Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

This time we follow Rincewind¹ as he very reluctantly² travels to the counterweight continent³ to serve as The Great Wizzard for an inept but polite revolutionary army⁴, resulting in a book that if by most other authors would have been an outstanding, but since it is by Pratchett, is merely very, very good.

As we've come to expect from other works by Pratchett, it has a fast but twisted plot, excellent dialogue, well thought out characters and is funny in the laugh-out-loud way he's a master of, without resorting to puns as more than an occasional indulgence.

[1] Failed wizard and survivor extraordinaire.
[2]"How long can you hold your breath?"⁵
[3] The gold rich continent placed on the opposite hemicircle of the world⁶, to balance the weight and ease the strain on the elephants.
[4] With slogans like "Unpleasantness To Oppressors When Convenient".
[5] The alternative to travel is to be nailed upside down to one of the supports of the Brass Bridge for two high tides and then beheaded.
[5] The Discworld, a circular flat world, resting on the backs of four mighty elephants, who are standing on the carapace of a giant turtle, though the mechanics of the world are not relevant to the story.