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“The Colour of Magic—the first Discworld book but actually his fourth book—hasn’t aged spectacularly. It’s a novel that needs a certain amount of context to understand the jokes about nerdy 1970s fantasy. But the book still works because the main character, Rincewind, is brilliant and is still a completely relatable character. He’s somebody who is frustrated by the sheer unfairness of the universe, and that’s something I think most people have felt at some time. Every Pratchett book has something like that: something that links it to the human experience…Because Pratchett was so astonishingly prolific (publishing two books a year, for much of his life) he got so much better as time went on. The more you do something, the better you get, right? By the time he wrote Mort in 1987, he was ten times the writer he was when he wrote The Colour of Magic in 1983. So, once you’re a fan, go back and read the first three books later.” Read more...
The Best Terry Pratchett Books
Marc Burrows, Biographer
