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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
A Whisper in the Dark: Twelve Thrilling Tales by Louisa May Alcott
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Gol ... ... Chocolat
5. Anansi Boys
6. The Time Traveler's Wife
7. The Light Fantastic
8. The Kite Runner
touchstones, why do you not work the first time?
... Or google for Lspace - a fan site with a good reading ordre guide.
Basically the first two - colour of magic and light fantastic aren't as good as the rest. After that there are several different mini themes, following various characters, each of which are best read in order, but each ... The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik
Strip Tease by Carl Hiassen
Trip The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron
My Own Two Feet: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary
... I start on The Host, but it'll be tough! Then I'll likely start the Bartimaeus Trilogy, or The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. At any rate, I'll be reading any two or three of those for the next week or two. ... Boys
Walden
The Great Gatsby
A Raisin in the Sun
Death of a Salesman
The Caine Mutiny
Pagan Christmas
The Light Fantastic
The Zombie Survival Guide
Apocalypse Wow!
Doomsday Prophecies
The Time Traveler's Wife
Slaughterhouse-Five
So...now I'm up to 18...an ... Yes, I always enjoy Pratchett. Having just finished The Light Fantastic I felt quite sorry to be saying goodbye to Twoflower. Always a good sign when you're going to miss a character, isn't it. Finished No. 71
Starting No. 72 Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic
Given that The Colour of Magic ends with a ummm cliff-hanger I thought I'd carry on with the next in the series.
A re-read not taken from the TBR pile. Still 59 The light of the oracle by Victoria Hanley
Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The light-bearer's daughter by O.R. Melling
Pure dead brilliant by Debi Gliori (bit of a cheat I know)
... I may call them part of my 75 for the year.
1. Phedra by Jean Racine
2. House At Riverton by Kate Morton
3. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
4. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
5. UltraPrevention by Mark Hyman & Terry Liponis
6. A Change of Heart by Claire Sylvia
7 ... ... Must Advertise and A Blunt Instrument (Sayers and Heyer respectively). Sorta like comfort food.
I have Pratchett's The Light Fantastic and The Color of Magic - his first two I think - but when I started reading him it was just not the right time.
Which is a deviation on not being ... ... his books that have Rincewind as the main character, those would be the first few books in the series: Colour of Magic, the Light Fantastic, and a few others. Oh, and Reaper Man is my favorite DEATH book. ... and that I gave that away several years later to get someone else started. Consulting my bookshelves I find my copy of the Light Fantastic dates from 1986, so I probably bought both in the mid-80s in the days The Forbidden Planet was a small shop in Denmark Street, London and I suspect I ... ... Simmons book I was checking out. Then it dawned on me it was series. I immediately bought The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and I've been a fan ever since.
There was a rough patch in the fall of '02 when I couldn't get Mort, Sourcery or Eric and had to special ... ... three Terry Pratchett books - The Color of Magic, Guards, Guards, and one of the ones with Death in it (probably The Light Fantastic, but I don't remember.)
I reallly need to get those read. I enjoyed the ones I did, but that was a loooong time ago, and I keep finding such nifty NE ... ... is that everyone's opinion varies.
I'd put the 5 to Buy Last Only For The Sake of Completeness as:
Colour of magic
Light fantastic
Small Gods
Eric
and maybe interesting times
Several of these have appeared on others buy first lists.
Is this your first exposure to ... ... anyway. ;)
The five I've enjoyed most so far:
Guards!, Guards!
Hogfather
Carpe Jugulum
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
That being said, I just haven't read any of the beginning Witches or Death novels. I'm working my way through the Watch first. You wouldn't go wrong, ... discworld by Terry Pratchett - 36 books so far
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Faust Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms ... 8. the Light Fantastic
9. Equal Rites The Colour of Magic was the first Discworld novel I read and it is also the first in the series. The next one is The Light Fantastic which I have on my bookshelf but haven't read yet. Then comes Equal Rites I think. I have read that you don't have to read them in any particular order though. ... is available in both hardback and paperback as of 1 November.
The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett available in hardback from 16 June 2008.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition Calendar 2009 (Calendar) available ... ... after. I have since then bought and read every single Pratchett book available, heh.
I am glad I did not start out with Light Fantastic, it is good but not nearly as funny or gripping as the later books. I might not have stuck with the series if I read it first and that would have been a ... What I'm really narked about is that they seem to be combining elements of The Colour of Magic with The Light Fantastic. Surely there's enough material in each of the Discworld books to warrant doing each of them separately? Neither of the first two books in the series are anywhere near being ... It was Light fantastic - I believe it happened at the time of the reading of The Spell.
In Colour of magic the librarian, if he even features, is human. However I don't expect this will get in the way of the filmakers plot. 9.) The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
10.) Equal Rites (no touchstone?) by Terry Pratchett
Ha! I went on vacation for five days and only finished two books- both of them Discworld series novels. I brought four or five "serious" books, Anthropology journals, lots of novels I ... ... but definately preferable to the alternative.
