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The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns."
Jan 29, 2013 · A writer who has been compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams, Sir Terry Pratchett has created a complex, yet zany world filled with a host of unforgettable characters who navigate around a profound fantasy universe, complete with its own set of cultures and rules.
- Terry Pratchett
Based on Terry Pratchett's popular Discworld series of fantasy adventure novels. Naïve tourist Twoflower (Sean Astin, "Lord of the Rings") is on holiday in Ankh-Morpork. A fire breaks out, and he flees the city with an incompetent wizard named Rincewind (Sir David Jason, "Hogfather").
Dec 1, 1983 · The Color of Magic tells the story of Rincewind, a cowardly fake wizard who happens to carry the most powerful spell in the Discworld in his mind. Rincewind is tasked with protecting Twoflower, a naive but totally loaded insurance agent out on a tour of the world, who has more luck in one day than anyone should rightfully have their whole lives.
That’s what’s so stupid about the whole magic thing … You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you’re so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can’t remember what happens next.
The Colour of Magic, comic fantasy novel written by English author Terry Pratchett and published in 1983. It was the first of more than 40 volumes in his wildly popular Discworld series of satirical fantasy novels set on a flat planet carried by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series. ‘Pratchett's spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction.'
Dec 26, 2008 · “The Color of Magic” is a hero's journey tale done in comedic fashion. It’s the first book in Prachett’s disc world series. An incompetent wizard, Rincewind, becomes the guide to a goofy but wealthy tourist named Twoflower.
The Colour of Magic. Terry Pratchett. New American Library, 1985 - Fiction - 253 pages. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which...
Dec 26, 2008 · 'It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination . . .' Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld,...
