{"id":49681,"date":"2023-08-12T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49681"},"modified":"2023-09-10T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:12:18","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-colour-of-magic-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/12\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-colour-of-magic-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1182,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/5b0c29b5-bb29-4939-8f83-e0cd0bb4f7d2&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241108184725\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/5b0c29b5-bb29-4939-8f83-e0cd0bb4f7d2&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 07:22:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 13:09:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 10:35:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 10:35:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>37\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/5b0c29b5-bb29-4939-8f83-e0cd0bb4f7d2\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019ve absorbed a certain amount of general Pratchett-related knowledge through decades of geek osmosis, until now I\u2019ve not read any of his work (aside from his <em>Good Omens<\/em> collaboration with Neil Gaiman). Having been gifted a nearly complete selection of Discworld ebooks, after looking at several reading guides with various and sundry suggestions of where to start and how to continue, I finally just decided to start at the beginning and (over time) work my way through in publication order. Of course, this means that the first book I\u2019ve read is one that many lists seem to agree might not be the best introduction to the series, which I suppose I can see &#8211; it does have a definite first-book \u201cI have this idea for a humorous fantasy world series, let\u2019s see if it works\u201d feel to it. That said, it\u2019s frequently amusing (particularly for someone old enough to have been reading fantasy in the 80s; much of this book might not land as solidly for someone raised on modern fantasy), and I actually found the idea of the Wyrmburg and its inverted dragonhold, where the riders walk along the ceiling by hanging upside down from rings by using hooked boots particularly imaginative. Admittedly, if I hadn\u2019t already come across enough snippets, quotes, and other mentions of Pratchett and Discworld it might not be enough to solidly hook me, but as it is, I\u2019m looking forward to reading on and seeing how Pratchett evolves the concept through the later books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9959-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Colour of Magic on my iPad\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9959-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9959-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9959-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9959-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_9959-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally just decided to start at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5759,2165],"class_list":["post-49681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}