The series can be read chronologically, but the novels are also grouped into sub-series which basically contain the same characters (Death being quite… cool 😅) or themes, with the main character being Rincewind - a wizard with no skill and no real… 'wizardly qualifications'. 🥰
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SOD YOU, THEN, Death said.
-Death from The Colour of Magic
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The Discworld is not a coherent fantasy world. Its geography is fuzzy, its chronology unreliable. A small traveling circle of firelight in a chilly infinity has turned out to be the home of defiant jokes and last chances. There are no maps. You can’t map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.
-from The Colour of Magic
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IN A DISTANT AND SECONDHAND SET OF DIMENSIONS, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part… See… Great A’Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
-from The Colour of Magic
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"Once you're on shore, break that so we can understand each other."
She stared at me.
"It's magic. Once we get off the boat, just break the stick, okay?"
She nodded, and I lead the way down the gangway and onto the dock. She followed, and once we were both ashore I made a get on with it motion. She broke the spellstick and there was a faint octarine shimmer as the spell settled around her.
"Can you understand me?"
"Yes?"
"That should last until this time tomorrow."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ut7fadlujayt2jdrilaumxb/bafkreihzdqb2cnod4qdciwnr5osjp2w6o7xhut2klicnimbywfk7upc5iy)
[a screenshot from a novel composition app] "Once you're on shore, break that so we can understand each other." She stared at me. "It's magic. Once we get off the boat, just break the stick, okay?" She nodded, and I lead the way down the gangway and onto the dock. She followed, and once we were both ashore I made a get on with it motion. She broke the spellstick and there was a faint octarine shimmer as the spell settled around her. "Can you understand me?" "Yes?" "That should last until this time tomorrow."
In homage to Sir Terry, I've made a Decision about magic on the world of Sert.
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Wasn’t for me.
Book 24 of the year done!
IF I HAD A PENNY for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I’d have—hang on a moment—£4.67.
-Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
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On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.
-The Colour of Magic
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IF I HAD A PENNY for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I’d have—hang on a moment—£4.67. Anyway, the answer is that it was lying around and didn’t look as though it belonged to anyone. The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. It’s one of the great ancient myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered together; the four elephants were an Indo-European sophistication. The idea has been lying in the lumber rooms of legend for centuries. All I had to do was grab it and run away before the alarms went off.
-from The Colour of Magic
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The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett -- book review by Morella. www.douxreviews.com/2025/04/the-... #terrypratchett #discworld #TheColourOfMagic
"I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized." "That's just fantasy," said Twoflower. "I know. That's the trouble." Rincewind sighed again. --from The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
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Okay then, Discworld book number three for me to read is Discworld book number one as written. #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheColourofMagic
“Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.”
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A little late with the GNU. I cannot believe it has been 10 years since his passing - gone but never forgotten 💜
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“I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.”
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“Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely.”
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A digital art based on the Discworld novel The Colour of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett featuring an iconograph with the imp visible inside.
📚 The Colour of Magic
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“Falling isn’t so bad, you know. It’s only the landing that hurts.”
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“I'm sure you won't dream of trying to escape from your obligations by fleeing the city...'
'I assure you the thought never even crossed my mind, lord.'
'Indeed? Then if I were you I'd sue my face for slander.”
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My first #Pratchett book, which I read mostly backward because a friend loved the last few pages & wanted me to read them. So I did, & then I wanted to see what set those pages up, then I went back farther to see what set them up, & so on. After that, I read #TheColourofMagic, forward.
“It had to be Death. No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.”
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“The gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”
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“We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'
'Precisely,' said a passing bush.”
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