Book 60: "The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett
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kittiwake'I mean - you know the Horse people's yurt, where we were last night?'
'Yesh.'
'Would you say it was a bit dark and greasy and smelt like a very ill horse?'
'Very accurate description, I'd shay.'
'He wouldn't agree. He'd say it was a magnificent barbarian tent, hung with the pelts of the great beasts hunted by the lean-eyed warriors from the edge of civilisation, and smelt of the rare and curious resins plundered from the caravans as they crossed the trackless - well, and so on. I mean it,' he added.
'He'sh mad?'
'Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.'
'Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.'
"The Light Fantastic" continues the story of Rincewind the failed wizard, who is working as a tour guide for Twoflower (the Disc World's first tourist) and his magical Luggage, started in "The Colour of Magic".
As Rincewind struggles to keep himself and Twoflower alive, and cope with the great spell that is hiding in his mind, the Great A'Tuin is carrying the Disc World directly towards an ominous-looking red star, and the people are beginning to panic.
Not as good as later Disc World novels, but still very funny and worth reading.
'Yesh.'
'Would you say it was a bit dark and greasy and smelt like a very ill horse?'
'Very accurate description, I'd shay.'
'He wouldn't agree. He'd say it was a magnificent barbarian tent, hung with the pelts of the great beasts hunted by the lean-eyed warriors from the edge of civilisation, and smelt of the rare and curious resins plundered from the caravans as they crossed the trackless - well, and so on. I mean it,' he added.
'He'sh mad?'
'Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.'
'Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.'
"The Light Fantastic" continues the story of Rincewind the failed wizard, who is working as a tour guide for Twoflower (the Disc World's first tourist) and his magical Luggage, started in "The Colour of Magic".
As Rincewind struggles to keep himself and Twoflower alive, and cope with the great spell that is hiding in his mind, the Great A'Tuin is carrying the Disc World directly towards an ominous-looking red star, and the people are beginning to panic.
Not as good as later Disc World novels, but still very funny and worth reading.
