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Title: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0-06-102071-0 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (139 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Start to Discworld
Comment: In "The Color of Magic" Terry Pratchett weaves a tale of light fantasy and some humor to make a good read. Being the first in a series of over 25 books, I'm sure that this is probably not one of the best.
For one thing, his humor wasn't the greatest. He threw in some dumb punchlines but the really good humor wasn't as easy to find. Things such as his "Big Bang" theory were pretty good compared to some other dry stuff. Despite this Pratchett still did a good job in presenting a comical fantasy adventure.
The plot of this novel is pretty simple. Rincewind the Wizard (who graduated from Unseen University knowing no spells because one of the 8 Great spells trapped itself inside of him) meets the tourist Twoflower in a tavern. Twoflower hires Rincewind as his tourguide so he could see Discworld. After Twoflower sets the city of Ankh-Morpork on fire, he and Rincewind make a run for Quirm. Read on to find out the rest.
Pratchett's characters are the actual very funny part about the book. Rincewind is just...Rincewind; Twoflower has to see everything even if it means his existence on Discworld will be no more; the talking sword, Kring; Hrun the Barbarian who fights and has basically a dumb mind; and many other characters that we meet throughout thisnovel are just funny.
What is interesting about this book is that Terry Pratchett takes issues that have arised on Earth and puts them onto Discworld. These things make the world of Discworld seem even more like the one you and I are on right this very second.
In conclusion, "The Color of Magic" is a great read that a fantasy fan or somebody looking for a good book to enjoy. This novel is relatively short and can be read quickly. After reading this I am looking forward to reading more books about Terry Pratchett's Discworld. This is probably the best way to start out this series. Read this, you won't be disappointed.
Happy Reading!
Rating: 4
Summary: "!" said the stranger
Comment: This is the first book in the Discworld series and Terry Pratchett does an outstanding job of introducing the "logic" that reins in this world and some of the main characters that inhabit it. It has been a while since I found a book that made me laugh so much, the author has a great sense of humor, and he uses different means and techniques to make the reader roll on the floor with laughter.
Discworld rests on four giant elephants, Beriha, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen, which stand on top of the giant turtle A'Tuin. The people in this world have asked themselves the same questions over and over through time: What is A'Tuin's sex? Where is the world going? The answer to the second question is evident...to where A'Tuin decides!
I cannot help but feel that the fantastic world that Pratchett has created is based on our own "old world" with elements of the new one mixed in. For example, glasses, or cameras are considered elements of magic. Of course, the author does not stop there and adds other fantastical elements to the mix. One of the "regular" concepts we are used to handling in our world that made me laugh like crazy is inn-sewer-ants; sorry but you will have to read the book to figure out what this is, I do not want to give that much away!
The story starts when the oldest city in the world, Ankh-Morpork, is burning. Rincewind, the most useless wizard ever, is escaping from the city with Twoflower, a mysterious tourist that comes from the distant and mythical Counterweight Continent. When they are safely away from danger, we start learning about how they met and what were the events that lead to the fire. In this tale and in the one that continues after the characters leave Ankh, we will meet various characters, all of them picturesque and with a great ability to amuse.
The only negative aspect I can point out is that the world, characters and rules are a little complicated. Add to this the fact that there are no maps, since as Pratchett says "You cannot map the sense of humor". Anyway, I think that once I start reading the following installments in the series I will be able to get a more thorough understanding. The series well deserves the effort in doing this.
Rating: 5
Summary: OMIGOD
Comment: What do I think of this book? Look at the review title. What words are there for exactly how much I get into books like this? None. However, letters of contempt to the author concerning the ending. I read the guidelines and am not giving out any details, and I warn you, if you are afraid of things being given away about the plot, don't read any more about this review; move on, but still: drawn to the character or two in many books who is markedly an innocent for some reason or another, I was, well, prepared to rant on and on about it like mad for days upon learning that, in the very last five or so pages of the whole thing, that little Twoflower (omg I luv that little guy!)...er...has ferociously little chances of turning up in any of the other books (mutters this rather quickly). As a writer myself, I can tell that we can only imagine what writing that had to have been like for the author. Believe me, if you've been working with a set of characters for a couple hundred pages, you kinda get attatched to them after a while. But hey: he did it, and at least a couple people in the world totally freaked.
However, there is something to be said for it all--it takes one freakishly good author to do something like that to us all. A terrible author would write a book that's so mind-numbingly dull, that the readers aren't interested in anyone in the story, and if someone leaves the plot, let's put it that way, no one really feels much of anything. But there are good authors out there, fortunately. For example, in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Two Towers", one might curiously thumb through the back pages of what we'll call THE SPIDER INCIDENT, and really, really, really get scared by the way it is all described. Think of all the arachnophobics in the world. But he thing is, one gets really into a story by an incredibly good author, and the true test of the author's worth is how the readers react when someone the've seen throughout the whole thing is unexpectedly "let go". The same goes for Douglas Adams's "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish". I'm not saying a word about what happens there, but throughout the third and fourth book, it is impossible not to wonder what in the world is going to happen to Marvin, my second favorite!! (Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged RULES THE HOUSE!)
So, the only point I'm trying to get to here is that: one-if Twoflower shows up again by whatever means in the other 24 books, I plan to jump for joy despite Lemony Snicket's warnings and do the happy dance or something, and two-Pratchett is an obvious literary genius, and this is indisputably one of the best books I've ever read in my life. Kapeesh.
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