that so much of what was to come was incorporated into this original novel, not only in terms of the characters but also in terms of the unique geological, geographical, and meteorological characteristics of the most unique world in the multiverse, from the grandeur of the Rimfall "close to the edge" to the singular city of Ankh-Morpork to the previously mythical Counterweight Continent. In terms of characterization, which is one of Pratchett's most gifted abilities, many of the individuals we encounter here are easily recognizable and described in the same exact terms in later novels. The humor, which is really what makes the Discworld series so wildly popular, is also here in great abundance. Pratchett can make something very funny with a mere word, deftly structuring sentences in a seemingly simple yet utterly brilliant way that few writers can match even on their best days. This book isn't as funny as most of the Discworld books that followed, but it can still make you laugh out loud at any given moment. One thing this book does lack, in comparison with its younger Discworld brethren, is Pratchett's brilliant and heavy use of satire. It may be wrong of me to judge this novel in comparison with other Discworld novels, but I certainly think the absence of constantly biting satire explains why this book is only incredibly funny rather than downright hilarious. In terms of characters, we meet many important denizens of the Discworld. First and foremost among these is Rincewind, the most inept wizard ever to walk the halls of Unseen University. He is not even very good at failing, which says a lot in itself, but he somehow keeps managing to elude Death, which is fortunate because his attempts to stay out of trouble virtually always backfire to land him in hot water. Rincewind is a fairly taciturn individual, living his life for the sole purpose of not dying. Thus, when he finds himself serving as a tour guide of sorts to Twoflower, Discworld's first tourist, a man who finds enjoyment in the most precarious situations for no other reason than his belief that no harm will come to a tourist, he is in for a hard time indeed. Of course, he is helped as well as hindered by the Luggage of Twoflower. The Luggage is made of sapient pearwood, which means it will follow its master anywhere (and I do mean anywhere), employing a multitude of little feet for its transportation and unhesitatingly attacking any one who gets in its way. The novel basically relates four adventures of this unlikely trio of characters, taking us from Ankh-Morpork to the temple of Bel-Shamharoth, the hideous Sender of Eight, to the inverted mountain Wyrmberg where dragons exist (well, sort of anyway) and finally to the land of Krull right on the edge of the disc. Along the way, we are introduced to such wonderful characters as the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Hrun the Barbarian, and Tethis the water troll. It is difficult to describe Pratchett's humor; it is simple yet complex, sarcastic yet meaningful, flippant yet philosophical, and often deviously subtle. Certainly, there will be some who don't "get" Pratchett or who honestly do not find him amusing in the least--such poor souls are to be pitied. Pratchett's popularity is ample proof of the fact that most people who pick up one of his books do find it highly amusing. The Colour of Magic isn't Pratchett's best work, but it sets a beautiful table for the huge buffet of laughs and joy to come from the Discworld books that would follow it.
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Summary: Funny, Funny, Funny
Review: I am a new fan of Terry Pratchett. He writes with much style and wit. The book The Color of Magic is hilarious. I have rarely laughed so hard as I do reading this book. His abiliy to take the most common known myths and legands and twist them into something funny is wonderful. I enjoyed this book thoroughly and look forward to the next book.
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Summary: A tough read for some
Review: This is the book that starts it all! Release from reality all who enter here. Can you belive in Magic, a flat earth, and where Death and a Trunk are characters? Piers Anthony fans this is a new twist on "what if's". Magic relies on an "eighth colour" of "octarine", and keeps this flat earth society going. Meet Rincewind an enept but one lucky wizard, Twoflower a tourist, and the Luggage!
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Summary: Terry has made a new fan
Review: This book has been a thrill to read, it kept me on the tips of the pages wanting to keep reading even while my mom was yelling at me to go to sleep. It is the first book I've ever read that has been in the humourous/fantasy catagory and I can"t wait untill I can make it back to get the second! Rincewind and Twoflower are the most hilarious heros ever in the fantasy department. Thumbs up!
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Summary: Just an OK Book, But it's a MUST READ
Review: This is the first in Pratchett's Discworld series. As such, it's an absolute MUST READ for everyone. Unfortunately, the book isn't one of the exellent ones in the series. It's nowhere near being a bad book. It's just not an excellent one. It's OK. Along with being the first in the whole series, this book is also the first of two in a sort-of Rincewind mini-series. The second book, "The Light Fantastic" is very good. Since Rincewind and the Luggage are recurring motifs in the series, you definitely have to read this.
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