Optional reviewed Die Farben der Magie by Terry Pratchett
Doesn't pop
1 étoile
On re-read I was very disappointed. It focuses too much on the comedy and forgets to tell a story.
Full review here.
eBook, 293 pages
Langue : English
Publié 14 avril 2014 par HarperCollins.
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...
On re-read I was very disappointed. It focuses too much on the comedy and forgets to tell a story.
Full review here.
I almost didn't want to re-read this one because it is so overshadowed in my mind by the series it would spawn. It's weirdly structured and unfocused - more like four sequential short stories than a novel - but it's still an incredible romp across the freshly imagined Discworld (and beyond).