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Advantages: Will make you want to read Pratchett over and over
Disadvantages: None

The Colour of Magic was the first Terry Pratchett book I ever read as I was introduced to Pratchetts books by a work colleague and that was about 12 years ago and I've never looked back since, having read everything in the Discworld series since. Pratchett uses a mixture of cliff hanger endings to each chapter, that prevents you from putting the book down, almost as if that if you do you'll miss something. He cleverly inserts jokes and puns that ... Read review

Advantages: OK as a singular stand alone story
Disadvantages: Not enough involvement of my favourite character, Death

...ex-work mate who lent me The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites and I read the whole three in about one week flat. The Light Fantastic itself didnt, for me anyway, and still doesnt, stand out as one of the best in the Discworld series but then perhaps as I've read all the books as the Discworld itself evolved in time the author gets better at writing this parallel universe and that in itself can make the earlier books not look so ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious, unputdownable, total escapism
Disadvantages: there never ever could be any

**About the Author** Terry Pratchett was born in the Chiltern Hills and now lives with his family not far from Stonehenge. He sold his first story when he was 13 and used the money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, The Carpet People was published in 1971. He worked for a number of years as a press officer and journalist and published his first Discworld novel in 1983. In 1987 he started writing full time and to date has published ...
...received 4 honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Warwick, Portsmouth and Bristol. **Why I chose this book** To be honest, I didn’t choose the book but it was rather chosen for me by one of my lovely sons who bought it as a ‘just because’ gift for me. He knew that Terry Pratchett was just about my favourite author of all time and chose this book because of that, however didn’t look closely at it before purchasing and didn’t notice that ... Read review

Advantages: A great adaptation of a great book
Disadvantages: If you're not into Pratchett, it might not mean that much to you!

I love Terry Pratchett, and Hogfather is one of my favourite of his books. So I was a little nervous before looking at this illustrated screen play (which I did before watching the film!), but there was no need. It portrayed the book brilliantly, just as I would have imagined many of the characters and scenes. Many of the characters were very much as I would have imagined them. If you don't know the story, one year at the winter festival of Hogswatch, ...
...What makes this even more genuine is that it has been "mucked about with" by Terry Pratchett, and he fully endorses the screenplay, and plays a role in it. A great book that can be enjoyed by young and old alike, and really brings alive the book. ... Read review

Advantages: Entertainment for students and populous alike
Disadvantages: May not be for everybody, but it should be.

...is based on some of the fantasy works of Mr T Pratchett. As that great and distinguished scribe and scholar Mr T. Pratchett has told us "Wisdom always seems wiser when it comes from far away." Well this must be very wise as it comes to us all the way from The Discworld itself. This is a compilation of many humorous sayings and quotations from the many books that have introduced us to the myriad delights of The Discworld. The Discworld, as I am ...
...disc shaped world carried on the backs of four large elephants that in turn are carried on the back of a gigantic space going turtle. This world has its own seasons and population who resemble the population of our roundworld in many surprising ways. Here you can meet Heroes and Villains, Wizards and Witches, Gods and Daemons, and a rather large variety of quite ordinary seeming peoples. Here is a world that is both strange and familiar at the same ... Read review