Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times: A Discworld Novel

Pros: Funny, good characters
Cons: A little predictable, missing the sparkle of Pratchett's best work

They have a curse… They say… May you live in INTERESTING TIMES Take one hopeless Wizard with an advanced sense of preservation. Call him Rincewind. Have him somehow save the world several times without ever getting the ...

Pros: Slapstick Rincewind funnies with political commentary.
Cons: This one has none to my feeble little mind.

“May You Live in Interesting Times”. This is the strongest curse that the people of the ‘Counterweight Continent’ can muster. You see rules and tradition run their lives. This land of communism sets great store in examinations indeed, a 3000 word ...

Pros: Hysterically funny, excellent satire, The Silver Hoard
Cons: Drags a bit in the "Lord Hong" parts on the audiobook

I read this book last year, and just finished listening to the Audiobook (Read by Nigel Planer) with my children. "Interesting Times" is the fifth book in the Rincewind series, in case you want to read them in order here they are: ...

Pros: Same humorous discworld setting.
Cons: Rincewind, Asian stereotypes.

While Terry Pratchett’s Interesting Times is an interesting read, you do feel a bit cursed when done.

The caricatures of Chinese/Asians that Terry has created in the city of HungHung seem a little disturbing. Are they meant to be...

Pros: Cohen's back
Cons: Rincewind's back

Interesting Times is, along with Small Gods, considered to be the best Discworld has to offer. It features some of the richest characters set in a wonderfully exotic setting, politics, barbarian hordes of marauding senior citizens, and on top of it all...

Pros: winding plot, strange characters, new land
Cons: several inconsistencies, too many typos

Interesting Times, another Discworld novel, follows the adventures of Rincewind the wizard (well, the "wizard" part is arguable). As the story starts, he is currently living on an otherwise-uninhabited island, living a peaceful life and...

Pros: Rincewinds ineptitude
Cons: slighty confusing

Although the novel interesting times is not the Terry Pratchett book for beginners , there are only 2 reasons for this. First of all you need to understand the disc world and more importantly the city of Ankh-Morpork and the way the people of the city...

Pros: Extremely funny.
Cons: Pratchetts older books are hard to find.

The name of this novel doesn't quite sum it up. "Interesting Times" by Terry Pratchett is a lot more than interesting. Some of the odd-ball things said and done in this book would make the most cold-hearted person bust out laughing.
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Pros: Spontaneous, hilarious, deep, true to the Discworld.
Cons: Too short

The first Discworld novels set a precedent and standard and developed a whole new breed of fantasy reader and writer. Interesting Times well lives up to the expectations of the Prattchet fans, absorbing us in a mess of corruption and danger. Rincewind is...