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Title: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0-06-102070-2 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (69 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fantastic Book
Comment: The Light Fantastic is the sequel to Pratchett's first Discworld book (The Color of Magic), and I definitely think it's better. The plot is (unlike in The Color of Magic) concentrated on one thing, and the thing is a bright red star that's approaching the disc. The two main characters are Rincewind and Twoflower, the two fellas that fell off the Disc in the previous book, and Twoflower's luggage, a box with weird temper. They experience many things that can only happen on the Disc, and some regular things, like meeting the Disc's greatest hero, the 70 year-old, Cohen the Barbarian, but the main idea of the book is them saving the Discworld from the red star.
Rincewind, an UU (Unseen University) dropout, has one of the 8 great spells the Creator left. The only problem with the spell is, it seems to have a mind of its own, and it tries to talk to him. And whenever Rincewind is in trouble, or a near-death situation (believe me, there's lots of them) the spell tries to say itself. He spends most of his time to save Twoflower from himself and the other part of the time running from people who want to get their hands on the eighth spell.
Twoflower is the Disc's first, and probably last tourist. He used to be an insurance (in-sewer-ants) agent back in his continent. He has quite a lot of money with him, and he keeps them in a box called the luggage. The one thing Rincewind hates about him the most is the fact that Twoflower believes that he can buy anything from anybody, even Death's living room clock.
Another thing pretty much everybody asks is "Should I read The Color of Magic first?" Well, I myself read The Light Fantastic first and still understood everything and got all the jokes. Pratchett does a great job explaining what happened in CoM. But no matter whether you read it first or even last, you're gonna have a great time reading THE LIGHT FANTASTIC, by Terry Pratchett.
Rating: 3
Summary: Better than #1, but Skip It
Comment: The plot continues unbroken from the first book, but Pratchett's style has settled down dramatically into more-or-less its current form. This one is not episodic but a single story; it moves well, it is fairly funny, and the main plot line involves the Discworld's arrival at a giant, menacing red star, the spell stuck in Rincewind's head, the gender of A'Tuin, the great turtle, and the reading of the Octavo, the most powerful magic book. We visit Death; we meet Cohen the Barbarian. At this point I'm fed up hearing about the Luggage; Pratchett's insistence on trying to make an animated trunk funny and menacing just bores me. The story concludes in a satisfying way, and we find out why pretty much the whole gang of wizards from Unseen University, introduced in the first book, is replaced by a new gang of wizards in the later books. While this one is decent, it is a continuation of the wretched first book, so I'd only read it if you're feeling up to taking on the whole Rincewind sequence, in order.
Rating: 4
Summary: One step forward...
Comment: ...without the two steps back. The adventures of Rincewind continue in a more dynamic writing in a generally better book. But, of course, as it's really the second part to The Color of Magic, the book won't make sense if you haven't read CoM.
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Title: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0061020699 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mort by Terry Pratchett, Victor Gollancz ISBN: 0061020680 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sourcery (Discworld 5) by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0061020672 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0061020664 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pyramids by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0061020656 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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