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Eric by terry pratchett5/31/2023 It’s still fresh and funny and fast paced and so damn entertaining. I’m delighted to say that my impressions of the novel haven’t changed in 16 years and that I still loved reading this. I mean, when have wishes ever gone wrong for anybody in a story, especially one with “Faust” crossed out on the cover? The three wishes Eric asks for - To be Ruler of the World To Meet the Most Beautiful Woman in All History and To Live Forever, should be easy to arrange. Except the “demon” is Rincewind, the Disc’s most inept wizzard (the second z is intentional as Rincewind can’t spell), who happens to have gotten stuck in the Dungeon Dimensions and, by chance, wound up in a teenage boy’s bedroom. Coming to a beloved book after 16 years is great as you know you’ll like it and you’ve all but forgotten everything in the story.Įric is the Disc’s first demonologist hacker who summons a demon to grant him three wishes. So, going through a dry spell in reading where everything I picked up seemed to, well, suck, I was immediately drawn to a small paperback that’d fallen off my shelf - “Eric”, a book I haven’t read since I was 12 (I’m now 28). Like a lot of people I first read Pratchett when I was a teenager and have stuck with him well into adulthood. “‘Multiple exclamation marks,’ he went on, shaking his head ‘are a sure sign of a diseased mind.’”
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