The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Color of Magic
Book Review: The Earth Is Flat!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Discworld (which, Pratchett informs us, is in a distant second-hand set of dimensions and an astral plane that was nevef meant to fly) is, as the name implies, a disc, resting on the four huge elephants Berilia, Tubul, Jerakeen, and T'Phon, who, in turn, stand on the immense turtle Great A'Tuin.
Pausing only to include a lengthy footnote about the structure and cosmology of the Disc (which explains why the Disc gods are blamed more than worshipped), Pratchett launches into spoofs and lambastations of the medieval world, tourism, presonified natural forces, the Number of the Beast, the Pern books, imaginary dragons, dimension shifts, the medieval practice of blinding or killing great artisans who have done great works, space exploration, mythology, tides, death...
I could go on for pages. Read this and die...
...laughing.
-Alan
Book Review: The BEST fantasy book, EVER
Summary: 5 Stars
Gee...what can i say...I have never read a better book than this. I just LOVE Pratchetts humor and I can bet on that you will love the humor and the book too.This book is about the incompetent wizard Rincewind who has a spell stuck in his mind, and it is a evil spell because it has trown out the other spells' he had learn(do you want to know more about the spell, read the book, you wont regret it!). He has also a friend(?) wich is called twoflower and he is a turist in Rincewinds home city: Ankh-Morpork, the city with the...different smell... TwoFlower has a luggage with him wich is made of Intelligent Pearwood(something like that...) and has a mind of his own(and about 100 legs(!)).
So, I recomend EVERYONE that has ever thought about to read a fantasy book to read this one, it is superb.
If you(somehow) wants to contact me, do it here: Baldorf@Hotmail.Com
Don't forget to read the sequel, The Light Fantastic...
Book Review: A great book to start with, well worth a read
Summary: 5 Stars
Terry Pratchett is a well respected author, and to date
has released over 15 books in the Discworld range. The
book gets off to a fast-paced start, and continues this
way until the inevitable, but hilarious end. The
characters are well written and the plot is good. If you
have read other Pratchett books, be prepareed to hear the
same old jokes again. In the first ten books Terry seems
to feel the need to tell everyone the overall plot many
times. Later on, he assumes that you have read previous
books. This book, like others of Terry's are difficult
for Dyslexics to read as most of the jokes are puns and
require a competent reader. On the whole, a brilliant
book to start the Discworld series on.Book Review: A hilarious venture into the mind of a bumbling magician.
Summary: 5 Stars
A lighthearted and truly funny story of a magician who
is a disgrace to his profession, an insurance salesman from a long
lost continent, and a trunk with hundreds of legs that would
follow it's master into oblivion.
This book by Terry Pratchett is the beginning of his
discworld series. If you have read any other of the
Discworld novels, you will know what I mean when I say that
the obviosly intelligent Terry Pratchett creates a world and
characters that almost reach out and say, "hey, you! Yes,
YOU!! Come 'ere, stop what you're doing, sit down, and keep on
reading." Far too many times I find myself listening to
that little voice. Many a report from yours truly have
come in late thanks to Mr. Pratchett.
While not quite appropriate reading for youngsters,
this book and it's offspring do not sink into raunchy scenes
or tasteless vulgarity. I would recommend this book to a
very mature teenager or above.
Favorite quote (from memory, not quite perfect): "If
pure chaos was lightning, this chap would be one to stand
on top of a hill, in wet copper armor, screaming at the top
of his lungs, 'All gods are bastards!'"