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In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...  | |
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Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".  Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.  Rincewind sighed again. It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going around to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.  | |
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▾Book descriptions On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle, a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, and of course 'the edge' of the planet. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time.
Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof.  | |
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Escaso desarrollo de personajes y situaciones cercanas a escenas autoconclusivas de los Monty Python hacen que, contra el criterio de muchas personas que me rodean, opine que es comida rápida. Esto no lo hace bueno o malo, pero si no fuera por su posición como referencia cultural, sí lo harían fácilmente olvidadizo.
Ha sido mi segundo libro de Mundodisco y sé que no va a ser el último (porque tengo otros dos), pero temo que voy predispuesto a que me satisfagan poco salvo que demuestren un humor más ácido y oscuro. A mí es que me gusta el dolor. (