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- This product had a total of 1,009 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 29 2019.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It reads differently from 1993 and certainly from what it it would have in 1983
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
At the start this book takes a little effort but once you let yourself be carried away with the discworld there will be no going back for you
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Divided into four sections it tells the tale of the discs first tourist an insurance salesman called twoflower who hires the cowardly failed wizard rincewind as his guide
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All the elements of pratchetts style are there but its a book far more concerned with parodying fantasy novels and films than with telling its own story
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If youve not read the source texts and all are books that were a lot more popular in the early 1980s than they are now then quite large sections of the book just appear to be cheesy fantasy rather than knowing parody
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As the discworld series developed pratchett quietly jettisoned quite large chunks of the lore he established here
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Even the immediate sequel the light fantastic is streets ahead of this first novel
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you have never read a discworld novel this is the place to start
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