The Light Fantastic * Terry Pratchett

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.
'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or a well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own. Which is a shame because that's all there is...

Rincewind never seems to be able to get it right, no matter what he says or does in life. 

Last time we saw him, he has just fallen off the face of the Dicworld with his unassigned, utterly useless sidekick - Twoflower. 

Fortunately for them, they landed in a good place albeit in a different continent, away from home and in the company of Bethan, Cohen the barbarian and a bunch of talking boulders. The good bit being that they didn't die on impact. 

Though as always, trouble seems to follow Rincewind and with a rather large bounty on his head for the spell that got lodged in there in the first place (even though he doesn't know how to cast it) he starts to ask his usual question to no one in particular...'why me?'

Some, bloody Wizard alright!

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett, is the second novel in the Discworld series and I can finally say that I got round to reading it, even though it only took another five years since reading the first novel. 

The story follows on from where it left off in The Colour of Magic , you get to see more of Rincewind and Towflower's friendship which I shall always treasure as its a loving relationship, the kind you get when someone is highly annoyed by them but they still care deeply for them.  

I must say, it did take me a while to read this one, as did when I was reading TCOM. In some ways the book is a little like the first where it quickens up in places then slows right down, there was quite a few things that I was getting a bit confused with, a bit like sensory overload (Though I suppose with a five year gap you would do!)

Never the less, I enjoyed it and the ending was great, I am sad to find out that the next book in the series, doesn't contain both the wizard and tourist but there are more books further down the series where they make a return appearance. I will continue to read the whole series as it is still very enjoyable with some highly hilarious moments in it.  

I will be giving this books 7 out of 10

The Colour Of Magic * Terry Pratchett

The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett

On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious buy inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...

In the far away galaxy, between thought and reality there is another world. Not just any old world, it's known as the Discworld. Different from our own round sphere. No, this is a flat disc, that sits upon four large elephants, where they stand upon the large turtle A'Turin, who glides through space. 

Rincewind is a wizard, he has the cloak, the hat and the beard. Though he doesn't know any of the spells and he got kicked out of the Unseen University for Wizards. So life isn't pretty great for the worlds worst wizard, although he does know one of the most powerful spells in history, he just has trouble remembering it. 

But when sat in the doom and gloom in a pub in Ankh Morpork, things slowly start to pick themselves up, piece by piece. 

Twoflower is the first tourist to ever walk the land in Ankh Morpork and the civilians can't quite believe there eyes on what there seeing. Not just that the first tourist is currently stood on there land, but that fact that his luggage, which is a big wooden chest, is walking around on millions of tiny little feet with a mind of it's own. That, and it's carrying the weight of the world in gold inside the thing. With Rincewinds life in tatters and not much going for him, Twoflower makes him an offer he can't refuse. 

With the pair teamed up together and making a mess of things, including Ankh Morpork. The pair set off on there own memorable adventure, creating havoc and mischief along to way. With riding dragons, ending up in the devils cave, befriending a barbarian and being captured by a princess. Things couldn't get much worse, not to mention trying to escape death himself and trying to find the edge of the disc. 

Though all this starts to become a bit too much for Rincewind as the journey unfolds, he is passed from pillar to post in a series of unfortunate mishaps and "What's the worse that could happen?" moments. Join Rincewind and Twoflower as they start the adventure of a life time.

The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett is the first book in the well known novel series Discworld and is by far one of the most imaginative and in-depth book I have ever read...so far. I've been wanting to read the Discworld series for a while now and after seeing some of the TV and film adaptations I really wanted to read the books. To say that I watch The Hogfather every year. 

Though the book was a bit strange in the reading department for me. It started out really enjoyable and entertaining on how it starts in the middle of a disaster and how it goes back to the beginning to show you how it got to that moment and then carries on from there. I did like the imagination throughout the book and how it was just created, like the actual discworld itself and the life of Rincewind. 

I really did like both characters of Rincewind and Twoflower. I loved how Rincewind was portrayed to find Twoflower annoying, but as the story went on he realised that he did need him and he kept him sane a little even when things got a bit too stressful. Twoflower is the most calmest character I have ever read and it made me want to be him as I'm never that calm!  To me, they became a good team and a great friendship blossomed between them even though they didn't get on at first. They decided to help each other out when needed and always came back for each other. Plus I loved the negativity from Rincewind and then the Positiveness from Twoflower. 

Either way, I enjoyed this book and the Characters, though in some places I found the book repeating itself quite a bit and you could start to tell what was going to happen next within the book. Apart from that it was good, it's not stopped me from wanting to read more of his book of the series. It was highly funny in places also. 

I will give this book 5 out of 10 stars.