When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time h... read full description
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Dec 17, 2009
Theresa
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"Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel- merely terribly, terribly good at his job." p.2
"It wasn't that he was unaware of the despair and nobility of the human condition. It was just that as far as he was concerned you could stuff it." p.10
"Psst," it said.
"Not very," said Rincewind, who was in a state of mind where he couldn't resist it, "but I'm working on it." p.37
"He examined his conscience.
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"It wasn't that he was unaware of the despair and nobility of the human condition. It was just that as far as he was concerned you could stuff it." p.10
"Psst," it said.
"Not very," said Rincewind, who was in a state of mind where he couldn't resist it, "but I'm working on it." p.37
"He examined his conscience.
It sa More...
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Jan 31, 2012
V.paskov
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They indeed get better with each one. Though if I have to be honest Rincewind is kinda too guffy for me to actually get. Though at this point I think I am back on track with getting the sense of humor of Terry. Simply great, and funny indeed, weird but funny nonetheless.
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Nov 29, 2008
Chris
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The Discworld, being a flat world that is carried through space on the backs of four elephants, who in turn are standing - rather patiently, I think - on the back of a great turtle, is, understandably, a world awash in magic. There are magical creatures on the Disc - trolls and dwarfs and elves - and people who know how to use the magic that infuses the world. People like wizards.
If you want to be a wizard, there are ways to get there. The best thing you can do is to be the eighth s More...
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Dec 15, 2011
Xirxe
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Kurz vor der Krönung des neuen Erzkanzlers der Scheibenwelt ereignen sich merkwürdige Ding: Sein Hut verschwindet ebenso wie der künftige Erzkanzler selbst. Statt dessen taucht Münze auf, ein kleiner Junge, der zu unglaublicher kreativer Magie fähig ist, die jedoch nicht nur beeindruckend sondern auch gefährlich ist. Münze beansprucht das Amt des Erzkanzlers, doch die Zaubererwelt ist gespalten. Bald bricht zwischen den Lagern ein Krieg aus und Rincewind, ein Meister im Weglaufen, ergreift die F
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Nov 24, 2011
Raelyn
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It is common knowledge on Discworld that wizards aren’t to have sex, in fact it is part of the Lore, but until now it wasn’t explained why. In the 5th edition to this wonderful series, Pratchett tells the story of a wizard who went against the Lore and had seven sons, all wizards, and then an eighth son who was a sourcerer- being a source of magic. The Disc, however, is not a good place for all this magic, and so things start to fall apart–literally! We welcome back Rincewind to save the day,
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Nov 02, 2011
Христо
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Осми син на осми син на осми син… “Магизточник” на Тери Пратчет
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Пак е намесено дърво. От родословен тип, де. Не че и такова не може да оживее сред пратчетовия свят. Осми син на магьосник се ражда… или по-просто – осми син на осми син на осми син. Той обаче не ще да е просто магьосник – той е магизточник – концентратор на магия, пред която обитателите на Невидимия университет изглеждат като невинни илюзионисти. И тъй като тази роля безс More...
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Пак е намесено дърво. От родословен тип, де. Не че и такова не може да оживее сред пратчетовия свят. Осми син на магьосник се ражда… или по-просто – осми син на осми син на осми син. Той обаче не ще да е просто магьосник – той е магизточник – концентратор на магия, пред която обитателите на Невидимия университет изглеждат като невинни илюзионисти. И тъй като тази роля безс More...
Jul 23, 2011
• Wish I were reading actual copies of these books so that the footnotes would have asterisks in-text and appear at the bottom of the page they're supposed to be on. In pirated copies of Pratchett, they appear at the end of the whole text document. :(
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It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration. There's a lot of spadework first, of course, but what clincheMore...
May 15, 2011
Bjoern
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Feb 15, 2011
Laurie
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No, that title isn’t a misspelling. It’s one of Pratchett’s plays on words that he’s so fond of. Because in this book – which was the fifth Discworld novel- sourcery is when magic goes beyond wizardry and taps into the very source of magic- raw power that ordinary wizards can’t touch.
‘Sourcery’ takes on sword and sorcery fantasies, taking satirical swipes at pretty much all the big ones- Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Fantasia, The Tempest, Conan the Barbarian, 1001 Nights, Fafhrd and Gre More...
‘Sourcery’ takes on sword and sorcery fantasies, taking satirical swipes at pretty much all the big ones- Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Fantasia, The Tempest, Conan the Barbarian, 1001 Nights, Fafhrd and Gre More...
