The Light Fantastic: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (MOBI)

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Ebook Info

  • Published: 2009
  • Number of pages: 293 pages
  • Format: MOBI
  • File Size: 0.74 MB
  • Authors: Terry Pratchett

Description

The side-splitting sequel to The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic by New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett takes readers on another offbeat journey with bumbling wizard Rincewind and hapless tourist Twoflower—both last seen falling off the edge of Discworld.The fate of Pratchett’s alternative fantasy macrocosm are in the bumbling duo’s hands as it hurtles its way toward a foreboding red star, threatening the fate of the entire universe. Sharp, sardonic, and brilliantly funny, in this third installment in the bestselling Discworld series, Pratchett once again earns his master satirist reputation, with witty wordplay and irreverent storytelling that fans are sure to love.

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⭐Terry Pratchett has written a classic tale of heroes on a quest to save the world. Just kidding! It’s Terry Pratchett and Discworld and there is nothing traditional about any of it. The pace is mad cap, the language is full of puns, the heroes are unlikely, the settings and sidekicks are even more unlikely, and the fun is nonstop. It should be impossible to write such pure nonsense that ends up making great sense. Once again, Terry Pratchett demonstrates how he is the master of a fantasy sub-genre that probably belongs to him alone. Clever, witty, rapid-fire. The Discworld novels fall into different categories: Tiffany Aching, Rincewind, the three witches, Sam Vines and the guards, and Death. This book is a novel of Rincewind. Each book focuses on one of them, although they cross over and pop up in each others’ books all the time. It is best if you start from the beginning of a grouping and work your way through, otherwise you’ll miss a lot of inside jokes, references, etc. There are charts on the internet that will show you the groupings. Having said that, I read Wee Free Men first, and it made me a fan. You can trust Terry Pratchett to not be too linear and to not be very predictable. Terry Pratchett does a wonderful job of maintaining the integrity of his absurd world and his characters while keeping everything fresh and creative. The humor is wrapped around serious themes. The characters have fantasy aspects, but they illustrate many universal truths of human nature. I cannot read too many of them in a row, but when I need something different, a Discworld novel is the perfect metaphorical palate refresher. Life on Discworld is threatened and extraordinary efforts by an eccentric unmatched team is required to restore balance. Rincewind is an extraordinarily inept wizard whose greatest talent is saving his own skin. He is assisted by the traveler Twoflower, the Luggage, Cohen the Barbarian, Bethan the Sacrificial Virgin, and others along the way. Like all the Discworld books, the tone is satirical and clever. This book did not make me laugh aloud as frequently as Wee Free Men, but it had its moments. Had to love the throw-away line about the luters! These books do not contain any scenes, language, or images that would rate even a PG-13 rating at the movies. If a reader does not have sufficient maturity, much of the book will be wasted, because you won’t get the jokes or understand the satire. I count myself lucky to still have so many novels of Discworld ahead of me.

⭐Never a dull moment with this one. There were parts that had never confused but overall, it was a fun and quarky story to follow. I enjoy The Color of Magic so naturally I expected to like this one… and I did for the most part. It’s a good candidate for theories and hypotheses. I plan to continue this series and see what is the essence of Discworld.

⭐This book lives up to the fantastic part of its title. Terry Pratchett managed to write a satisfying sequel to The Color of Magic, retaining all of the wacky characters, colorful locations, and general silliness of the first installment of the Discworld. I would say that the most exceptional thing about this book is the large cast of fleshed out characters. Despite the fact that the book itself isn’t very long, it introduced many new characters, each interesting in his or her own right, and gave each enough background and screen time that by the end of the volume, the reader feels that they know (and hopefully love) each well. The Discworld has grown with the cast, and the new history and set of locations will not disappoint. The addition of a stronger central plot has also done nothing to diminish the book’s considerable charm. The red star (which gamers may find remarkably similar to the ominous moon of Majora’s Mask) only acts as a catalyst for more craziness. Truly, fans of the first book will not be disappointed.Although The Light Fantastic is a wonderful book overall, there are some notable differences that may put off fans of the first book. First of all, there are no chapters in this. Everything is a block of text, lacking even the bulky chapters/short tales of the first volume. It can be difficult to find one’s place without a bookmark. Secondly, this is where the Discworld really starts to take on its own flavor. While it is a stunning setting and a wonderful world, sword and sorcery fans may be disappointed to see that it has distanced itself from S&S. No longer are there such blatant parodies as Bravd and the Weasel. Alas! Finally, there is much less of Death in this volume. This may not matter much to you, but Death was one of my favorite characters and it saddened me to see so little of him.Overall, I have no real complaints of this book. The things in the second paragraph are more differences than complaints. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed The Color of Magic, or to any latecomers who read more recent volumes first. This is one of the most enjoyable pieces of fantasy that I’ve read in a long time, and is a refreshing change from lengthy and serious works like A Song of Ice and Fire.