Edit - a quick trawl through L-SPace and it gets worse. Trymon is from the light fantastic obviously this film is going to be a bit of mishmash of both. Not promising. ... People by Terry Pratchett
18. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Audio)
19. 52 Wanderungen by Franz Hohler
20. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Audio)
21. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
22. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Audio)
23. Science of Discworld by Terry ... the light fantastic by terry pratchett
lord of light by roger zelazny
sea of silver light by tad williams
a flash of lightning in the dark of night by the dalai lama
looking at philosophy: the unbearable heaviness of philosophy made lighter by donald palmer ... here.
I agree with a lot of people that his Rincewind books aren't the best, of which The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic are the first two. They're not bad, but I think the jokes work better if you've already read a few of the other books.
Guards! Guards! is a ... ... etting.
In the first discworld books there is so much by energy in discworld itself that the story was almost irrelevant. The Light Fantastic (the second book and vastly better then COM) is the most extreme example of this.
As the series progresses the structure of the story becomes more ... A colour of magic and the light fantastic are parodies of the fantasy genre of writing, as they are themselves fantasy, they become self parodies, and aren't as funny as they could be. I don't much care for either, or the entire Rincewind 'series'.
From book three Equal Rites: the writing ... I normally suggest Equal Rites: as an entry piont for those who don't like Colour of magic, you probably wouldn't like the light fantastic either.
L-Space - linked off Terry Pratchett 's page has a reading order. ... all of them :-(
Here's another opening line:
"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort"
The Light Fantastic from Terry Pratchett ... lying around, and it feels like it is staring at me accusingly even though it hasn't got any eyes. (sorry been listening to The Light Fantastic and I love the Luggage). ... fave: Eric - it just never did it for me, although I was hard pushed to pick that one over The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, beacuse I really don't rate either of them - in fact, if i'd started at the beginning of the Discworld series, I might never have read the rest of them! fav: Small Gods ...(sorry reading_fox)
least: The Truth
Others favorites include Carpe Jugulum, Thief of Time, The Light Fantastic (partially because of the luggage), and The Fifth Elephant
My lowest rating is three stars, so the least isn't that bad.
PS: Reading_Fox... link ... Good Omens introduced me to Pratchett's wild view of the world. Next was The Color of Magic then The Light Fantastic & I am most definitely hooked. If only I could find them in the Library or in used bookstores I'd be further into the series. Buying every one of them will blow my book ... I'm reading The Light Fantastic & listening to the audio book of The Silmarillion (Read it the old fashioned way the first time). Pratchett is hilarious. Will take time out from Discworld to read Gormenghast which is liable to a long project for me w/the amount of time I'm able to ... ... probably already found is pratchett Just in case you haven't I'd recommend skipping the first couple colour of magic light fantastic unless you're well read in fantasy generally, and start with Equal rites. ... Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
100th - The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (691 owners)
10% (260th) - Light by M. John Harrison (224 owners)
Least Popular - ICFP '06 : proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming although I ... ... with all of his works.
Wintersmith is a good book. I think some of his early Discworld books - The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic for example - have interesting ideas, but are not as well written or as human and touching as some of his more recent work. It's nice to read something ... ... agree on the (early? is circa 20 covers "early", but OK...) Pratchett covers. My then boyfriend, now husband, bought me Light Fantastic when I was sick some ten years ago. He bought it on recommendation from a guy workning at our local SF book store, but I thought the cover art HORRIBLE and ... ... I think - we were staying in self-catering accomodation, and the owner had provided a supply of paperbacks. I picked up The Light fantastic and was hooked !
Having said that, my addiction waned a few years ago, as I felt more recent titles were showing slippage in the quality control ... ... in it but it's still got the typical Pratchett feeling. She's now fighting her way through The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic to get to the good stuff ... ... need to go in order so haven't read anymore. I bought a dozen of his books at a garage sale but they sit unread until I get The Light Fantastic out of the library. The thing that stays with me is the idea of the need for a fence at the edge of the world to keep objects from falling over. Picked up some cheap remainders: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, and A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon. :)
Sigh... why do I keep buying when I have so many still to read? ... these notes to only the books that are specifically about the reoccuring characters.
The Colour of Magic (Rincewind)
The Light Fantastic (Rincewind)
Equal Rites (Lancre Witches (Weatherwax only))
Mort (Death)
Sourcery (Rincewind)
Wyrd Sisters (Lancer Witches)
Pyramids
Guar ... ... inclined, if not so much obsessed.. So I just got three beautiful remainder 2005 trade paperbacks of The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites (for $2.50 each!). I'm about to take the plunge... ... I got out and bought the first two books of the Discworld series. I did start with The colour of magic and went on with The light fantastic, but that's because I'm absolutely chronologically obsessed...
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