Interesting Times

A Novel of Discworld

mass market paperback, 416 pages

Published Jan. 28, 2014 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-227629-2
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OCLC Number:
872625417

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it …

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reviewed Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 17)

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5 stars

Rincewind is living happily on an island, which means something disastrous is about to happen (to him). And indeed, he is sent to a faraway land in need of a "great wizard". In that continent Rincewind meets Cohen the Barbarian and tries to stay away from trouble, but trouble enjoys his company.

Pratchett always knows how to make me live in interesting times through his writing. Another fantastic book, and to think I did not even like Rincewind to start with!...

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