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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0552152269
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corgi Audio; Abridged edition (October 8, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780552152266
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0552152266
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.96 x 0.91 x 5.63 inches

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Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was fifteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987 he turned to writing full time, and has not looked back since. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children. The first of these children's books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). Terry's latest book, Nation, a non-Discworld standalone YA novel was published in October of 2008 and was an instant New York Times and London Times bestseller. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received four honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth, Bath, and Bristol. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 55 million copies (give or take a few million) and have been translated into 36 languages. Terry Pratchett lived in England with his family, and spent too much time at his word processor. Some of Terry's accolades include: The Carnegie Medal, Locus Awards, the Mythopoetic Award, ALA Notable Books for Children, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Book Sense 76 Pick, Prometheus Award and the British Fantasy Award.

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Farce, Heroism, Humor and Apocalypse

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017

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It’s Ankh Morpork again and things are as wretched, dirty, disheveled and motheaten as usual. Suddenly a boy wonder (Coin) arrives at the Unseen University. Coin is the eighth son of an eighth son. His father mostly died when Coin was an infant, but he still would make most parents look good by comparison. It is not long before everything in Ankh Morpork is bright and shiny and that is just the beginning of the disaster. Sourcery is a novel of Discworld. The Discworld novels fall into different categories: Tiffany Aching, Rincewind, the three witches, Sam Vines and the guards, and Death. Each book focuses on one of them, although they cross over and pop up in each others' books all the time. It is best if you start from the beginning of a particular grouping and work your way through, otherwise you'll miss a lot of inside jokes, references, etc. There are charts on the internet that will show you the groupings. You can trust Terry Pratchett to not be too linear and to not be predictable. Sourcery is an early novel of Rincewind. Rincewind is a wizard with little mastery of magic whose feels that his main talent is staying alive in the background of his surroundings. He is also the master of the luggage. He views himself as fearful and not heroic: in other words, the perfect person to save the world. Like all of the Discworld books, the tone is satirical and clever. This book did not make me laugh out loud like Wee Free Men, but it was amusing. Anytime the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up in a Discworld novel, it is seriously humorous. Somehow, Terry Pratchett makes all the nonsense work. If you are someone who cannot smile at puns like “martial lore” or “wizards were wazzards” might not fully appreciate Discworld even though most of the cleverness is more sophisticated. Silly farce is also a major force. These books do not contain any scenes, language, or images that would rate even a PG-13 rating at the movies. If a reader does not have sufficient maturity, much of the book will be wasted, because you won’t get the jokes or understand the satire. I count myself lucky to still have so many novels of Discworld ahead of me. Terry Pratchett was brilliant and the master of a fantasy sub-genre that probably belongs to him alone. The Tiffany Aching books remain my favorites, perhaps because they were my first, but probably because of the wee free men.

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Gotham Hawkeye

A stumble

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2016

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Past the midpoint of my life, I finally started to read the Discworld books. Having loved the first four books, and expecting to like many of the other Discworld novels, I have to say that Discworld book 5 was surprisingly disappointing. It started off rather strong but it certainly ended laboriously. Many of the scenes in this novel drag out as scenes did not drag out in the first books. There are fewer rich, comedic observations. Rincewind is thoroughly tedious in Sourcery. (Spoiler ahead) — The Nordic myth-inspired ending (I don't want to give too many details) as well as those dealing with the Dungeon Dimension were uninteresting and unfunny. I flipped through half-read pages very quickly towards the end in a hurry to finish the story as opposed to reading quickly and thirstily because the story was so good. I found myself basically in a rush to start book 6 on the assumption that it would be better. Please bear in mind that books 1 through five all elicited four or five stars from me. So it's not as if I'm inclined to not like the Discworld novels. Though I won't know if this is the case until I have read more of a the novels, I suspect book 5 was just a bit of a stumble along an entertaining 41-book journey. Sir Terry typically wrote about two books a year. They couldn't all be four- and five-star achievements. I'm well aware that a majority of people who set out to write fantasy of any kind comedic or otherwise never get even close to the enormity of achievement that Pratchett had. Book 5 has its good moments...but too few of them.

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D Johnson

The more I read about Rincewind, the fonder I become

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2020

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Rincewind, the wizard who consistently fails at wizarding magic, is tasked with saving the entirety of his world when an extremely powerful 10 year old sorcerer arrives to claim his throne. Rincewind's plan? Run away! Run away!

What can I say that hasn't been said? Rincewind is the kind of hero who knows he's the wrong man for the job, but somehow fate continues to pick on him. Pratchett has a style that always makes me laugh, and this time, I actually find myself rallying for the poor wizard to overcome his failures. I found this story gave our main character more heart than the ones before it. And the librarian proves to be the story's soul.

