Pocketbok, 256 sidor
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Publicerades 21 november 2014 av ATALANTE.
The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns."
The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns."
On re-read I was very disappointed. It focuses too much on the comedy and forgets to tell a story.
Full review here.
When I rewatched the 2000 Dungeons&Dragons movie I thought it could have been improved by adding a scene where we see some bored 12-year-olds actually playing the campaign. I'd forgotten that that's pretty much what PTerry does here, and it doesn't really help.
There are glimmers of what's to come, and if I hadn't known that he can do much better I would probably have liked this better. But CoM is a mess; no plot beyond "Stuff happens!", some characters he'd wisely revise from scratch, more focus on the cosmology than society... It's Discworld, but not as we know it.
When I rewatched the 2000 Dungeons&Dragons movie I thought it could have been improved by adding a scene where we see some bored 12-year-olds actually playing the campaign. I'd forgotten that that's pretty much what PTerry does here, and it doesn't really help.
There are glimmers of what's to come, and if I hadn't known that he can do much better I would probably have liked this better. But CoM is a mess; no plot beyond "Stuff happens!", some characters he'd wisely revise from scratch, more focus on the cosmology than society... It's Discworld, but not as we know it.
