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"Consistently, inventively mad...wild and wonderful!" -- -- Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
"If I were making my list of Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Terry Pratchett's would be ost of them" -- -- Elizabeth Peters
"Superb popular entertainment" -- -- Washingtom Post Book World
"Unadulterated fun... witty, frequently hilarious.... Pratchett parodies everything in sight." -- San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
"If I were making my list of Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Terry Pratchett's would be ost of them" -- -- Elizabeth Peters
"Superb popular entertainment" -- -- Washingtom Post Book World
"Unadulterated fun... witty, frequently hilarious.... Pratchett parodies everything in sight." -- San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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On the Discworld’s last continent, it’s hot. It’s dry. . . very dry. There was this thing once called the Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that’s not poisonous is venomous. But it’s the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it’ll die in a few days, except. . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker. A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard. He’s the only hero left. Still . . . no worries, eh?
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Good for Australians only.,
By Garius Lupus (London, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Last Continent (Paperback)
I just finished reading all of the Rinsewind novels and this was the only one that I didn't like. It was full of obscure Australian jokes that only an Australian would understand. The plot was often warped in order to make one of these jokes, so if you don't "get" the joke, all you have is a warped plot. I found an "annotation" file on the internet that explained these jokes, but jokes are much less funny if you have to have them explained (the annotation file is on the l-space web - do a search on "l-space web").This book can be safely skipped, without missing any of the bigger picture that carries across novels. I've rated this 2 stars, rather than 1, since it IS a Terry Pratchett novel after all, and even poor Terry Pratchett novels are better than the average.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rincewind in trouble once again,
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This review is from: The Last Continent (Mass Market Paperback)
Although lost in a foreign and different country, Rincewind still manages to get into the most trouble possible. The other wizards of the unseen university also get a lot more character development in this book, which is nice because so often in Terry Pratchett's books, they are mentionned and do quirky things, but the quirks are not explained. Rincewind again ends up being the unwitting hero of this book, with the help of others, and there is some funny parallelism between this new land and the usual discworld scenery.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beer soup,
By Marilyn A Bevan (Bluffdale, utah United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Last Continent (Mass Market Paperback)
The last continent was one of the best books I have ever seen. Rincewinds charicter has never been so fun as when he dug waterholes for the sheep of the last continant, or when he made soup out of beer, or talked to a local brewery mascot. I laughed till the amazing end.
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