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Ksenia Anske

Funniest dialogue EVER

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2013

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What if you were born not a wizard, but a sorcerer, and what if sorcerers were more powerful than wizards, and what if you were ten years old and had a powerful staff and could do awesome things with just like that and had golden glowing eyes and this creepy manner of speaking, wouldn't it be cool? Oh, and what if your name was Coin? Sourcery is the 5th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and I am set out to read all forty (I think there are forty), because I can't have enough. Every single fantasy cliche you can think of has been parodied with such skill, that it left me laughing until I cried, tears streaming down my face and my stomach hurting.

Let's see here, there is the usual Luggage, the one moving on a million legs, and the orangutan the librarian, and a professional thief by the name of Conina who knows some mean tricks, and Nijel "the Destroyer" who is a barbarian hero in training, drunk Gods in a pub, oh, and Death, and the wizard wars, and the Ice Giants, and flying carpets, and... oy, I need to catch my breath. How can you cram so many things into one book? Turns out, you can, and hysterically so, literally, making fun of everything and anything under the sun. The dialogue alone is worthy a golden medal, on which it would've been written, this medal has been awarded to Terry Pratchett for the funniest dialogue ever. I'm not kidding, I'd fashion one, for sure.

I don't know about you, but I'm off to read Wyrd Sisters.

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Just some bloke

Don’t buy the kindle version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2019

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This is a Diskworld novel. If you’ve read any of them, you know what you’re going to get, and if you like the Rincewind ones you’ll probably like this.

BUT, BUY THE BOOK! I bought the kindle version instead and it’s got quite a few typos, which I’ve not experienced at all in the paperbacks. It’s obviously not been properly proofread.

The author’s trademark footnote asides are also almost inaccessible on a kindle paperwhite and the difficulty in reading them (on a separate screen) spoils the timing and the moment.

Kindle is fine for some stuff, but not Pratchett.

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Fantastic as always

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2017

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All this books and stuff, that isn’t what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry.

There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we’d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son… a wizard squared…a source of magic…a Sourcerer.

Unseen University has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which, unfortunately, could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And that the world is going to end, depending on whom you listen to. Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University’s most precious artefact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the disc to safety…

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Before I start this review just let me point out that it’s not a misspelling in the title of this book but merely Terry’s play on words.

This is the fifth book of the discworld series and a Rincewind book, the book takes many sartirical swipes at some of the biggest known fantasy books for example Lord of the Rings, Narnia, The Tempest and many more. Unlike many satires this one also has a fantastic story of its own.

The story starts with a wizard and his son who is an eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son. Coins father cheats death by making himself part of his staff that’s he gave to Coin as an infant. When Coin reaches ten his father uses his wizardry to try and destroy the Unseen University and the world.

However, he didn’t count on Rincewind, his sidekick Luggage, the orangutan librarian, a wizards hat, Corina the daughter of Cohen the barbarian, an adventurer whose learning adventuring from a book and a genie who doesn’t follow the normal genie pattern.

What ensues is a journey to save the Unseen University and maybe the world too.

Pratchetts humour comes through more strongly here and the fifth book of the discworld starts to show some of what was was come in his later books.

The start of the book says ” This book does not contain a map. Please feel free to draw your own”. I couldn’t have found a better quote to describe the discworld series so far. Rules that are established in one book don’t follow through into another. Character traits and appearances change and there isn’t much structure! However I never expected anything else from Terry and this is what makes his books uniquely funny.

Once again I gave 5 stars to this book and swiftly moved onto the next book in the series

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Alan Marron

PRATCHETT WAS THE SOURCERER WHO NEVER NEEDED AN APPRENTICE!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2019

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What can you say about a writer as brilliant as the late Sir Terry Pratchett? In all probability, nothing new. There is absolutely no other writer that can touch him, especially his mind bending DISCWORLD series, and the book that led to it: "Strata". He may have passed away, which saddens his many avid readers, of whom I willingly admit to being one amongst many, but Terry Pratchett will live on through his brilliantly funny writings as long as people read fantasy fiction.

HavantShopper

Great read from cover to cover

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2020

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The one thing more deadly for the discworld than wizards... A source!

Once again another fabulous story from the Discworld, I love them all and am enjoying them enormously.

I have most in paperback but am currently working my way through them all again - kindle version is perfect for a bedtime reader. Happy to buy these books a second time, I'm sure I will read them many more times over the years so a good buy in my mind.

Lesley

I love Terry Pratchett so this is biased!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2019

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Who can fault Terry Pratchett’s Discworld? Well, some can but who cares? He gently and enjoyably takes the mickey from any shibboleth you care to name, reflecting your own habitual views back with blinding clarity.

Or you can just enjoy his sense of the absurd in a very readable, very amusing book with rounded characters (even Death has personality) and a gripping story line.

What’s not to like? Enjoy it.

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