Jan 13, 2011
Genie
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The eighth son of an eighth son has an eighth son named Coin, a child sorcerer. Ten-year-old Coin, guided by his staff imbued with the spirit of his sorcerer father, decides he is the true ruler of Discworld and starts by taking over as Archchancellor of Unseen University by overpowering anyone who stands in his way. Patrician Vetinari is powerless against him, leaving the future of Discworld on the brink of the Apocalypse. This powerful, untempered magic will destroy Discworld and cause the ret
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Jul 10, 2010
Jeff
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Apr 26, 2010
Bertrand
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Les annales du Disque-Monde constituent l’œuvre majeure de l’anglais Terry Pratchett, qui y a gagné ses galons d’humoriste reconnu et vénéré. Avec plus de 30 volumes au compteur, voilà une série qui a séduit bien des lecteurs et suscité un enthousiasme sans cesse renouvelé. Un monde plat et rond, porté par quatre éléphants eux-mêmes juchés sur la carapace d’une énorme tortue. Tout ça a de quoi surprendre. Sur ce gigantesque disque, un univers inspiré des romans de fantasy, peuplé de dieux, sorci
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Sep 16, 2011
Matthew
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Sourcery is about where Terry Pratchett seems to hit his stride with the early Discworld books. The first two are more travelogues and Equal Rites is there to set up the Witches and how they operate as opposed to the the Wizards. Mort is about Death, or more precisely, what it's like when Death decides he's had enough and needs a holiday. Sourcery takes all of those threads and weaves them in to a new bit.
Rincewind returns as the bumbling wizard who ultimately saves the world and he More...
Rincewind returns as the bumbling wizard who ultimately saves the world and he More...
Feb 21, 2011
Graham
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A decent enough entry in the Discworld series, but I found it lacked some of the freshness of the earlier entries like THE LIGHT FANTASTIC. It may be that the plot, about the intervention into the Discworld of a new and impossibly powerful kind of magic, is a bit limited, with endless descriptions of the growing power wreaking all kinds of havoc.
Pratchett weaves an adventure romp into this journey and he populates it with some of his best characters, so it's not all bad. Conina is wo More...
Pratchett weaves an adventure romp into this journey and he populates it with some of his best characters, so it's not all bad. Conina is wo More...
Dec 16, 2009
Ioan
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Oh, how I always tell others that being yourself is really the only thing one can do at a level of somewhat perfection (well, that and running away. Really, I have seen people that have created the Godly Level at that...) but yet again, I never managed to put it in a magi-war surrounding, with stuff flying all around and things warping into other things. Maybe that would have been more convincing.
So, getting back were we should be (or better said, as Pratchett would put it, we are al More...
So, getting back were we should be (or better said, as Pratchett would put it, we are al More...
May 02, 2011
La Stamberga dei Lettori
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L'otto è un numero con profonde valenze simbolico-esoteriche nel Mondo Disco: l'ottavo figlio di un ottavo figlio diventa un mago. Ma cosa succederebbe se un mago, obbligato per status al celibato, invece si sposasse e avesse a sua volta otto figli? L'ottavo figlio nascerebbe stregone, dotato cioè di una pericolosa concentrazione di poteri magici come non se ne vedevano dall'alba dei tempi, nell'epoca della stregoneria, prima che la magia venisse addomesticata in una forma meno pericolosa per il
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Nov 03, 2011
Lucy
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Feb 04, 2012
Tim
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(1) This book doesn't have chapters. Sure, it has those little pauses where they add a few extra lines whenever perspective switches to a new character - but other that that it sort of just unspools. So that's unusual.
(2) Sourcery is pretty much the opposite of a Monet: the little details are perfect but the overall picture is a huge mess. Terry Pratchett has an obvious and well-utilized gift for the clever one-liner and the funny gag. In terms of joke quality, he falls somewhat More...
(2) Sourcery is pretty much the opposite of a Monet: the little details are perfect but the overall picture is a huge mess. Terry Pratchett has an obvious and well-utilized gift for the clever one-liner and the funny gag. In terms of joke quality, he falls somewhat More...
Nov 21, 2010
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May 31, 2010
Luann
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If I told you I had just finished a book that has a school for wizards that continually changes its floor plan, a wizard who talks to a snake, and a wizard's hat that talks, you would know exactly which book I had just read, right? Well, if you are a Terry Pratchett fan, you would know that I have just read his fifth Discworld book, Sourcery. I wonder if J.K. Rowling is a Terry Pratchett fan?
Rincewind the wizard is back, and once again he is called upon to save the world. He gets hel More...
Rincewind the wizard is back, and once again he is called upon to save the world. He gets hel More...
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Aug 19, 2009
Mel
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Yet another book starring our beloved Rincewind. In this book we meet the boy Coin, the first sourcerer in ages, posessed of his father’s staff he begins to renovate first the Unseen University, then Ankh-Morpork, and spreading on over the remainder of the Disc. In the meantime, Rincewind is being forced first to hide away the remainder of the Wizard’s Magic, with the help of Cohen’s long lost daughter, Conina, a want-to-be hair dresser, that he finds he has feelings for. However, she has eye
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Aug 11, 2011
Helen
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Goes someway to explaining why wizards aren't allowed to have sex - it appears to be far too dangerous for the rest of the world.
A sourcerer appears at the gates of the Unseen University and demands to be crowned archchancellor, as he's plainly the most powerful wizard. After a few protestors are, um, quietened down, the wizards attempt to comply - only the Archchancellor's hat has had other ideas and has managed to get itself stolen. It travels across the ocean by means of Rincewind (a failed More...
