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The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is #1 in the infamous Discworld series, and it introduces us to a Flat disc world that sits on the backs of 4 giant elephants who in turn are standing on a giant space turtle, the Great A’Tuin. Rincewind, one of the periodically recurring characters, gets involved with a tourist named Twoflower and has to keep him out of trouble. We are also introduced to the city of Ankh-Morpork, and its ruler, the Patrician Vetinari. This is humorous fantasy of the highest, and Pratchett said he wanted to make “an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns.” I highly recommend it. I listened to the audio book version, and in this case I think I prefer it since the reader did genuine “voice acting” that brought it alive.



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