I’m going to give in to it, because those quotes are so much fun: The temptation, as always with Pratchett, is to start quoting at length. The book contains, as the author himself once put it, some “ boffo laughs”. It’s still more than worth reading in and of itself. And partly, because this book is still good.

Partly, because it’s already so fascinating to see the origins of the Discworld and the source of so many other stories. I say yes partly because it’s going to be so interesting to compare this book to one of his later masterpieces and to see how Pratchett developed his writing as the years went on. Even more so now that I’ve re-read The Colour of Magic, almost 30 years after it first introduced me to the delights of the Discworld. But I’d still answer yes to both those questions. I wouldn’t introduce someone to the Beatles with Please Please Me, I’d go straight for Revolver. 'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own' The Times The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.I can see the point. And the whole thing's just a game of the gods that might send them over the edge.

Unfortunately, their journey across the Disc includes facing robbers, monsters, mercenaries, and Death himself. Rincewind is the world's worst wizard who has just been handed a very important job: to look after the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Except for the fact that it travels through space on the shoulders of four giant elephants who in turn stand on the shell of an astronomically huge star turtle, of course. ' Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a magical world not totally unlike our own. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination. NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS 'It was octarine, the colour of magic. Download The Colour Of Magic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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