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The Color of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
A Favorite of 1, Read by 31, Owned by 20, Reviewed by 0, Quotes 3
The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless...(more)
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Thu Aug 24 21:48:51 UTC 2006
Source: The Color of Magic, Page: 101
Contributed by: Joël.
Terry Pratchett said

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.  Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown.
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld.  Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

Thu Aug 24 21:40:12 UTC 2006
Source: The Color of Magic, Page: 259
Contributed by: Joël.
Terry Pratchett said

Rincewind shivered.  He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.  On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get.  But usually he didn't bother the Gods, and he hoped the Gods wouldn't bother him.  Life was quite complicated enough.