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Interesting Times | Rating | |
| B | |||
| Terry Pratchett | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| Discworld | The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Soul Music, Feet of Clay, Interesting Times, Jingo, The Firth Elephant, Going Postal | ||
On the counterweight continent, far indeed from the familiar city of Ankh-Morpork, a war is brewing. It is time for the empire of Hong, Sung, Fang, Tang, and McSweeney to choose a new ruler, and the land swarms with malcontents. Revolutionaries who are convinced that there is a better way, a more... social way. And Rincewind himself has been summoned to help put things to right. Two problems: he's a little more concerned with keeping himself alive. (That's only one problem, true, but it's a big enough concern for Rincewind that it's worth counting twice.)
As usual with Pratchett's novels, Interesting Times is an amusing twist on the real world — in this case, Discworld's version of the Far East. There are the usual puns and wordplay, and everyone has the typically odd way of thinking sideways peculiar to the setting. More importantly, a lot of old favorites are back. Cohen the Barbarian, the mobile luggage, and of course Rincewind himself are all mixed into the usual shenanegans. Even Twoflower makes an appearance, his first since the second book. It feels like a friendly class reunion of what I consider the original Discworld characters.
And yet...
Although there is nothing really to complain over, there is also nothing extraordinary to rave over. It's a fine story, amusing and even funny in spots, but as a whole it simply doesn't stand out. The book is fun, but there's just nothing much to talk about. I enjoyed reading it well enough while it was in my hands, but it's definitely not one of Pratchett's more memorable novels.
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