Release date: 07-07-22
Rincewind, and by extension the faculty of Unseen University, have a lot of adventures, fight all sorts of monsters, sometimes with a half-brick in a sock, and visit the far corners of the Disc.
Rincewind goes off to the both the Counterweight Continent and Fourecks, as well as over the edge of the Disc. He meets the Discs first tourist, the Discs greatest hero, a kid with amazing magical skills and another without any, some very tall ladies, a strange kangaroo, and plays football. In the process we see the way the University changes as an institution, and the social developments in Ankh-Morpork.
Some of the books were written in the early years of the Discworld, so there are attitudes that reflect that. Terry Pratchett was always trying to be a better person and you can see his social attitudes changing over the course of the novels, but the Rincewind/Wizards books are heavily weighted towards his early years. There is a massive improvement in his writing skills and his social conscience between The Colour of Magic and Unseen Academicals. There are legitimate criticisms of the orientalism in Interesting Times, and the treatment of women in The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. I highly recommend The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret podcast for discussions about this.
Colin Morgan isn’t bad as a narrator, but his voices for Rincewind and some of the wizards are wrong. Sorry, they just are. I prefer Steven Briggs’ versions.
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