Sourcery - Terry Pratchett

A giant turtle is slowly makes it's way across the expanse of space, and on his (or her) meteor pocked shell stand four rather large elephants, who in turn carry the flat, circular, and highly magical Discworld. Discworld is world of heroes, heroines, witches and wizards, where magic is a very real part of life and DEATH may just come to collect your soul in person (well in bones anyway). There's a very good reason why the wizards of Discworld are celibate, and in this book, Sourcery, we are about to discover just what that reason is….. As the eighth son, of an eighth son, Ipslore the Red was, of course, destined to become a powerful, if not ...  Read the complete review

Sourcery is the fifth book in Terry Pratchetts often bizarre but always amusing Discworld series which currently weighs in at around thirty titles. A little while ago I was foolish enough to set myself the challenge of reading and reviewing them all and here we are, only four months later, and already I'm on book five. This could take a while ... There is every chance that you'll find that the Discworld is a bit of an odd place. That's easy to say about a flat disc shaped world that travels through space on the back of four giant elephants who are themselves stood on the back of an even larger space turtle. But what might not be such a strange ...  Read the complete review

Discworld for Beginners… Discworld is a place of magic, mystery, madness, and occasionally murder. This manages to incorporate all of these elements into the story, more or less in the above order. It’s a place where mythical creatures such as unicorns really exist, Trolls are members of the City Watch, Zombies can earn a living, and luggage made of magical wood (sapient pearwood) have legs and a personality of their own. Discworld has become just as detailed and complex in its own way as Tolkein’s Middle Earth, Feist’s Riftworld, or anything else Fantasy writers have even produced. And it’s as funny as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy or Red Dwarf – you ...  Read the complete review

Well the race is on. I'm in the middle of my annual re-reading of the Pratchett books - this year thrown out slightly by the surprise mid-year release of Thief of Time. I'm only up to Sourcery, and I've just discovered that there are two books due out in November. This could seriously put my schedule out of joint. Sourcery is not one of the best Discworld novels, it must be said; which is a shame, since it follows Mort, my all-time favourite. I must make clear that I am not saying it's a bad book. Far from it. It's still infinitely better than anyone else. Tom Holt, Andrew Harman, Robert Rankin - Pratchett could make his weekly shopping list ...  Read the complete review

Book 5 Sorcery is part of a series of 36 books written by author Terry Pratchett. It each book is different but they all take place on a disk world which is carried on top of a giant tortoise named great A Tuin. On top of him stands to giant elephants who hold up the disk world. Rincewind who is one of the characters in the book is also is in book 2 along with death aka grim reaper and the infamous luggage. Luggage was a character developed by terry after he had seen a woman taking her luggage from the airport and it seemed almost lifelike to him an so in this story he has got legs and it can give expressions.It always follows its master which happens to be ...  Read the complete review