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The Last Continent
by Terry Pratchett
My quest to read all of the Discworld books continues, once more wildly out of order. In The Last Continent the wizards of Unseen University are once more bumbling through history and time, mucking things up. Rincewind is also in the thick of it, stuck on XXXX, the last continent created.
Pratchett's trade-mark humor is very much in evidence, though there are a few anachronistic references that are jarring in the book and which his later books lack. Rincewind is one of my least favorite characters, hence the reason this book is one of the very last Discworld books I had left to read. I put it off as long as I could. The Last Continent is a send up of Australia and all the weird and wacky things about that particular continent and its people. Pratchett's satire is quite overt in this book and I think he's at his best when he's subtle. For instance, anyone with two brain cells will know within a single chapter that XXXX is a stand-in for Australia - there is no need to outright state that in the opening page.
While this book did have me laughing and there were some interesting insights occasionally, overall it's not Pratchett's best work and not one of my favorites. I'm not sorry I read it but I'm definitely eager to move on to something else in the Discworld.
Pratchett's trade-mark humor is very much in evidence, though there are a few anachronistic references that are jarring in the book and which his later books lack. Rincewind is one of my least favorite characters, hence the reason this book is one of the very last Discworld books I had left to read. I put it off as long as I could. The Last Continent is a send up of Australia and all the weird and wacky things about that particular continent and its people. Pratchett's satire is quite overt in this book and I think he's at his best when he's subtle. For instance, anyone with two brain cells will know within a single chapter that XXXX is a stand-in for Australia - there is no need to outright state that in the opening page.
While this book did have me laughing and there were some interesting insights occasionally, overall it's not Pratchett's best work and not one of my favorites. I'm not sorry I read it but I'm definitely eager to move on to something else in the Discworld.