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Title	:	Interesting Times: The Play (Discworld Stage Adaptations)
Author	:	Stephen Briggs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Stage Adaptation
Pages	:	Pages: 102 pages
Published	:	July 4th 2002 by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Humor. Fiction. Comedy

Interesting Times: The Play (Discworld Stage Adaptations)

Stephen Briggs

Paperback | Pages: 102 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 21715 Users | 176 Reviews

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A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels

The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor. He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer and a group of seven very elderly barbarian heroes lead by Cohen the Barbarian. Opposing him, though, is the evil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men. Oh?Rincewind is also aided by Twoflower - Discworld's first tourist and the author of a subversive book, about his visit to Ankh-Morpork, which has inspired the rebels in their struggle for freedom. The book is called "What I Did On My Holidays".

 

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Original Title:	Interesting Times
ISBN:	0413772195 (ISBN13: 9780413772190)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Discworld Stage Adaptations
Characters:	Rincewind, Twoflower, The Luggage, Havelock Vetinari, DEATH, Cohen the Barbarian

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I'm not a fan of Rincewind stories to begin with, but this was absolute agony to read. The conflation of all the various Asian cultures into one monoculture is I guess supposed to be parody but now just reads as appallingly racist. Awful, awful, awful.

Excellent book very funny read this little mob are brilliant and don't know fear but funny great attitude very descriptive as you would expect from Me Pratchett .

I was introduced to Terry Pratchett about a year a go and after reading "The Fifth Elephant" was instantly hooked. In "Interesting Times", Pratchett paints another of his hilariously satirical scenarios in which his endearing characters find themselves in completely absurd political and personal situations. Pratchett is like Fantasy meets Monty Python meets Franz Kafka. He pokes fun at everything, while treating his readers to a gloriously fun (and very, very strange) yet thought-provoking read.

Of all the Discworld stories that I have read, I really enjoy the Rincewind (and the Luggage) stories. Poor Rincewind just wants a quiet life, but things just happen to him :-) His most frequest phrase is probably "Ohsh*tsh*tsh*t. I'm going to die!".I love the way that Terry Pratchett uses a parallel world/life to set up his stories. This story included the Terracotta army and other chinese-type comparisons. I won't tell you where Rincewind ends up, but a later story in the series carries his

Okay, I figured out why I didn't like Terry Pratchett the first time I tried to get into him. It's because the first time, I tried to start reading the Discworld books in order, and the early Rincewind novels BORE ME TO TEARS. This one is not super early, but it's not Pratchett at his best either. I know it's humor, but it seems to me that if you're going to write a full-length novel there should still be some, y'know, actual characterization. Rincewind isn't even a character, he's a one-line

I can't believe I'm giving a Pratchett book only 2 stars, and wondering if that's not actually one star too many. This book overflows with sour notes. The gentle, sly mocking of an entire nation (something Pratchett is quite good at, usually) veers a little too close to hurtful stereotype at times. And why did he think that the frequent jokes about rape and sexual assault (mostly made by Cohen and his crew - Cohen admonishes their scholar to allow one of the men his "wishful thinking" about

I mixed up the order on this book and The Last Continent, reading the later first. Oops. In Interesting Times Rincewind is back again and this time flung into the Agatean Empire, a thinly veiled parody of ancient China. Add in some aging barbarians (the only highlight of the book for me), the eponymous sapient pearwood trunk and the occasional wizard intervention. I've said before that the Rincewind books are my least favorite and this book didn't change that attitude. I'd call the entire book a