Sourcery - Terry Pratchett Reviews

In the Discworld, the eighth son of an eighth son becomes a Wizard. He then goes off into a life of chastity and doing Wizardy things and that is where the story should end.... This however is where this story starts, as the eighth son of an eighth son has eight sons....the eighth of which is a Wizard squared....a ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

The Disworld has a lot of Wizards, some good and some completely incompetent, one of these is Rincewind, a wizard that knows only one spell and will never dare use it and has a hat that says 'wizzzard' in sequins. A wizard is the eighth son of and eighth son, eight is a magic number on the Discworld. Wizards are not meant to have ...  Read the complete review