{"id":9745,"date":"2021-05-31T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2021-05-31T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:34:37","slug":"the-colour-of-magic-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=9745","title":{"rendered":"The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong>The Colour of Magic” <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>by Terry Pratchett<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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(His first Discworld novel)<\/p>\n

\u2018A fantastic book that is quite absurd and I really didn\u2019t expect to like it at all, in fact I\u2019m furious that I actually enjoyed it\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n

Quote from a book club member<\/p>\n

The Colour of Magic <\/em>is set on a world sitting on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). The main characters are an avaricious but inept wizard called Rincewind, who becomes completely beguiling as the story unravels, and a naive tourist called Two Flower, whose rather menacing luggage follows closely behind moving on hundreds of legs. There are dragons aplenty, who only exist if you believe in them. Many eccentric adventures occur which take twists and turns as the travellers are whisked ever nearer to THE EDGE of the planet.<\/p>\n

Terry Pratchett takes the seriousness out of the usual fantasy genre and replaces it with a really wicked sense of humour. He creates a beautifully imagined world with wonderfully described characters. This is obviously an excellent place to start reading Pratchett\u2019s novels as it gives the background history of the main characters. The action starts in Ahnk Morpork, a city that becomes firmly implanted in the memory.<\/p>\n

This is perhaps the first book read by the group which has left us unsure who to recommend it to! We did all agree that it was terrifically written, and if you managed to persevere past the first three chapters it was all great fun.<\/p>\n

An overall score of 7 was finally agreed<\/p>\n

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OFF THE SHELF “The Colour of Magic” by Terry Pratchett   (His first Discworld novel) \u2018A fantastic book that is quite absurd and I really didn\u2019t expect to like it at all, in fact I\u2019m furious that I actually enjoyed it\u2019. 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