La Huitième Couleur

This is the first Discworld book but my second, having read Small Gods first, and although supposedly they can be read in any order I prefer, much like Star Wars, to read in the published sequence, as in this case (not Star Wars), it looks like the books get better over time. This one is still fun but doesn't have the sly digs of Small Gods, it's more like a D&D parody. And while I complained about the lack of women with speaking roles in Small Gods, there are a couple of notable female characters here, admittedly with high levels of nudity (it's a miracle HBO didn't adapt this instead of Game of Thrones), but both in leadership positions, one queen and one goddess, so take that DEI and smoke it!

That sentence was on the front cover of the edition I've read (although I usually despise comments places there apart from title/author) and it was quite on the spot for once: the style and irony of Jerome K. Jerome applied in an archetypal fantasy novel. Not sure about the Peter Pan's part of that comment, as I didn't read it yet, but I guess: Twoflower makes for it?

In any case, it was a very slow reading compared to the first one I've discovered from the Discworld saga ("Sourcery"), so the enthusiasm went a bit down and it's understandable I found it less appealing also given it's the first one -but I've liked it nonetheless as an absurd/whimsical reading! ;)

Bonitos recuerdos y bonitos olvidos desde aquella primera lectura. Muchos consideran que no es lo mejor para empezar el Mundodisco, pero no me parece tan mal si tienes curiosidad. Cierto es que el libro va cogiendo ritmo, y cierto es también que es el primer Pratchett, pero me ha hecho sonreír como la primera vez.