Book Review - The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

My favorite author...

The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Synopsis: (Discworld books are WAY too hard to explain so...from the back:)

"There is big trouble at the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's lone institute of higher learning. And the one person who can remedy the situation is ... Rincewind, not only most inept magic-doer the UU ever produced but currently stranded on the unfinished down-under continent of Fourecks. No worries though, the UU faculty is taking steps to bring Rincewind back, traveling magically to his general vicinity...several thousands of years too early. Meanwhile, the wizard in question has big troubles of his own, thanks to a pushy mystical kangaroo trickster named Scrappy and a mob of Fourecksians determined to make Rincewind a fabled folk hero (after they hang him, of course). But no worries, things could turn out for the best - if he somehow makes it rain for the first time ever...and if a group of time-traveling academics can teach and inquisitive god a thing or two about evolution and (gulp!) sex."

Some great passages:

A god pondering humans:

"...breaking the shakles of irrational prejudice and, in short, exercising the brains their god had given them, except of course they hadn't been given them by any god, lord knows, so what they really ought to do was exercise those brains developed over millennia in response to the external stimuli and the need to control those hands with their opposable thumbs, another damn good idea that he was very proud of. Or would have been, of course, if he existed."

A thought on sheep:

"Mind you, the people in the bar included three sheep in overalls and a couple of kangaroos playing darts.
And they weren't exactly sheep. They looked more like, well...human sheep. Sticking out ears, white curls, definite sheepish look, but standing upright, with hands. And he was pretty sure that there was no way you could get a cross between a human and a sheep. If there was, people would definitely have found out by now, especially in the more isloated rural districts."