Yet another book starring our beloved Rincewind. In this book we meet the boy Coin, the first sourcerer in ages, posessed of his father's staff he begins to renovate first the Unseen University, then Ankh-Morpork, and spreading on over the remainder of the Disc. In the meantime, Rincewind is being forced first to hide away the remainder of the Wizard's Magic, with the help of Cohen's long lost daughter, Conina, a want-to-be hair dresser, that he finds he has feelings for. However, she has eyes only for the barbarian-hero-in-training Nijel. If that was not enough, let us drop in the Seriph of Al Khali, Creosote, an out of touch royal who does nothing more than write poorly thought out poetry and drink himself silly and his magical relics, including a Genie and a flying carpet. In Rincewind's final act of bravery he saves Coin and of course the Discworld, but will he survive? ( )

Rincewind and the luggage return for a really funny adventure, anything with rincewind in to me is always going to be funny, one of the best discworld novels. ( )

The fifth in the Discworld series of novels. Once again we meet the wizard Rincewind and his Luggage, the Librarian (ook!) and several staff of the Unseen University. The theme this time is heredity, or possibly destiny, and the hazards of having interesting parentage. We meet Conina, the epic daughter of Cohen the Barbarian; and Niijel, who yearns to be heroic. And then there's Coin, eighth son of an eighth son and destined to be an uber-powerful wizard, a Sourcerer -- except that Coin has other ideas. This comic tale draws on all the stereotypes and tropes of the fantasy genre, twisting them into an entertaining new yarn. ( )

Ah, this one was a page-turner -- something I've not really been able to say about Discworld books. It made me happy. ( )

#5 in publication order of the Discworld fantasy books, this one again features Rincewind, the Luggage, Librarian, etc. as they speed away from Ankh-Morpork with the Archchancellor’s wizard hat. The hat asked to be stolen, you see, to keep young Coin, a true Sorcerer who walked into the Univesity and proclaimed himself Archchancellor, from putting it on. As always, Pratchett’s books make me laugh out loud, and also make me read slowly because sometimes one of his puns or jokes won’t hit me til several pages later—then I have to go back and read it again to make sure I got it! LOL ( )