The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

Terry Pratchett

Jan 2007 · Transworld Digital · Narrated by Tony Robinson

About this audiobook

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.

But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea...

The Colour of Magic is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series, of which some 20 million copies have been sold. This special hardcover edition is reissued to commemorate the twenty-first anniversary of its first publication by Colin Smythe Limited in 1983. Since then the Discworld has spawned a further thirty-one titles and become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.

Ratings and reviews

This is missing half the content of the original book. I'm positive now that it's just missing tons of scenes from the book. It should be a good 6 hours and change or so when compared to the CD version.

The source material is, of course, fantastic and I generally like the narration. However, why, oh why, an already short paperback needs an abridged 3-hour audiobook version is beyond me. Nobody wants that, especially as the full audiobooks are now hard to get. Do better.

I liked the story, but the narrator droes voices, including nearly inaudible characters who force me to choose between missing parts of the story, damaging my ears with the rest, or devoting my attention to the volume control.

About the author

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.