Book Summary — A Discworld Novel

#1 Colour of Magic & #2 Light Fantastic

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I love reading fantasy books.

After every 3 to 4 “serious” books, I usually break it up with a fantasy book.

It was time for me to read a fantasy book.

Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is a series of dozens of books in a universe where anything is possible and totally random. All your fantasy free reign and you will still be surprised.

#1 — Colour of Magic

The Colour of Magic is an excellent easy read to catapult your mind into a different, fast-moving, funny and random world.

The book reminds me strongest of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as it is fairly similar in randomness and humour.

Randomness and humour are the two things which make this book / series so special.

Terry Pratchett — whose name I keep seeing everywhere — paints a beautiful world, which is nothing like anyone else could have dreamt up.

To give you a little insight into what I mean by random:

The Discworld sits on top of elephants on top of a giant turtle, which slowly moves through space. There are heroes, dragons, magic which only works once, death is a character, gods are actively involved in the world and characters cross dimensions, so there is even a scene in an airplane. The book completely recreates its own rules and defies any assumed/common logic.

It’s a great and easy read to stimulate your creative mind.

#2 — Light Fantastic

Here are just a couple of extracts from the book which depict the nature of ridicule, fantasy, tangents and detail in the book:

Tree Religion

Rincewind never spoke to this particular tree again, but from that brief conversation it spun the basis of the first tree religion, which, in time, swept the forests of the world, Its tenet of faith was this; a tree that was a good tree, and led a clean, decent and upstanding life, could be assured of a future life after death, If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

Personification of Objects

The luggage said nothing, but louder this time.

Hollywood movie escape

He had another pull at the ropes that bound him. There was a rock behind him, and if he could bring his wrists up — yes, as he thought, it lacerated him while at the same time being too blunt to have any effect on the rope.

Madmen

“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out,” said the shopkeeper. “That’s what I’ve always thought. No one gets mad quicker than a totally sane person.”