Together they make a wonderful pairing & you’ll be transfixed by their travels & the many characters they meet. Twoflower & his innocence is adorable & the wonder in which he sees things rubs off on you as the reader. He is a lovable rogue but one you can relate to & have sympathy for. The Colour of Magic is a wonderful introduction to the character Rincewind, one of the the most famous & important of the entire Discworld series. All with that wonderful splash of Terry Pratchett humour. The duo will strike up the unlikeliest of friendships & end up travelling to the edge of the Disc during their adventures. A task that seems nigh on impossible considering how the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork see strangers with pocketfuls of gold. Rincewind by a series of unfortunate events ends up being tasked with serving as Twoflowers guide & protector. This is something of a surprise to the inhabitants of the city as its more of a seething cesspool of nastiness & debauchery. Twoflower is a pleasant man who has heard tales of wonder & beauty about the Disc’s biggest city, Ankh-Morpork. The Colour of Magic introduces the Discworld’s first ever tourist, Twoflower who hails from the Counterweight Continent.

Now no spell will dare stay there out of fear.įor all his failings as a wizard what Rincewind is incredibly good at is surviving, mainly thanks to his legs (he runs away…a lot). The book houses the 8 most powerful spells in the entire Discworld & one of them leapt from the pages & housed itself in Rincewind’s head. As a student at the Unseen University (the Discworld’s premier school of magic) he sneaked a look into a powerful magic book called the Octavo. Rincewind’s problem is that no other spell will lodge itself in his mind long enough for him to learn it. Rincewind is a wizard, of sorts…an incompetent, failure of man who feels the need to point out that he is a wizard to everyone having stitched his title into his hat (misspelled as Wizzard though). The Colour of Magic is the first Discworld book released in 1983.

That’s not to suggest that they are bad books, not in the slightest but compared to what the series would become they pale in comparison. Whenever I introduce someone to the series I always tell them not to be put off by the first couple of books as they can be a difficult & testing read.

The Discworld series has evolved to such an extent that the early books seem out of place.

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