Discworld: The Light Fantastic (Paperback)

from mstrust

The second in the Discworld series. Wizard Rincewind is still working as a guide to the wealthy tourist Twoflower and his dangerously loyal Luggage. But groups all over the world are looking for Rincewind because years ago, when he was a young wizard in training, a particularly powerful spell lod...

from JFBallenger

I read this second book of the Discworld series directly after The Color of Magic,, and -- as had been foretold, I found it much tighter and funnier than the first book. Many LT reviewers and most Pratchett enthusiasts suggest that more recent books in the series get much, much better. Based on w...

from stephmo

Picking up, right where The Color of Magic left off, The Light Fantastic seeks to answer most of the unanswered questions of the Octavo, how one gets ahead at the Unseen University, key points in tourism, the role of dentistry in a barbarian's later years, gender politics in the warrior class, th...

from stephmo

Picking up, right where The Color of Magic left off, The Light Fantastic seeks to answer most of the unanswered questions of the Octavo, how one gets ahead at the Unseen University, key points in tourism, the role of dentistry in a barbarian's later years, gender politics in the warrior class, th...

from Turrean

One of Pratchett's earliest Discworld novels. Not his best, but has occasional flashes of brilliance. Fun for rabid fans (like me) to play "spot the link"--catching glimpses of ideas that Pratchett developed more fully in later novels: the castle of teeth (Hogfather); Death and the other Horsemen...