However, I figure that the first book was really just to introduce me to the world, much like taking a tourist on their first trip of a land, and give me a feel of where these stories are going more than anything else. I was only mildly amused by most of this book until the end when it started showing some of what I could expect with upcoming books in terms of storytelling.
He just didn’t make me feel any particular way about him. I liked him as the cowardly wizard turned unconventional hero with the (unwanted) help of Twoflower and Luggage. I certainly enjoyed Twoflower and Luggage (who is my favorite character and the real MVP of this series). Twoflower hires Rincewind to be his guide through this strange land, leading Rincewind on adventures he’d rather not have.Īdmittedly, I wasn’t overly impressed with The Color of Magic. We meet Rincewind, a cowardly failed wizard who has one of the world’s greatest spells lodged in his head, a spell so great that other spells refuse to stay in the same head, and Twoflower (with Luggage), a tourist from a far land who looks at the world through such rosy glasses that he believes nothing bad could ever happen to him and generally, this holds true for him. Readers learn about Discworld, a world that rides on the back of a giant turtle–called Great A’Tuin–swimming through space.
“Let’s just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting ‘All gods are bastards.’ Got any food?”
I mean, I planned to get to the books, anyway, so I figured now was a good a time as any. When Pratchett passed away, I agreed do to a buddy read with him out of sympathy. I’m probably one of the last people on the planet who hasn’t read anything by Terry Pratchett despite the fact that I have friends who are huge fans of his, especially one of my closest and dearest friends, Nick, who is more infamous around these parts as being a peddler of his mom’s filthy alien smut that has been immortalized under the Goodreads bookshelf “ Nick’s Mom’s Porn (Has Got it Going On)” which is often sang to the tune Stacy’s Mom. Audiobook Review Bites: The Color of Magic & The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
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