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Book 67: "The Last Continent" by Terry Pratchett
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 18:08'Well, she knew the risks when she got the job,' said the Dean.
'What?' said the Senior Wrangler. 'Are you saying that before you apply for the job of housekeeper of a university you should seriously consider being eaten by sharks on the shores of some mysterious continent thousands of years before you are born?'
'She didn't ask many questions at the interview, I know that.'
Another book featuring Rincewind and the senior faculty members of the Unseen University, and set in EcksEcksEcksEcks (the Disc World equivalent of Australia). Rincewind meets a Trickster kangaroo who sends him on a quest, invents brown sticky stuff to spread on bread while trying to make beer and vegetable soup, and finds that the useful Ecksian phrase "No Worries" will see him through in almost any circumstance. Meanwhile, the wizards find themselves trapped after climbing through a portal in a bathroom, meet a god with rather strange ideas about creation, and see a new side to the university's formidable housekeeper, Mrs Whitlow.
As usual there were a lot of funny moments and silly puns, and I liked the paradox of the last continent to be created also being the most ancient, but the story was slow to get started and just didn't flow for me. Not one of my favourite Pratchetts.
'What?' said the Senior Wrangler. 'Are you saying that before you apply for the job of housekeeper of a university you should seriously consider being eaten by sharks on the shores of some mysterious continent thousands of years before you are born?'
'She didn't ask many questions at the interview, I know that.'
Another book featuring Rincewind and the senior faculty members of the Unseen University, and set in EcksEcksEcksEcks (the Disc World equivalent of Australia). Rincewind meets a Trickster kangaroo who sends him on a quest, invents brown sticky stuff to spread on bread while trying to make beer and vegetable soup, and finds that the useful Ecksian phrase "No Worries" will see him through in almost any circumstance. Meanwhile, the wizards find themselves trapped after climbing through a portal in a bathroom, meet a god with rather strange ideas about creation, and see a new side to the university's formidable housekeeper, Mrs Whitlow.
As usual there were a lot of funny moments and silly puns, and I liked the paradox of the last continent to be created also being the most ancient, but the story was slow to get started and just didn't flow for me. Not one of my favourite Pratchetts.
