The Light Fantastic

No self-respecting High Priest is going to go through all the business with the trumpets and the processions and the banners and everything, and then shove his knife into a daffodil and a couple of plums. —Rincewind

The Light Fantastic

The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic reminds me somewhat of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I think it's the way so much is going on, and how random it appears. Also Rincewind / Twoflower have a Ford Prefect / Arthur Dent something about them, only reversed.

The Colour of Magic (2008)

Isn't Jeremy Irons lovely? Um, some other stuff's happened too -- I've been too busy admiring Jeremy's hair and spotting the bits filmed in Snowdonia. (Pyg Track!)

Laughed lots, and there are a few deviations from the book...

But it's that changeable sort of story, like The Hitchhiker's Guide.

The Colour of Magic

remarkable

a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa, home of the firegods or so it is said

The Colour of Magic

"You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now."