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The Color of Magic
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Sir Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book - one of the absolutely funniest people in the world! Enough s…more

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Pinar Celebi
Before I started reading the book, I read/heard both nice and bad things about the book so I was kind of neutral. Plus, a lot has been written about the Discworld series so I had to give it a try. Unfortunately, there was noone around to tell me that I shouldn't start the series with this particular book.

Throughout the book, there was a ruch of introducing forgettable characters and forgettable places. At the end, the only characters I remembered were Rincewind, Twoflower and Death (my favourite
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Delitealex
Nov 12, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: science-fiction, tt4
I really enjoyed this book. I loved following Rincewind and Twoflower on their bumbling adventures. Wondering when and where the Luggage would show up was also fun. I can't wait to find out what happens next to Rincewind. ...more
Kari
Jul 01, 2015 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
This was my first true Pratchett experience. I must say I did find the book very funny and I enjoyed reading it. However I did find it hard to follow at times with some of the POV jumps and general silliness going on. I've heard this is a hard book to start with but you need it to explain other things in the series.

overall I would recommend this book and plan on continuing the series.
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Gen
Nov 02, 2011 marked it as complete-series-to-read
Arow
Dec 11, 2011 marked it as to-read
Janessa
Mar 25, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy, magic, humor
mussolet
Jun 17, 2012 marked it as 2024-shelf-challenge  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2021-sorted
Jackie
Jul 21, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy, humor
Barb
Jul 24, 2012 rated it it was ok
Beth
Jun 22, 2014 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Allison Ann
Jun 30, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: owned, src-sum14
Amy
Aug 05, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: first-in-series
Stephanie
Aug 24, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fantasy
Teddie
Apr 13, 2023 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, uno-red
Katharine
Jan 08, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: humorous-fiction
Juliette
Feb 01, 2016 marked it as to-read
Laura
Nov 11, 2016 marked it as to-read
Rusty
Jul 28, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
Kirby
Nov 30, 2017 marked it as i-ll-get-back-to-it-eventually  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: kindle, queue
Susan
Jan 06, 2018 rated it really liked it
Jessica
May 27, 2018 marked it as to-read
Elizabeth Stultz
Oct 28, 2018 marked it as to-read
Mary X
Jan 28, 2019 rated it liked it
Shelves: library, 2019