The Light Fantastic is the second book in the Wizards series, (but you can read the Discworld novels in any order!). The Light Fantastic is Terry Pratchett’s second Discworld novel continues the story of the Colour of Magic – a hilarious romp around the Discworld! Like that book, this one is mostly episodic, meaning that the main characters arrive in a new locale, get into trouble, resolve the situation (or watch as someone else resolves it), and move on to the next location. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute. The Light Fantastic does a great job of finishing what Pratchett began in The Color of Magic. It takes about 4 Hours and 27 minutes on average for a reader to read The Light Fantastic. Thankfully, geriatric barbarian Cohen is on hand with to help the quest to save the universe and unite the spell in Rincewind’s head with Discworld’s most powerful book of magic, the Octavo. Buy The Light Fantastic Mass Market Paperbound Book By: Terry Pratchett from as low as 7.64. What it doesn’t need is Rincewind, an inept and cowardly wizard who is still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or Twoflower, the well-meaning tourist whose luggage has a mind (and legs) of its own. The Discworld is in danger, heading towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, its magic fading. Unfortunately, that hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind. “The Octavo filled the room with a dull, sullen light, which wasn’t strictly light at all but the opposite of light darkness isn’t the opposite of light, it is simply its absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic.”
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