This is a small gripe though as there are very few fantasy books that are as well written and enjoyable as this, I really fell in behind Rincewind and sincerely hoped that a happy end and a certain degree of respect was in store for the much happened-upon wizard. I felt that the storyline sometimes suffered in the search for yet more laughs.
This works most of the time but it did seem at certain points that Pratchett was trying to be too funny, too often. The writing style is the same as The Colour of Magic with the emphasis heavily on humour. There is only one person who can save the world but unfortunately this is the rather inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind who was last seen falling of the edge of the world.Īs The Light Fantastic starts we are once again re-united with Rincewind the wizard, Twoflower the tourist and of course, his luggage. This two-in-one volume was first published in 1999.The Light Fantastic is the second Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett and picks up the story that was begun in The Colour of Magic.Ī red star has appeared in the sky and the Discworld is heading right towards it. The Light Fantastic, published in 1986, follows closely behind, and of all the Discworld novels it is the only true sequel to an earlier work. Just read it! First published in 1983, The Colour of Magic has been translated into thirty languages, and has sold over two million copies in Corgi editions alone. Here is Death, not such a bad sort when you get to know him. Here is Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. Here is Twoflower, an innocent tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales gone wrong.
Here is the sapient pearwood Luggage, a mobile trunk which launders any clothes put in it and incidentally homicidally defends its owner. This was the book that started the phenomenally successful fantasy series. In The Colour of Magic the failed wizard Rincewind burst upon the world and hasn't stopped running since. Description The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic: This is how the Discworld began.
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