I’m not sure how many times Terry Pratchett’s name has been used in the same sentence as the name of another British writer, William Shakespeare - but here’s one. “There were a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?”
“All the shops have been smashed open,” one says upon returning. But, to gain entry, Rincewind needs a knife to pry away some stones so he sends his friends to get one. “There were one or two freelance rioters here, mostly engaged in wrecking shops.”Īlso in the alley are Rincewind, a failed wizards, and two friends, planning to sneak onto the University grounds a back way.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Light Fantastic is the second book in the Wizards series.In Terry Pratchett’s second Discworld novel The Light Fantastic, a mob of Ankh-Morpork citizens has marched through the streets to the gates of the Unseen University to demand that the wizards there save their flat, round world. Sharp, sardonic, and brilliantly funny, Pratchett once again earns his master satirist reputation, with witty wordplay and irreverent storytelling that fans are sure to love. Unfortunately, that hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind. Fortunately, there is one individual who can save Discworld from total destruction. (Not that he currently has much choice in the matter.) But with a monstrous red star on a direct collision course, the future for the residents of this flat planet carried by four elephants riding on the shell of a giant turtle swimming through space appears uncertain at best. It's just one of those days when nothing seems to go right-a most inopportune time for the first tourist ever to set foot (and carnivorous Luggage) on the Discworld to be extending his already eventful vacation. The side-splitting sequel to The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic by New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett takes readers on an offbeat journey with bumbling wizard Rincewind-last seen falling off the edge of Discworld-and hapless tourist Twoflower. Pratchett's Discworld books are filled with humor and with magic, but they're rooted in-of all things-real life and cold, hard reason." -Chicago Tribune
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