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I just finished reading "The Colour of Magic". | by nix | 2007-06-17 11:15:13 |
| Keep reading. It gets better. |
by klaranth |
2007-06-17 11:40:39 |
Keep in mind, that that book came out a good ten years ago.
You might also be in need of the Annotation file to find out the hidden funnies.
Lots of the in-jokes are British.
To name three:
- [p. 9/9] "[...] two figures were watching with considerable interest."
The two barbarians, Bravd and Weasel, are parodies of Fritz Leiber's fantasy heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. The Swords series of books in which they star are absolute classics, and have probably had about as much influence on the genre as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
- [p. 18/17] The inn called 'The Broken Drum' gets burned down in this book. The later Discworld novels all feature an inn called 'The Mended Drum'. The novel Strata contains (on p. 35/42) an explanation of why you would call a pub 'The Broken Drum' in the first place: "You can't beat it".
[p. 44/39] "'Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits?'"
Surprising as it may seem (or at least as it was to me), there are quite a few people who do not understand this cryptification of 'economics', even though it is explicitly explained by Terry a bit later, on p. 71/63: 'echo-gnomics'. Some of the confusion perhaps arises from the fact that we don't usually associate gnomes with spirits, as in: ghosts. But I think Terry here simply means spirits (as in: souls) living underground, with the emphasis on the word 'underground'. |
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