by Terry Pratchett · 2012
ISBN: 057512315X 9780575123151
Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Humorous
Page count: 160
<p><b>Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is the Discworld's most incompetent wizard...</b><br><br>Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff.<br><br>But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain.<br><br>Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend stars many of the Discworld's most popular characters in an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more - this time, quite fervently, that he'd never been born.<br><br><b>Readers adore <i>Eric</i>:</b><br><br><b>'Packed with references and laugh-out-loud scenes and I enjoyed myself immensely' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br></b><br>'<b>Rincewind and The Luggage are two of my favourite characters </b>and Death makes an appearance too! He is just brilliant, one of Pratchett's many masterpieces of imagination. <b>The book is laugh aloud funny </b>as all his books are' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'<b>Fresh and funny and fast paced and so damn entertaining. </b>It reminded me exactly why I fell in love with Pratchett's Discworld in the first place' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'Rincewind takes the reader (and, this time, Eric and a parrot) on <b>a hilarious, frenetic and fast-paced journey</b>; for running away is his specialty. . . <b>True British comedy and wit, rollicking fun</b>' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br><b>'This is one long sequence of gags that manages to have several shrewd observations about humanity while still being funny' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</b></p>