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The Colour Of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), 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, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...

"One of the best, and one of the funniest English authors alive" Independent

(Extract taken from back cover blurb © Corgi 1985)

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The Colour of Magic was the first in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, an epic work of the imagination consisting (so far) of about forty publications - novels, graphic novels and books for young people. I'm a bit of a Douglas Adams fan when it comes to fantasy with science and a liberal helping of satire and humour, but it's impossible not to enjoy Pratchett's world. 50 million readers can't be wrong?

OK - I can't tell whether I prefer the wizard Rincewind or the obsessively devoted many-l... more

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