A review by kassiani
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

3.75

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.