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A review by tomasthanes
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
4.0
So I've finally finished my first Terry Prachett novel. It's about time. (It's about space. It's about some people in the strangest place.)
It was very light hearted in the same way that Douglas Adams' books are, but there they depart company. Terry wrote 40 Discworld books (plus others) while Douglas Adams confined his Hitchhiker series to just 5 books (plus others). (Thanks to [a:Neil Gaiman|1221698|Neil Gaiman|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1234150163p2/1221698.jpg] for pointing out the comparison in a blog post he wrote in 2004.)
Rincewind and Twoflower start in the town of Ankh-Morpork, meet up with heroes like Bravd, the Weasel, and Hrun, brave the Wyrmberg, and end up (spoiler?) over the rim of the world.
Pratchett's "gods" (and demigods) are a comical bunch, Keystone Cops in Dunmanifestin. Petty and imperfect but having more power than they can handle. They are more like the Greek or Roman pantheons. They, in turn, are governed by the "Old High Ones" (undefined in this book) but probably just as fickle.
It was very light hearted in the same way that Douglas Adams' books are, but there they depart company. Terry wrote 40 Discworld books (plus others) while Douglas Adams confined his Hitchhiker series to just 5 books (plus others). (Thanks to [a:Neil Gaiman|1221698|Neil Gaiman|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1234150163p2/1221698.jpg] for pointing out the comparison in a blog post he wrote in 2004.)
Rincewind and Twoflower start in the town of Ankh-Morpork, meet up with heroes like Bravd, the Weasel, and Hrun, brave the Wyrmberg, and end up (spoiler?) over the rim of the world.
Pratchett's "gods" (and demigods) are a comical bunch, Keystone Cops in Dunmanifestin. Petty and imperfect but having more power than they can handle. They are more like the Greek or Roman pantheons. They, in turn, are governed by the "Old High Ones" (undefined in this book) but probably just as fickle.