The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards. Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of. Please note: This is a vintage recording. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series. Unfortunately, the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard. The Disc's very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. It plays by different rules.īut then, some things are the same everywhere. Particularly as it's carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. ![]() NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS
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