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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: Some humour. Very little, very subdued
Disadvantages: Terribly written

...fair few Pratchet books in the past all of the discworld series so when I saw this book I thought it should be just as good and bought it straight away. How wrong I was. First of all the plot. The story is about Dom who is the Chairman of the planet Widdershin and heir to a massive fortune. However, according to a concept called probability math than can predict the future the day Dom is to become Chairman he will die. However he does not die and ...
...it just seems stupid) The book is really badly written. It's as if Pratchet came up with the idea for a story and quickly threw it together. He seems to flit between ideas that may work well in his head but unless he describes them properly don't work well on the page. Nothing is described welll, very little is explained. I thought for a while maybe this book is a sequel and we're expected to know what these things are from the previous book but ... 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: 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: Extremely witty, Fast reading and morish.
Disadvantages: you need to have started reading the discworld series to gain insight into the characters

...desk in Hertforshire has given the great Mr. Pratchett all the imagination and twisted ideas that he needs to write a series of books on a flat world supported on the back of four giant elephants which themselves stand on the back of Great a'tuin, the turtle, who swims through the cosmos at his leisure twisting and rolling to avoid all of the other strange worlds which inhabit our massive, ever growing universe. This is the latest installment of ...
...the Ankh Morpork Guards, Commanded by Sir Samuel Vimes. For those of you who have never read a Discworld novel, Ankh Morpork is the most advanced city on the discworld and reminds everyone very much of a popular american city....... but enough of that, Its a place we can all relate to when perusing this wonderful book. The Basic Storyline... Newly appointed Duke of Ankh, Sir Samuel Vimes, Ex Copper/Guardsman with a will of iron and a sly intelligence ... Read review