Hello, welcome to a new page. This page is where im going to write my first experience and thoughts while im reading through The DISCWORLD BOOKS BY TERRY PRATCHETT.

Because this is my first page of the Discworld book review, I’ve put my thoughts on the first three books here before I discuss book four.

Let’s begin,

After reading some heavy, tough books, I grew a bit tired, and I decided to look for something lighter. While searching, I came across Terry Pratchett and the Discworld books. And that sounds like the type of books I was looking for.

SO….

I may have gone a little crazy!

I bought the whole Discworld Collector’s Library – The Complete Collection! and bought the first one on Kindle and started reading.

This was exactly what I was looking for! The main thing I had to get used to is that there are no chapters in these books. At least the first 3 books. It took some time, but I found a way around that.

Here are my first thoughts on the first three books:

Book One:

The first book was a good introduction to this crazy, strange world, and the story was mostly low-stakes. I didn’t expect to read that ‘the turtle with elephants on its back and the world on top of the elephants’ was an actual physical being that the characters could see and touch.  At least the fantasy that I read.  You rarely see and interfere with the ‘god’ of that world.  Often, it is described as background worldbuilding stuff, not a physical being, which was pretty cool. 

You are introduced to the red wizard, Rincewind, I think he failed ‘wizardly school?’ and now wandering by himself with his magical trunk, called the Luggage, which has legs that follow Rincewind everywhere he goes.

What struck me was how funny it was, with good ‘old school’ British humour, which I always enjoy. 

(Also, the character of ‘Death’ is super interesting.)  

Book Two

Book two follows up from book 1.  However, the stakes are  ‘end of the world’ stuff. The secret spell is trapped within Rincewind’s head, and the trying to find a way to save the world.

You even got a ‘chapter’ from the turtle pov at one stage, ‘swimming or ‘flying’ through space. :O. Which one of the main characters lowest himself down from the edge of the world to talk to the turtle.

(future me here editing the blog, I didn’t have much to say on book two, clearly! )

Book Three

Lastly, book 3,  ok, at this stage, I read A LOT of fantasy books in such a short time!  I don’t know if I was getting tired of the retreating troops.  But this book was a bit of a struggle for me to finish. I even had to take a short break, leave it for a week, do something else, and come back all fresh!   

I think my issue was the main character of the story. ‘ESKARINA SMITH’ or ‘ESK’, a young nine-year-old witch ( I think she’s 9, I can’t remember). and doesn’t want to be a witch, so she goes on a journey to become a wizard.

I don’t know why, but because of how she was written and how she acted in the story, it was difficult for me to follow the story properly.  (Or maybe that’s how Terry Pratchett wanted me to feel about ‘Esk’?  If so, well done, she was so ANNOYING!) 

Her mentor, ‘Granny Weatherway’, was by far the best character in that book. The old mentor trooped with funny one-liners. 

Despite my struggles with the book, when I was reading the climax of the third act, my interest and I was fully invested in the big battle at the end. And ESK used such an epic use of magic to save the day!    

The next review is book 4: Mort….