Book 57: "Interesting Times" by Terry Pratchett
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kittiwakeNecessarily Extended Duration To The Red Army! Regrettable Decease Necessarily Extended Duration To The Red Army! Regrettable Decease Without Undue Suffering To The Forces of Oppression!
This book starts with Lord Vetinari not receiving a message, not carried by Albatross, definitely not from the Counterweight Continent, and certainly not asking him to send the "Great Wizzard" there immediately. The faculty of the Unseen University decide that Rincewind is the man for the job, since he is the only one to spell wizard with two Zs, and magically transport him to the heart of the Agatean Empire, where he arrives to find himself in the midst of a crisis. Five noble families and their armies are gathered outside the capital city awaiting the death of the Emperor, while a strangely polite revolution s slowly gathering force, fuelled by Twoflower's descriptions of life in Ankh-Morpork in his booklet entitled "What I Did On My Holidays".
Tyranny, stagnation, revolution, rumour and barbarian heroes make for a very good read indeed.
This book starts with Lord Vetinari not receiving a message, not carried by Albatross, definitely not from the Counterweight Continent, and certainly not asking him to send the "Great Wizzard" there immediately. The faculty of the Unseen University decide that Rincewind is the man for the job, since he is the only one to spell wizard with two Zs, and magically transport him to the heart of the Agatean Empire, where he arrives to find himself in the midst of a crisis. Five noble families and their armies are gathered outside the capital city awaiting the death of the Emperor, while a strangely polite revolution s slowly gathering force, fuelled by Twoflower's descriptions of life in Ankh-Morpork in his booklet entitled "What I Did On My Holidays".
Tyranny, stagnation, revolution, rumour and barbarian heroes make for a very good read indeed.
