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The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

7 reviews

_al's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This one for me much more engaging and funnier than the first one. Not without its problems and some things didn't land - notably, I'm not a fun of Bethan and Cohen thing. I recognize that it's a jab I just don't think it's a good one.
Worldbuilding continues to be the most interesting part for me. Still just as rich, but in this one, it felt more seamless than previous one.
Another surprising thing for me was Rincewind and his not grand, but still very present character arc. Made him not just funny protagonist but funny and genuinely very interesting for me to follow. Twoflower was also funny and much more balanced in his sincerity and romantic ideals, and being a jab at tourist and tourism. 
Overall, a good block of fascinating worldbuilding for the series with a funny and more or less interesting to follow story with solid characters. .5 for being genuinely engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Drug use and Injury/Injury detail

Relationship between seventeen year old girl and eighty-something man. There are talks about the wedding and suggestive/semi-explicit dialog between said man and another character about said relationship. But outside of it, nothing more is shown. Part of the joke, and shown as such but treated semi-serious.

ampharos906's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

nightstitch96's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Body horror

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism and Body horror

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, and Sexual content

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous funny

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Moderate: Drug use and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol and Suicide

bluejayreads's review

adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

This picks up exactly where The Colour of Magic left off and continues the story, which is the most continuity I’ve found in the Discworld series so far. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, since this book does nicely wrap up all the plot threads started in the previous one, but it does mean that the things I didn’t like as much about book one were continued here. 

Starting with Twoflower. At least the story acknowledges how obnoxious he is, making him a sort of commentary on tourists in general, but he was just as obnoxious. It also was very heavy on what I’ve termed Introduction to Discworld content – the kind of stuff like how the great turtle that the Discworld is on works, and how the day/night cycle works on a flat world, and a brief sampling of a lot of different places and aspects of Disc life. 

There was more plot-related stuff here, too, with the spell in Rincewind’s head having a reason for being there and the whole fact that the Disc might be about to come to an end if Rincewind can’t fix it. Even though it really was a continuation of book one, the plot finally kicked into gear and it felt like more of a story and less of an Introduction to Discworld with characters doing things. Rincewind himself even got a bit of a character arc, which was nice to see. 

The Light Fantastic is very much a world-focused book. And despite how difficult I find it to enjoy a book whose characters are hard to connect to and that lacks a plot I can really sink my teeth into, I did enjoy this book. Rincewind and Twoflower go all over the place, and despite mostly-flat characters and an overall lackluster plot, it’s hard to hate a book with this many cool settings and fantasy creatures to encounter. Plus this book is where the hilarious one-liners and amusing metaphors start to show up, and I adore Sir Terry’s sense of humor. This definitely isn’t my favorite Discworld book, but it’s still perfectly readable and often entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

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booksthatburn's review against another edition

lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This follows the continuing adventures of Rincewind and Twoflower. Unfortunately I still can’t stand either one of them and the tone of the quips feels off. The pacing was better than THE COLOR OF MAGIC, but this one was a miss for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Drug use, Gore, Body horror, and Death