Colour of Magic - poll

[poohcarrot]

So how do you feel about the Colour of Magic?

I like it!

 

[pip]

Have to agree with Pooh.
Like it, Don't love it.
Still worth a read

 

[michelanCello]

I'd say it's OK... Not as a first DW read, but when you know TP's style a bit better... I hesitated between "liked it" and "OK", but since "Love it" is the highest you can get, I sticked with OK...

('cause Small Gods (and many others) I do love, there are some books I liked, and comared to them, CoM is OK...)

 

[Tiffany]

Same here, like it.
I love Equal Rites though.

 

[Tonyblack]

I like it! Always have.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

It's an age thing I think - if you were a fantasy enthusiast before CoM then it was literally a breath of fresh air in comparison to other author's work (and not in a Harry Potter sense as back then Fantasy was way serious and Tolkien ruled). I loved it then and I still like it a lot and in some ways it's a purer Discworld or a more raw and unformed one where humour is perhaps more studied.

I voted 'love it' in honour of it being the way I discovered both Terry and Discworld

 

[michelanCello]

It's an age thing I think - if you were a fantasy enthusiast before CoM then it was literally a breath of fresh air in comparison to other author's work (and not in a Harry Potter sense as back then Fantasy was way serious and Tolkien ruled). I loved it then and I still like it a lot and in some ways it's a purer Discworld or a more raw and unformed one where humour is perhaps more studied.

I voted 'love it' in honour of it being the way I discovered both Terry and Discworld

Sentimental value, eh?

Maybe that's why I like Small Gods so much... that was my first DW book...

 

[Dotsie]

When I first read it, I was blown away. It was enough to get me to read all the rest. But I can't seem to get into it now, which is a shame because the one-liners were hilarious!

 

[raisindot]

Hate it.

Well, someone had to do it. Might as well be me.



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[The Mad Collector]

It's OK but no better than that, the jokes are strained to make the parodies of things that were almost self-parodies in themselves, I advise newcomers to the series to avoid it, LF and ER and start with Mort so that they won't get the wrong impression of the rest of the series.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

I like it, Not my favourite but it's the first Discworld novel and introduced Rincewind!

 

[mspanners]

LOVE IT!

 

[LifeChild]

I like it, it got me into the series and gave me a few laughs. I'm one of those people who can't read a series out of sync though, I knew that was the first one so I had to start there and go in order, and i'm glad i've read them all in order so I can see the characters progress but at the same time I think if I were recommending TP to someone else I don't think i'd have them start with the first few, the style definitely changes and gets better later on.

 

[DaveC]

I like it, it got me into the series and gave me a few laughs. I'm one of those people who can't read a series out of sync though, I knew that was the first one so I had to start there and go in order, and i'm glad i've read them all in order so I can see the characters progress but at the same time I think if I were recommending TP to someone else I don't think i'd have them start with the first few, the style definitely changes and gets better later on.

I concur, still would reccoment the right order, though

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I loved it because when I read it there was not a lot like it at the time, although it is nowhere near his best it was the parody of Ffarhd and the Grey Mouser who did it for me, as soon as I read that. I liken that paragraph to the one in the Hobbit (riddles in the dark) where Bilbo is way down hidding from the Goblins and meets Golem who comes out with the line "what's it got in pocketses we hates it my precious " well thats the jist of it. My favorite bit of the book that was.

 

[One Man Bucket]

Like LifeChild, I read the series in order and so didn't find CoM and LF weak at the time I read them. Compared to his current writing they're certainly lacking but they were good as a way to test the waters of the Ankh

 

[swreader]

I disliked CofM intensely when I first read it. And a recent re-reading made me think it was slightly better than I had first thought, but not much. If this had been my introduction to Pratchett, I am afraid I'd not have read further. Luckily, my first book was Equal Rites--and then the rest of the witch books.

Looking at it now, I can see things that Terry picked up and expanded on in better ways later. But I can think of several other series of humorous parodies of sci-fi/fantasy that I think are funnier and to some extent better written.

Still, it's interesting to see where Terry started from. But I assume he had a two book contract, because of the ending (or non-ending) of Cof M which still irritates me as a cop-out conclusion.

 

[The rat]

I am now giving all readers and order here: YOU HAVE TO LOVE COLOR OF MAGIC! Why do you have to love it? Because with out this one book there would be no Discworld books! How can you not love the one book that started it all off! So as I said: YOU HAVE TO LOVE COLOR OF MAGIC! Or me and my little rat friends will find you and run up your pant legs…. Then you figure out the rest! :twisted:

 

[ghostsecurity28]

I like it, it got me into the series and gave me a few laughs. I'm one of those people who can't read a series out of sync though, I knew that was the first one so I had to start there and go in order, and i'm glad i've read them all in order so I can see the characters progress but at the same time I think if I were recommending TP to someone else I don't think i'd have them start with the first few, the style definitely changes and gets better later on.

I undoubtedly agree

 

[raisindot]

I am now giving all readers and order here: YOU HAVE TO LOVE COLOR OF MAGIC! Why do you have to love it? Because with out this one book there would be no Discworld books! How can you not love the one book that started it all off! So as I said: YOU HAVE TO LOVE COLOR OF MAGIC! Or me and my little rat friends will find you and run up your pant legs…. Then you figure out the rest! :twisted:

Sorry ratboy (or ratgirl). Just because something is first in a series or introduces a concept doesn't mean it has to be "loved." The late Robert Parker's classic "Spenser" series started off rather mundanely with the forgettable "Godwulf(sp.) Manuscript," and it took him close to four sequels before he started producing classics (unlike PTerry, however, the quality of his books declined rapidly over time). Not sure whether "The Hobbit" was written before the LOTR trilogy, but (to me at least) it's not a particularly great book and certainly contains nothing of the depth and sweep of the trilogy. PG Wodehouse's first Jeeves books were quite awful compared to the classics he started creating in the mid-20s. Just because you acknowledge that a certain book started a series of concept doesn't mean it's lovable. COM and TLF aren't loveable at all.




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