⭐This is well-crafted absurdity, that reads like non-sense but in the end makes sense in the 2nd half of the introduction to the DiscWorld you can feel the multi-dimensional universe evolve. We continue from the Color of Magic with our main characters arriving in a new locale, get into trouble, resolve the situation (or rather watch as someone else resolves it), and stumble onto the next location.In the first half of the adventure the story seemed random and ridiculous. As we start The Light Fantastic, we join the continuing journey of the unwilling wizard Rincewind and his travel companion and tourist, Twoflowers (along with his luggage) on a dizzying adventure with demonic possession, human sacrifice, lynch mobs, barbarian heros, trolls, world domination and the apocalypse.If you strip away the puns, weird settings and the unlikely heros, Pratchett basically wrote a classic tale of heroes on a quest to save the world except it was anything but classic or traditional. I also appreciate that the magic and fantasy was not stereotypical. There is lively dialogue, interesting characters and a good story, and of course, very funny in a Dad joke kind of way.Once you read a couple of pages you are hooked. It’s a great read and very original. I can’t wait to continue the magical craziness and reading Equal Rites.

⭐The late Sir Terry Pratchett had a brilliant sense of humour; he was extremely well read which clearly shows through his writing; excellent at one liners that catch you out causing real laugh out loud belly laughter; the ability to understand politics, social science, the “establishment” and many complex religious and historical theories and roll them into his books ‘tongue in cheek’ but never disrespectful. Where else could you read the plot of Macbeth with witches interwoven with dwarfs, trolls, eccentric academics and a rag rag mixture of a police force who include vampires, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves and a person assumed to be human called Nobby Nobs who is tentatively like Baldrick from the TV series “BlackAdder?”The majority of his characters were named after fans that he knew in RL. Each character with their individuality draws you in, makes you want to get to know them better and then makes it impossible for you to choose a favorite as you will love them all!All I can say is “Welcome to Discworld!” An imaginary disc, propped up by large elephants swimming through space on the back of a giant turtle. Once you read a couple of pages you are hooked. You are compelled to read the vast amount of Discworld books and then read them again, and again, and again!STP was taken by a form of dementia and passed away far too early and in his prime. It is certainly our loss but he lives through his wonderful Discworld characters – too many to mention and through his clever ingenious plots who I guarantee you will howl with laughter at.God bless you STP ! You certainly brightened up my life through Discworld. I just wish I could have met you !Enjoy reader! Enjoy!

⭐This is a great improvement on the first novel, the colour of magic. The characters are really beginning to evolve and there is more richness to the narration. Death is becoming more fleshed out so as to speak and developing into the multi layered personality we come to live in later novels. We are introduced to Cohen the barbarian, a character if ever there was one and Rincewind himself shows himself to be a true hero, if entirely involuntarily. Some great insights into human behaviour which become the norm in later books. That said, I’m still not entirely sure what the sight spells are supposed to do…..

⭐This was the second book in the series and it’s interesting as his style then was more whimsy than coded commentary on 20th century England. It’s a great read and very original but if you have started with later books when he has hit his stride you may miss the more layered and insightful elements they have.It isn’t a criticism, just my feelings about his development.

⭐I’ve only just found Terry Pratchett. I’m reading him with my children and I won’t lie to admitting that we are all very much enjoying it.The only annoying part is I’ve been told to read them in order, so its annoying to have to wait for the right book to be on sale.Great imagination though and we’ll written.

⭐A direct sequel to ‘The Colour of Magic’, ‘The Light Fantastic’ follows Rincewind, the Discworld’s most inept wizard, and the good-natured tourist Twoflower as they delve into further adventures. This time they find themselves trying to save the Discworld itself, albeit somewhat reluctantly on Rincewand’s part.As with almost all of the Discworld novels, a fantastic read. It’s definitely recommended that you read this, and ‘The Colour of Magic’ first if you’re reading the Discworld novels for the first time. The first two books are actually quite different from ones further down the line, but it’s interesting to see where they started out, and how much they, and the Discoworld itself, evolved over time.

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