|
The Light Fantastic (Discworld Novel) | 
 enlarge | Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Corgi Books
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
Buy Used: £0.01
You Save: £7.98 (100%)
New (38) Used (37) Collectible (1) from £0.01
Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1809
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0552128481
EAN: 9780552128483
ASIN: 0552128481
Publication Date: September 5, 1986
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: **UK SHIPPED**SWIFT RELIABLE SERVICE** With friendly customer care! "Buy with confidence, Buy Book EcoLOGICal" Cover has crease on corner.
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 My review May 13, 2008
discmythnut (A state of mind)
being a Discworld fan, my phoenomena started here.
Rincewind, ever since this book, has beguiled me in certain ways. His sarcasm, his dry sense of humour, his psychological depression, and, as I later realized, his innocence and good nature, beneath that crusty exterior. In Sourcery, he actually saves the world with a half brick in a sock and I thought that was the bravest thing he has ever done, since, despite his reluctance.
In this book, he looks a bit like Wee Willie Winkie 20 years later, I reflected. But his character hadn't changed.
One problem with this book is that they took out one major character- Trymon. Trymon is a great adversary and he's so ambitious and high achieving, which led to his downfall.
All in all, a good book if you haven't read the series.
Has to Be the Best Fantasy Series of Books Ever April 15, 2008
J. Chippindale (England)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today and his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book first published in 1986 is the second of the Discworld novels and to a degree it is amazing that these books have achieved such popularity.
First published twenty one years ago The Light Fantastic is the second book in Terry Pratchett's wonderful Discworld series and once again features the incorrigible and cowardly wizard Rincewind a graduate of the Unseen University of wizards in Ankh-Morpork. Rincewind has the unfortunate knack of getting most of his spells wrong and this tends to put him in ever deeper trouble than he was to start with.
Twoflower is the Discworld's `first tourist' along with his remarkable luggage, oh for such a piece of luggage in today's modern airports. A piece of luggage that can never get lost. Equipped with a number of legs and the homing instinct of a carrier pigeon, it will always find its owner, even when he owner doesn't want to be found.
In this sequel, the Discworld is rapidly moving towards what seems an inevitable collision with a strange red star, and there is only one person who can avert a major disaster. Unfortunately that person happens to be our ham-fisted university graduate, Rincewind the wizard
Great December 15, 2007
H. Kennedy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thankfully for him I love it! (Not all of it!) Rincewind the unsuccessful wizard, is one of the most powerful chararters you would come across in your adventures in the DiscWorld. Sadly I don't like other charators, but the sarcastic impression in which Rincewind is, it comes across very well in the atmosphere. Espeically when the whole of the Disc (or pizza many people are saying!) is riding on the back of a turtle, in which four elephants are carrying the world is heading for a big, red star in which would bring to an end of the whole of the Disc. Don't get upst about the way in which the few pages are written. If you carry on, and head towards the further pages, you'll get into it. Note of Warning: There aren't any chapters. Enjoy the book I did! So have many others! and if you missed Tino Georgiou's--The Fates--I strongly recommend reading it.
Got to Be the Best Fantasy Series Ever December 12, 2007
J. Chippindale (England)
Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today and his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book first published in 1986 is the second of the Discworld novels and to a degree it is amazing that these books have achieved such popularity.
First published twenty one years ago The Light Fantastic is the second book in Terry Pratchett's wonderful Discworld series and once again features the incorrigible and cowardly wizard Rincewind a graduate of the Unseen University of wizards in Ankh-Morpork. Rincewind has the unfortunate knack of getting most of his spells wrong and this tends to put him in ever deeper trouble than he was to start with.
Twoflower is the Discworld's `first tourist' along with his remarkable luggage, oh for such a piece of luggage in today's modern airports. A piece of luggage that can never get lost. Equipped with a number of legs and the homing instinct of a carrier pigeon, it will always find its owner, even when he owner doesn't want to be found.
In this sequel, the Discworld is rapidly moving towards what seems an inevitable collision with a strange red star, and there is only one person who can avert a major disaster. Unfortunately that person happens to be our ham-fisted university graduate, Rincewind the wizard
 Don't offend any Druids October 22, 2007
Mr. M. J. Archer (South Shields, UK)
This is the second Discworld novel, following the story of Rincewind the inept "Wizzard" and Twoflower, the Disc's first (and last) tourist. All of the previous characters return in what is a genuinely funny sequel.
I do not read these books in order, I admit that, and the style of writing has changed somewhat with the newer books like "Going Postal" and "Thud!" but the earlier books are without doubt, extremely funny.
I won't ruin it for you but basically, Great A'Tuin is flying towards a very large red star, which, it is generally considered, "is not a good thing". Rincewind is being constantly saved from dying by the octavo spell which is lodged on the inside of his skull. All octavo spells need to be said at the same time, so they adopt a life of their own to keep him alive and reunite themselves. And save the world.
On his travels to... where ever it is he was headed, he hooks up with an "eighty-sheven" year old barbarian called Cohen (play-on of Conan), end up in a party of trolls, and then a strange cult tries to take over the disc. It sounds fairly chaotic, and it is. It's a great book. I love Terry Pratchett.
P.S. we really mean it about the Druids.
|
|
|
www.pcprotech.co.uk | |
