Discworld Reading Club #22: The Last Continent

Cafe Society
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The books so far:

  1. The Colour of Magic
  2. The Light Fantastic
  3. Equal Rites
  4. Mort
  5. Sourcery
  6. Wyrd Sisters
  7. Pyramids
  8. Guards! Guards!
  9. Eric
  10. Moving Pictures
  11. Reaper Man
  12. Witches Abroad
  13. Small Gods
  14. Lords and Ladies
  15. Men at Arms
  16. Soul Music
  17. Interesting Times
  18. Maskerade
  19. Feet of Clay
  20. Hogfather
  21. Jingo
    “All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is bastards.”

This is the last Rincewind adventure (at least, that we’ve had in a long time); what do you think?

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Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. His mental approach to it could be visualised as a sort of business flowchart with, at the top, a circle entitled “Me, who does the telling” and, connected below it by a line, a large circle entitled “Everyone else”.

I never was that big a Rincewind fan to begin with, and this book took me three readings to get the slightest appreciation for. The main plot plods, the “B” plot sags, and the whole ending was as iffy as a 2 week old prawn. Pretty much a rehash of every Rincewind joke told before.

Skip it if you’re a casual reader of the Disc. Only for the completeist.

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We’ve had this one.

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[various expletives deleted]

I’ll ask a mod to lock this one and set up the next one…