The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett Reviews

The Colour of Magic - which is really half of a complete story, along with its sequel, The Light Fantastic - is where Discworld, and the real celebrity of Terry Pratchett, all began. He'd written a few books before this, but the Discworld series is the true cause of his enduring fame. Why "Discworld"? Because the stories set on a world ...  Read the complete review

This is the first of the Terry Pratchett Discworld series and is truly a fantastic book. This book (and all the subsequent books in the Discworld series) is a wonderful mix of Fantacy, comedy and down right silliness. Pratchett introduces you to Rincewind a failing / incompetent wizard who is dragged (unwillingly) into adventure. The ...  Read the complete review

The colour of magic is the first Discworld novel released by Terry Pratchett in the popular series. It introduces the magically warped world, which is flat and sits on the back of four huge elephants as it flies through space. Although the story is not as complicated as the later books, it demonstrates Pratchetts wonderful ability to make ...  Read the complete review

"In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling stars 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....(upon his back)... Berelia, ...  Read the complete review

This was the first ever Discworld novel and as such is not as polished as later novels come to be. Here too is little of the parody of our own world that makes this series so successful, nonetheless it is still a good read and well worth picking up as an introduction to Pratchett's imaginary world. For the uniniated, Discworld is a flat ...  Read the complete review

Back in university one of my housemates introduced me to fantasy novels which I had never thought to read. One such author she recommended I read was Terry Pratchett and told me that he was a British author and wrote very funny books about a fictional place called Discworld. She borrowed me the first Discworld novel entitled ‘The Colour of ...  Read the complete review

I’ve been quite the fan of Science Fiction novels ever since I was a young teenager, and one of my favourite series of books is the Discworld novels written by Terry Pratchett. Although I’ve read countless of the books, it came as a bit of a shock to find I hadn’t actually read the very first book in the series, The Colour Of Magic. As soon as I ...  Read the complete review

The world is round. I haven't personally travelled it's circumference or employed any other scientific means to prove it myself, but it seems a reasonable theory and appears to makes sense so I'm quite happy to go along with it until a better one comes along. But there was a time, in a less enlightened age, when the powers that be decided that the ...  Read the complete review

Where can you find the following things – a talking sword, a troll made entirely of water and a walking treasure chest with a nasty bite? Yes, that’s right, in the same place as you will discover how frightening it can be to utter the total of two times four (Shhh!). And what frogs really turn into, when magic spells abound. And a ...  Read the complete review

Having started reading Discworld books further into the series, I was worried that the first two stories would be lacking in quality. I needn't have worried that standards or style would be inferior, in fact the first two books are now my favourite in the series. Pratchett begins his exploration of the Disc with parody of the fantasy ...  Read the complete review

I wouldn't recommend this as the first book to read in the Discworld series because although it is good, Terry Pratchett has written better books than this, but it is interesting to see what the characters began like. The Colour of Magic is not the first Discworld book that I read and so because of that I already had the feel of the ...  Read the complete review

The Color Of Magic is the first in the Discworld series written by Terry Pratchett. For the uninitiated, it introduces the Discworld - a large flat disc set atop four huge elephants, standing on the back of a giant turtle floating through space on a quest to go...who knows where. The world of the disc is one in which fantasy characters like ...  Read the complete review

"The colour of magic" was the first Terry Pratchett novel to be based on the fantasy world he created called 'The discworld'. Unsurprisingly the world is so-called because it is in fact shaped like a disc. What is surprising however is that it is a diac on the back of four elephants (Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and ...  Read the complete review

I probably don't read as much as I ought to. I used to enjoy reading when I was smaller, and my god – I got through some books in my time! It's just I don't seem to have all that much time for reading these days. Maybe I'm writing opinions for Ciao too much, and that's slowing me down! Or maybe I'm just not trying ...  Read the complete review

The fact is, I have had a very ambivalent relationship with Pratchett as a fan over the last decade or so. I know at least one person whom he himself, Pratchett, demands be removed from his presence whenever they come into contact; I have bumped into him myself at conventions, and in person he's a dour, unfriendly sod. Back when I ...  Read the complete review

This was the first Terry Pratchett book I read, and I almost didn’t! My brother used to sit there reading them, occasionally giving out a little chuckle; and seeing as he has all the books, I thought I’d give it a go. I took out the first book, The Colour Of Magic, and read about 3 pages before I put it back. I didn’t ...  Read the complete review

This is the first Discworld book I got and this is the one that got me into reading the Discworld novels. I have found out that many people who read Discworld novels dislike this book due to is being a typical fantasy novel with many strance character names like Lio!rt and Stren Withel. However I found reading about Rincewind and Twoflowers ...  Read the complete review

This is the 1st of the discworld series,and this shows in that the story never seems to gel properly but is more several short stories bolted together but all featuring the same 2 lead charactors. This feels especially true for the final section where several months disappear between chapters - did Terry have other ideas rejected by the publisher ...  Read the complete review

'The Colour of Magic' is the first of the now infamous "Discworld" series. Ten years since originally published, the book is still attracting new readers - me amongst them - who have gone on to purchase each and every one of the series. If you've never read Pratchett before, this is definately a great place to start. ...  Read the complete review

The first discworld novel focusses on the adventures of Unseen university's worse student, Rincewind, who knows precisely one spell! He is forced to accompany oneof Ankh Morpork's first "Tourists" around the city, and to make sure no harm comes to him.. the visitor is called twoflower, and has a magical suitcase, that follows him ...  Read the complete review