• Title: The Colour of Magic
• Author: Terry Pratchett
• Genre/Subject: sf
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1983
• Start date: 7/24/2023
• Finish date: 7/28/2023

Review:

I really wanted to like this. But I just couldn’t get into it.

It’s schlocky 80s comic-fantasy. You know one thing: a troll is about to kill the protagonist but then gets asked why and then delivers a monologue about how life as a troll is hard and how he’s misunderstood, etc.

That would be fine in a short, but as a whole novel, I just didn’t dig it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a name for this genre, sort of Brit-comico-fi-fantasy. I’m talking Hitchhiker’s Guide, Red Dwarf, Discworld.

I’ll leave it for others to investigate the other 41 (41! :O) books in the Discworld series.