The Color of Magic

Colour of Magic is a comedic novel by Terry Pratchett and the first book in the Discworld series.

Review

Good

• Overall, the book is really funny. There are a lot of small jokes, ironic jokes, plays on tropes, etc.
• Basing the world on real-life myths is a staple of fiction, but using the most ridiculous myths, like that the earth is supported by four giant elephants riding a huge turtle, is hilarious!
• The way Pratchett bases magic on scientific principles is pretty cool.
• The description of the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth, talking about all objects based around nine minus one and the square root of 64 was funny.
• Death is a hilarious character.

Bad

• The book becomes rather hard to follow in the later portion when the characters are jumping between dimensions and the time line gets jumbled up.

Ugly

• Nothing

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_of_Magic - Wikipedia.