Paperback, 155 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2000 by Gollancz.
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he'd never been born!
Well done, couldn't stand much of it for some reason. Definitely see why people like it though.
Rincewind and the luggage are my two favourite characters, the last book of Terry's I read was Pyramids and I gotta admit it is great to get back on track with these wonderful books.
Some brilliant comedy from Terry here and a nice collection of characters. The demons had me laughing, all their bureaucracy and rubber plants had me laughing. Rincewind also got to travel around in time witnessing some historic moments a siege of a famous city featuring a wooden horse, the creator eating his lunch just before the creation of the disk.
One issue I had which stopped it getting 5 stars was the ending, I felt there could be more with Eric and Rincewind. Things just sort of suddenly ended.
Still, that is book 9 ticked off the list....next!
