Interesting Times: A Discworld Novel“Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz . . . has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland . . . brilliant.” —A. S. Byatt When war, magic, politics, and one deliciously inept wizard collide, zany mayhem ensues in this delightful satire in Sir Terry Pratchett’s internationally bestselling Discworld series. To the fine denizens of Discworld, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” is a curse. No one wishes to hear those words, especially not Rincewind. The distinctly unmagical sorcerer has barely survived more than a few “interesting times” and he isn’t looking to experience any more. But when a request for a “Great Wizzard” arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, Rincewind is named emissary. The Agatean Empire’s current ruler is on the brink of downfall, and chaos is all but certain to arise in the wake. For some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and the ensuing bloodletting. Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are already hard at work planning for the looting and pillaging. Anyone can be a hero, but there’s only one Rincewind—and he believes he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Interesting Times is the fifth installment in the Wizards collection (and the 18th Discworld book). The other books in the Wizards collection include:
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... Thing is ... " " What ? " " I just hope it never goes plop . " But this is the Discworld , which has not only the turtle but also the four giant elephants on which the wide , slowly turning wheel of the world revolves . * There is the ...
... thing it saw was hundreds of legs and thousands of toes , a whole pork pie factory of piggy - wiggies . Many things went on at Unseen University and , regret- tably , teaching had to be one of them . The faculty had long ago confronted ...
... thing broke and we had ants all over the place . " " We've sorted that out , " said Ponder . " We- " " I must admit there was a ram's skull in the middle of it last time I looked , ” said Ridcully . " We had to add that to do occult ...
... thing Rincewind lacked . He'd never really thought about it before . Now he thought about it — or , more correctly , them — all the time . It was odd . He'd hardly ever thought about them in Ankh - Morpork , because they were there if ...
... thing about the Agatean Empire on account of once being friends with , " he glanced at his notes , " a strange little man in glasses ' who came from there and gave him this funny thing with the legs INTERESTING TIMES 23.