A review by roadtripreader
Eric by Terry Pratchett

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

No painful belly laughs with this one. No longwinded chuckles or even a giggle- but I did snort a bit as laughter began but didn't reach its full potential. The book did bring out all the smiles of seeing a long-lost friend.

I'm pretty sure Rincewind was meant to be a tour guide not a wizard - albeit a reluctant tour guide. He always finds himself in situations where he's leading people through strange and new lands. Sure he's usually running for his life on these "tours" but he's a good enough guide to get people back home in one piece, kinda ...of sorts.

The Luggage😂. I am once again asking for and emoji of a case with a hundred tiny feet. We deserve this kindness.
What Do We Want? Discworld emojis for Discworldians.
When do we want it? Before Great A'Tuin reaches his destination

Plot and Themes:
Eric is on an odyssey and he'll be damned if he doesn't get his three wishes stat. Or he'll tell his mom who has a set if lungs on her. Rincewind as per  his destiny as "the favored one" is dragged across the disc by meddling external forces who think his life is a piece of putty to be squashed about and flung at the rim.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Death as a beekeeper is not something I had on my bingo-card but you know what it's got a nice symmetry to it : Death keeps the world turning by reaping souls and ensuring everyone meets their demise in a timely fashion. Death is a caretaker for the one insect that has power over the entire planet and its livelihood. So yeah, Death as a beekeeper works.

Favorite/Curious/Unique Scene:
⚜️Into the belly of the Tezuman Empire
⚜️You can always count on The Luggage even in the face of a god (Lowercase g and actually more demon):
⚜️The Tsortean-Ephebian war was hilarious. Actually, I could go for a kebab tight now.
⚜️The Bill, Nowhere, the beginning of the universe... and is that The Creator 😯 oh yeah: Death has a conversation with Astfgl at the end of time.
⚜️"My name is Urglefloggah, Spawn of the Pit and Loathly Guardian of the Dread Portal: How May I Help You?” ... Basically welcome to Hell.

Favorite/Curious/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “The problem with being evil, he’d been forced to admit, was that demons were not great innovatory thinkers and really needed the spice of human ingenuity.” (Astfgl, King of Demons)
🖤 “Pre-eminent amongst Rincewind’s talents was his skill in running away, which over the years he had elevated to the status of a genuinely pure science; it didn’t matter if you were fleeing from or to, so long as you were fleeing” (😂 never change dude)
🖤 “Luggage had been pretty annoyed to start with although with the Luggage there wasn’t any reliable way of telling because it spent all its time beyond, in a manner of speaking, the hostility event horizon.” (Luggage to the rescue)

Favorite/Curious/Unique Concepts:
■ Rite of AshkEnte, Fountain of Youth(🤷🏽‍♀️)
■Quezovercoatl,The Feathered Boa
■Dunmanifestin, Pandemonium, Pseudopolis
■ Wossname Parrot
■The Ephebians Horse: Tsortean Wars!
■Heliodeliphilodelphiboschromenos

GR Rating: 3⭐
CAWPILE: 6.5
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