Discworldathon 2017 discussion
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February's Readalong Book: Colour of Magic!
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Awesome! I know it isn't as good or polished or as well-loved as many of the later books but I really like this book. Looking forward to it.
Just re-read Colour of Magic last month....loved it! :) Rincewind & Twoflower crack me up. Wish I had his luggage! Would make rushing through an airport so much easier if the suitcase brought itself!
I'll have a post up (and I'll copy here) about this asap when I get home!! Sorry, had some technological disasters to sort the past couple of days!Colour of Magic definitely doesn't have the honed style of the later books but I love it for the nostalgia!!
Fittingly, I am overusing exclamation marks
I plan to read along with Colour of Magic this month, but I'll be a behind in the reading schedule. As I started reading Reaper Man prior to finding this group and would prefer to finish it off first.I did try reading Colour of Magic quite a while ago as my introduction to Discworld but couldn't quite get into it at the time. Instead I ended up switching to Guards! Guards! as my first discworld novel and very much enjoyed it. Having now read a handful of discworld novels (from the watchmen, witches and death sub-series) it sounds like a perfect opportunity to revisit Colour of Magic.
I hadn't reread Colour of Magic for a few years and was pleasantly reminded of just how well written even the early Discworld novels were. The highly crafted polish of the later books is missing, but it still works well and I found it hard to put down, even though I know the story backwards from numerous earlier readings. It's interesting to see the beginnings of the character development that unfolded through the series.
Whizzing through this one! I've finished the first two parts. I must have read it a long time ago because although I do remember The Colour of Magic, I hadn't remembered anything about The Sending of Eight! I think it was clever to use Twoflower as a tourist to introduce us to Discworld in the first book. And to do this from the Ankh-Morpork point of view rather than from Twoflower's perspective meant that the tourist was out of place and needed explaining to the reader rather than Discworld itself.
Now beginning The colour of magic. This will be my 3rd time in reading it and if anything like the other times I will find it just as funny. I will update this once I've finished reading it.
Today 18/02/2017 I finished reading it. Brilliant and funny! To me it seems to end rather strangely and suddenly, Even though it end twice (those that read the book will understand. so i'm now wondering if The Light Fantastic, carries on the journey? I can'r remember off hand, so will have to revisit that book at another time.
Today 18/02/2017 I finished reading it. Brilliant and funny! To me it seems to end rather strangely and suddenly, Even though it end twice (those that read the book will understand. so i'm now wondering if The Light Fantastic, carries on the journey? I can'r remember off hand, so will have to revisit that book at another time.
Finished the Colour of Magic now and I think I enjoyed the 1st and 4th parts better the second time around.Any news on The Last Hero mini-Readalong ? I've got my copy at the ready! Its not one I've read before...
Just remembered this: https://www.lspace.org/about-terry/in...
it was an interview published just after the paperback publication of TCOM in 1985. It provides a couple of insights into what Sir Pterry was trying to achieve with the book and what its influnces are.
The interviewer is a guy called Neil Gaiman and it was the start of a beautiful friendship between the two of them. So if you're having a drink tonight, you might want to charge your glasses to Ms Wendy Graham, the editor of Space Voyager, who sent Mr Gaiman out on assignment and without whom, etc.
Ian
Thanks Ian, that's a great interview. I knew I was missing stuff! I think I need to be much better read so I can pick out the influences.
That's beautiful, thanks Ian for sharing. The Douglas Adams comparisons are interesting, I think Pratchett's style develops after the first books into something quite different, but can totally see it now!
I'll announce more details in the last few days of January, so enjoy this month!