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The Colour of Magic (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Colour of Magic (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: A Discworld novel
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Pratchett borrows from Babylonian cosmology for his second, wacky
flat-Earth yarn - set on an Earth.disk that rests on the backs of
four elephants, who themselves stand on the shell of an enormous
turtle. (And only Pratchett's characters would think of lowering
themselves over the edge of the disk-in order to determine the sex
of the turtle!) This time failed wizard Rincewind runs into
problems when he encounters rich, bumbling circum - disk tourist
Twoflower - whose luggage consists of a sapient pearwood box that
trots around after him on hundreds of tiny legs. . . and snaps its
lid at anyone it doesn't like. The innocent Twoflower sells some
fire insurance to a shifty innkeeper, who proceeds to burn down his
inn and the entire city of Ankh-Morpork. And what follows is madcap
travelogue, involving: the disk's zany, often magical inhabitants;
the Gods (atheists are liable to get their windows broken); a
watery being who splashed down in the ocean, having fallen off a
different Earth-disk; and Death with his scythe (whose timing is so
poor that Rincewind keeps evading him). Not quite the gleefully
insane parody Strata (1981) was, but frothy, inventive, and fun.
(Kirkus Reviews)
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naïve tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet…
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