The Last Continent
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0552154199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 331 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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He’s the only hero left. Practically everything that’s not poisonous is venomous. A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, Yes all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard. But it’s the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it’ll die in a few days, exceptWho is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker. On the Discworld’s last continent, it’s hot. Still no worries, eh?. It’s dryvery dry. There was this thing once called the Wet, which no one now believes in
His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing to
Mrs. Entity said One of Pratchett's better Discworld novels.. This was an great story with some interesting and unexpected turns. I loved the talking kangaroo, and the two Creator characters. The wizards are once again the Keystone Kops of the story, bumbling their way into a different time and place through a window in the bedroom of a missing professor, then bumbling their way back to their own time and place, accidentally inventing surfing and duckbilled platypuses in the interim. Meanwhile, Rincewind is lost. He is so lost. But his l. Creating-Serenity Reviews said Now this is another Rincewind favorite! Sadly I had not read this one so. Ahh! Now this is another Rincewind favorite! Sadly I had not read this one so this is a first time for me and I loved it! I've never been to Australia, which Terry Pratchett says this book is nothing about by the way, but after reading this I think it would be fun to venture over there.In this one Rincewind is at his best. He's once again told that HE and only he can save the Discworld but he's having none of it. Saving worlds puts you into a lot of danger! He's tired of being. Ikini said "Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn’t always beat actual thought" is from. How does Terry Pratchett manage to write books that are both hilarious and profound? "Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn’t always beat actual thought" is from The Last Continent. In the intro he says it's not about Australia, really, just about someplace Australia-like. He must have had a heck-uv-an interesting trip to the Round World (tm) Australia to write this book. In this installment of Rincewind the Wizzard's adventures, the cowardly Rincewind is tasked with savi
Rincewind's arrival in Fourecks has distorted the space-time continuum, and he has to sort it out before the whole place dries up and blows away. Terry Pratchett's 22nd Discworld novel, The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure. Pretty frightening, given "the true wizard's instinct to amble aimlessly into dangerous places," and then "stop and argue about exactly what kind of danger it is." If you're baffled by all this, no worries, mate. When you fi