A sourcerer appears at the gates of the Unseen University and demands to be crowned archchancellor, as he's plainly the most powerful wizard. After a few protestors are, um, quietened down, the wizards attempt to comply - only the Archchancellor's hat has had other ideas and has managed to get itself stolen. It travels across the ocean by means of Rincewind (a failed More...
Jul 05, 2011
Myth
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I enjoyed the book, though the writing style seems like it isn't as good as later books.
This isn't among my favorites. I enjoyed the parts about the Wizards, the Apocalypse and Rincewind, but the cast of characters Rincewind ends up finding I didn't like very much and the luggage parts were suppose to be funny, but I had kind of hard time pushing out a chuckle for it.
Other than the first two books, I've noticed I don't particularly like the books about the academy and More...
This isn't among my favorites. I enjoyed the parts about the Wizards, the Apocalypse and Rincewind, but the cast of characters Rincewind ends up finding I didn't like very much and the luggage parts were suppose to be funny, but I had kind of hard time pushing out a chuckle for it.
Other than the first two books, I've noticed I don't particularly like the books about the academy and More...
Aug 12, 2009
Melanie
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Yet another book starring our beloved Rincewind. In this book we meet the boy Coin, the first sourcerer in ages, posessed of his fathers staff he begins to renovate first the Unseen University, then Ankh-Morpork, and spreading on over the remainder of the Disc. In the meantime, Rincewind is being forced first to hide away the remainder of the Wizards Magic, with the help of Cohens long lost daughter, Conina, a want-to-be hair dresser, that he finds he has feelings for. However, she has eye
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Oct 05, 2011
Rosalind
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There are Pratchett books which are cleverly written and have something to say in an unusual and distinctive way that puts him up on a par with PG Wodehouse as a satirist (that's a compliment, by the way). There are others, especially amongs his earlier books, that fall well short of that standard. Sourcery is one of them. It's a bit of a turkey, really, something that reads like an early rejected manuscript being trotted out by the publisher to cash in on the success of the really rather goo
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Apr 22, 2011
Leo
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Another amusing book about the strangeness that is the disc world. In this one, we get acquainted with some real magic. Not the kind wielded by mere wizards, but the kind master by a sorcerer. A wizard is the eighth son of an eighth son, but if a wizard has eight sons of his own, the eighth one becomes a sorcerer. This is the reason wizards must be celibate, because sorcery is way to powerful for the world. In fact, it will end it, as it once almost did thousands of years ago before the use of m
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Jan 25, 2009
Macie
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Sourcery caters a little too much to the Dungeons and Dragons crowd for my taste, but like all of Pratchett's books it's still a fun read. I'm just not a huge fan of wizards and prefer Pratchett characters with a little more inner conflict. For some inexplicable reason I find one of the exchanges in this book to be one of the funniest things I've read by Pratchett--even after I've read it probably a dozen times it makes me laugh. There is a scene where Rincewind faces Coin the sourcerer with a h
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Jan 04, 2011
MonsterAteMy
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Can't seem to get enough of the Discworld books these days; they're so much fun!
I was so happy to have Rincewind back as a primary character, and even happier to get more interaction with the Luggage.
In the Discworld, the eighth son of an eighth son is destined to be a wizard. Wizards are generally celibate; they don't marry. But what if they did? The eighth son of a wizard would be a wizard-squared; a sourcerer.
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I was so happy to have Rincewind back as a primary character, and even happier to get more interaction with the Luggage.
In the Discworld, the eighth son of an eighth son is destined to be a wizard. Wizards are generally celibate; they don't marry. But what if they did? The eighth son of a wizard would be a wizard-squared; a sourcerer.
When the young sourcerer arrives at Unseen University, trouble f More...
Jul 08, 2010
Vanita
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Not Pratchett's best book, both stylistically and plot-wise, but a fun read nevertheless.
These are my favorite quotes from the book:
"The wizard [...:] picked up a long staff [...:]. It was made of a black metal, with a meshwork of silver and gold carvings that gave it a rich and sinister tastelessness".
"'[...:] And what would humans be without love?'
RARE, said Death."
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These are my favorite quotes from the book:
"The wizard [...:] picked up a long staff [...:]. It was made of a black metal, with a meshwork of silver and gold carvings that gave it a rich and sinister tastelessness".
"'[...:] And what would humans be without love?'
RARE, said Death."
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Sep 11, 2009
Tasha
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While not my favourite of the Discworld series Sourcery was still thoroughly enjoyable. There's reasons why wizards aren't allowed to fall in love. A wizard squared (the 8th son of an 8th son of an 8th son) is a sourcerer. Sourcerers are more powerful than normal wizards and when one sets out to become Arch-chancellor of the Unseen University and have wizards rule the Discworld, it's down to Rincewind, Nijel the Destroyer and Conina the Hairdresser, daughter of Cohen the Barbarian to thwart thos
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