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#5 Platform - The Last Continent
Apr. 10th, 2007 12:53 amHopefully, I'll change back from "no worries" to "no problems" soon.
Book #16: The Last Continent
Author: Terry Pratchett
Provenance: Received from Bookmooch
This book marks the last of the main line Discworld books for me; this doesn't count the Tiffany Aching books, or Last Hero, of which I've only read the Wee Free Men. This one ended up being the last holdout because, really, I don't like the Rincewind books. Of the major characters in the series, he's the one that I like the least. He's really very one-note, and the hero that just runs and runs as a character really ran out of steam for me around the first Rincewind book I read.
Still, the rest of the Faculty can be fun, and this one wasn't really all that different in that regard, although I think they've had better runs in other books. The main thread they're on is that they want to find Rincewind so they can heal the Librarian, who has a cold that causes him to turn into a wide variety of items. Not really epic, but the characters are still fairly cute.
The plot, though... this one is a parody of Australia, and I haven't been there, and I don't really find the idea all that amusing. There were parts that were good, such as the jail sequence and the god of evolution sequence, but there weren't that many. Pratchett's style is on, but it's turned to not particularly amusing ends here; I didn't laugh once. It's in the top end of the Rincewind books, but that's because the competition is very weak. This one's really just for completists, to my mind.
Next up: The Uses of Enchantment. I'm actually 100 pages in already, and this one is better.
Book #16: The Last Continent
Author: Terry Pratchett
Provenance: Received from Bookmooch
This book marks the last of the main line Discworld books for me; this doesn't count the Tiffany Aching books, or Last Hero, of which I've only read the Wee Free Men. This one ended up being the last holdout because, really, I don't like the Rincewind books. Of the major characters in the series, he's the one that I like the least. He's really very one-note, and the hero that just runs and runs as a character really ran out of steam for me around the first Rincewind book I read.
Still, the rest of the Faculty can be fun, and this one wasn't really all that different in that regard, although I think they've had better runs in other books. The main thread they're on is that they want to find Rincewind so they can heal the Librarian, who has a cold that causes him to turn into a wide variety of items. Not really epic, but the characters are still fairly cute.
The plot, though... this one is a parody of Australia, and I haven't been there, and I don't really find the idea all that amusing. There were parts that were good, such as the jail sequence and the god of evolution sequence, but there weren't that many. Pratchett's style is on, but it's turned to not particularly amusing ends here; I didn't laugh once. It's in the top end of the Rincewind books, but that's because the competition is very weak. This one's really just for completists, to my mind.
Next up: The Uses of Enchantment. I'm actually 100 pages in already, and this one is better.
