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reviewed The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #1)

Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic (Hardcover, 1989, Colin Smythe) 4 stars

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have …

A Solid, Satirical Fantasy Romp

3 stars

As others have no doubt long since covered, this isn't the best introduction to the Discworld - but at the same time, I think it's solid, and does some things well.

The book is reliant on satirising a type of fantasy novel which has become less popular in the decades since. Without that context and indeed even understanding it but looking back all these years later, I think it's solidly "OK", with a few germs of ideas that will become something stronger later but not itself really hitting the heights.