The book houses the 8 most powerful spells in the entire Discworld & one of them leapt from the pages & housed itself in Rincewind’s head. As a student at the Unseen University (the Discworld’s premier school of magic) he sneaked a look into a powerful magic book called the Octavo.
Rincewind’s problem is that no other spell will lodge itself in his mind long enough for him to learn it. Rincewind is a wizard, of sorts…an incompetent, failure of man who feels the need to point out that he is a wizard to everyone having stitched his title into his hat (misspelled as Wizzard though). The Colour of Magic is the first Discworld book released in 1983. That’s not to suggest that they are bad books, not in the slightest but compared to what the series would become they pale in comparison. Whenever I introduce someone to the series I always tell them not to be put off by the first couple of books as they can be a difficult & testing read. The Discworld series has evolved to such an extent that the early books seem out of place.
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