228 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2005 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-085592-5
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The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns."

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I get it, but should have listened to people who said....

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Content warning Spoilers about the nature of the ending, no details

Rar og spanande

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Content warning Lite røpevarsel for Terry Pratchett sin "The Colour of Magic"

reviewed Barva kouzel by Terry Pratchett

Pomalu, polehoučku ...

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Dalo by se říci, že je to takový roadtrip. Cesta bez cíle, každý taoista by měl radost. Dva hlavní hrdinové putují napříč Zeměplochou. Jeden, protože chce a ten druhý, protože musí. První díl Zeměplochy mi spíš připadá jako umě spojená sbírka povídek. Ačkoliv se to čte velice dobře a na konci chcete číst dál, neumím se ubránit pocitu, že je to zatím jen takový nedopilovaný úvod. Něco z čeho se v dalších knihách teprve zhmotní ten kult, který kolem Zeměplochy dnes je.

Review of 'The Color of Magic' on 'Goodreads'

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People who know how much I love Douglas Adams have asked if I’ve tried Pratchett, and I’m so glad I finally did. Each is his own singular genius, but there are bits of what I love about Adams and in this, and also Borges, plus plenty of Sir Terry’s own delightfully lunatic perspective.

Review of 'The color of magic' on 'Goodreads'

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The color of magic is the first installment of Pratchett's disc world series. It follows Rincewind, a wizard who only knows one spell, and Twoflower, a dangerously curious tourist from the other side of the disc.

I think Pratchett's way of telling the story isn't my style. Too much detail, too much unnecessary information, which would've been suitable for some sort of sequel, but not for the first book of a 40+ book series.

Nonetheless, I did enjoy this book. I think this fantasy series has a lot of potential, and Pratchett's creativity and fantasy is astoundingly surprising, which constantly makes me wonder how in the world he came up with this novel.

His creativity is very entertaining yo read, Nx I thoroughly enjoyed it.

4/5

Review of 'The Colour of Magic' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

This was just okay. The early parts dragged, in the end it was pretty good but not fantastic. A lot of language was quippy but it just felt off. It was smarmy, showing off how clever it is, but it didn’t have a ton to say beyond its own cleverness. It spent entirely too long hinting at a word or phrase that people weren’t quite understanding, and by the time the word was said in a way that made it discernible, I had spent long enough being annoyed at the running gag that I didn’t care that I got the answer. It’s the very first book published in the series, and it’s probably skippable. It does conclusively establish the pretty cool shape of the world that was explained at the very beginning, and is reiterated throughout the series, so there’s that at least. I like the dragon bits, but also …

Review of 'The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novels)' on 'Goodreads'

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Ok look, this wasn't a bad book. But it wasn't a good book. It was a chore to read and I'm not entirely sure if I truly liked it. However, I definitely liked the characters and it made me more curious about the whole of Disc World as a setting. I'm as excited to read more as I am to be done with this one.

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