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In The Colour of Magic you got the feeling that most of the ridiculousness of Discworld was Twoflower’s insistence on touring a very real and dangerous world and only surviving due to the influence of the Lady. The sword and sorcery analogues could have come from their own, serious stories. Cohen the octogenarian barbarian is a firm (and welcome) break from the tone of the first Discworld book.
— May 25, 2024 03:32PM
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Jesse
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As far as climaxes go, Pratchett writes a pretty good action sequence. I remember quite a bit of what happens with Trymon from all those years ago. I also loved the traveling magical salesman. I’m pretty sure that this comes up again in another book but I couldn’t tell you which one exactly, even if my life depended on it.
— May 26, 2024 08:00AM
Jesse
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The bit with Rincewind getting worked by the Octavo and vaporizing one of the cultists, and the aftermath, is pretty good. I’m also a sucker for the Luggage terrorizing villains and this section is pretty good for it.
— May 25, 2024 08:49PM
Jesse
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Idk if Pratchett PLANNED on elaborating on Death’s adopted daughter when he first wrote Ysabell here but it’s the exact sort of thing worth writing its own book about. I love the exchange with the trolls, here, where they largely “die” by catching “philosophy”.
— May 25, 2024 08:06PM
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This is just plain more fun. The Colour of Magic sort of rubbed elbows with the sword and sorcery stories it was parodying; this hits just about the right tone of being a functional fantasy world that has stakes and is also just a parody of fantasy in general. I love the deeper look into the Unseen University and the Galder / Trymon adversaries.
— May 25, 2024 12:46PM
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The next stop on my Discworld retread. Maybe the first proper Discworld novel, insofar as The Colour of Magic was a picaresque tour through the fantasy pulp that Pratchett grew up on.
— May 25, 2024 07:51AM
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Also I completely forgot about their visit to Death’s house. I mean, it hadn’t happened yet, but I’m 99% sure they are about to bump into his adopted daughter (WHO WOULD LOVE FOR THEM TO STAY, BRANDISHING A SCYTHE) when looking for Twoflower’s spirit.
book and he is basically the steely badass you would expect him to be, beating dragon-riders and getting to marry the sexy and dangerous L!ssa while Rincewind and Twoflower engage in utter tomfoolery. Cohen is the same kind of character but aged sixty or so years with everything that implies about the elderly in our modern era, lineament oil and orthopedic hemerrhoid ring on his horse’s saddle and not even being able to carry the sacrificial virgin away because of his bad back.