The Color of Magic: Discworld by Terry Pratchett
The Color of Magic - A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Discworld with Great A'Tuin
It was whimsical and fun with endearing characters. While Rincewind and the tourist Twoflower went on their adventures, I quite enjoyed his luggage popping up from time to time to add to the levity and excitement.
If you are looking for a well written fantasy book or series, The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel would be a good place to start. And since Pratchett has written quite a few Discworld novels, someones has even created a very helpful chart: The Discworld Reading Order Guide.
Also, since the goegraphy is somewhat confusing, which is bound to happen when your planet is a flat disc on the back for four elephants which are, in turn, standing on the back of Great A’Tuin, a giant tortise, there are a number of maps available.
Recommended? Absolutely.
The sheer volume of volumes (and lack of omnibuses) has kept me from really getting into Discworld.
I can recommend the TV version of The Color of Magic. Now that I think of it, I liked all the TV versions of the books, though The Color of Magic was the best.
I will have to check out the TV show, I had heard good things about it too. To try and keep from getting overwhelmed by all the various books, I am just going to stick to one of the story threads. I was really glad to find that reading order flow chart, otherwise I would have been completely lost!