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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Honestly, I can't really say that this book as anything outside of its Australian references has any substancial grounds in the Discworld series. I'm not going to look back on The Last Continent and think, "damn, do you remember when..." because there wasn't much to remember. The first 200 pages felt so plodding, trying to set up this entire concept, that it just falls flat. I laughed, there was some good jokes, and the Pratchian wit is still in full force here as with many of his works, but the plot or the characters are just not really enjoyable.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
Not one of his greatest, but still pretty amazing. 5 stars <3
Featuring the fact that books exist in a separate L universe, on human evolution & fish being amazingly fish shaped, don’t go digging up things in case they won’t let you bury them again, cruel and unusual geography, wizards’ inability to comprehend the concept of a bathing suit (where are the 40 useful poquets and sequined occult symbols?), a wizard without a hat is just a sad man with a suspicious taste in clothes, truly terrifying kangaroos, Rincewind’s no good, very bad australian trip incidently breaking the space time continuum, 7 wizards trying & failing to build a boat, pasta bush, custard squash, the crowbar of understanding, curse ‘you will get rained on at some point in your life’, an atheist god, ‘no worries’, the world revolving around dung beetles according to the God of evolution, seven awkward grown men incapable of describing the sexual reproduction process, we should all replace sex with bridge or croquet to ensure the survival of the species, bear as basically runny bread, the pinnacle of huma evolution being the cockroach, as though Machiavelli had written a cookery book, no improvised cooking recipes after midnight (the famous stomach bread - flour and water), a well structured memo could do more real damage than a fireball every time, Rincewind as a champion sheep sheerer (& hairdresser), never insult anyone wearing black leather, especially drag queens, Bursar inventing surfing, Darlene’s deadly stiletto heel, Trunky!, a tower taller at the top than at the bottom, the invention of marmite, dry regatta, the word for the smell of air after rain.
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
начиналось медленно, по ощущениям долго ничего не происходило; много пошлостей, как водится в цикле о волшебниках, но приключения Ринсвинда достаточно задорные, я частенько хихикала
порадовала отсылка к «Безумному Максу»
как водится, не все объяснено в достаточной степени, чтобы меня удовлетворить
интересно почитать в оригинале, посмотреть, как там представлен австралийский сленг / пародия на него
в общем, ставлю четыре с минусом
порадовала отсылка к «Безумному Максу»
как водится, не все объяснено в достаточной степени, чтобы меня удовлетворить
интересно почитать в оригинале, посмотреть, как там представлен австралийский сленг / пародия на него
в общем, ставлю четыре с минусом
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes