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Sourcery Terry Pratchett
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There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared... a source of magic... a Sourcerer. Sourcery sees the return of Rincewind and the luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest - and funniest - challenge yet. May well be considered his masterpiece... Humour such as his is an endangered species The
Times
Pratchett is a comic genius Daily
Express
One of the best and funniest English authors alive Independent
He would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction Mail
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Review by Chrissi (280201) Rating (7/10) Review
by Chrissi A matter of great concern to the wizards is the premise that Sourcery was only around at the beginning of time, when the Discworld was new, but the Discworld may not be strong enough any more to survive another onslaught of sourcery. The name of the sourcerer is Coin, a small boy with a large and frightening staff, he arrives at the Unseen University and demands a magical duel with the Archchancellor, and he beats him, demanding that, as the most powerful wizard, he should be the new Archchancellor. Meanwhile, Rincewind has been taken by a mysterious thief who has stolen the Archchancellor's hat, which would appear to have ordered its own abduction in order that it not fall into the hands of the sourcerer. They travel to find a head suitable for the hat to control against the Sourcerer, and so travel mysterious lands with a flying carpet and meet the barbarian hero Nijel the Destroyer. (Who is learning how to become a hero from a book that he bought but he did promise his mum that he would wear his thermal vest). This
book illustrates how well wizards actually get on together, i.e.
not very well at all, and how power corrupts those that want it
too badly. Of course, Rincewind just wants to be left alone, adventures
are not the kind of thing that he really wants to have. And that
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