The book starts with Rincewind being expelled from the Unseen University of Wizards after 40 years of him failing to learn even the most basic of spells. He then wonders over to the dock to jump into the water and kill himself. However Twoflower appears, who asks him for directions, Rincewind decides he should help this “tourist” when he offers him four very large solid gold coins, per day if he works as his tour guide.
Rincewind however mugs him and steals his horse and a fist full of cash but the ruler of Ankh-Morpork arrests him and decides to execute him if he doesn’t give Twoflower a good impression of the country.
I think it is one of the best books I have read and at some points is hilariously funny. I think the funniest line in the book is:
“This must be the cir-cum-fence!”
“Don’t you mean the circumference!?”
“NO the cir-cum-fence it’s the fence that runs around the edge of the Discworld!”
Reviewed by Warren Peace
