Ramblings about the Discworld series

I finished reading a book earlier called Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. It's the fifth published book of the Discworld series, but according to the suggested reading order chart I'm following, it's only the third I've read. Confusing thing, the suggested reading order, but still very helpful.

Now, this is a very funny series. The Discworld itself is quite literally a disc, where it really is possible to fall off the edge. The disc is held upon the backs of four huge elephants, which stand on the back of an even bigger turtle that swims through space.

Magic exists here, mainly in use by wizards, who are all (I think) male. If there's a female wizard, then I don't know about her. I think that one of the books said that this is because the wizards turn away the females because they'd probably be embarrasingly good at it. Oh, and a slightly random note, but the wizards are not allowed to get married and have kids, on the account of the eighth son of a wizard becoming a sourcerer, and wizards barely get along with other wizards, let alone a sourcerer.

Now, I'm not very far into the series, since there's a lot of books in it, but I really like it. The main character of the branch of the series I'm reading now is called Rincewind. He is an utter failure of a wizard, having only ever been able to manage to cast one spell. It says in the books something along the lines of him being doubtful of reaching level zero of wizardry, which everyone is born with. (Because in this series, wizards are ranked by levels, and you get promoted by wearing the pointy shoes of whoever was unfortunate enough to stand in your way. Assassinations are so common in this series that it's actually considered a normal cause of death for wizards) He's a coward, and runs away from everything. Quite literally. But because of this, he is still alive. He's actually quite funny like that, managing to escape Death's grasp quite a few times.

Oh, Death is real here, in the way of a grim reaper with a skull face carrying a scythe. He's funny to me :) And though I haven't gotten to it yet, there is another branch of the series that deals with Death. Actually his granddaughter (he has an adopted daughter, which is the girl's mother, not blood related) who somehow inherited powers from him.

I found this series when me and my mom were looking through Netflix a while ago and came across a movie called the Hogfather. We watched half of the movie (one of two parts) and I liked it so much, even though we have yet to watch the other half. Then we found the Colour of Magic movie, and I figured that they were related almost immediately, and when I looked it up, I found that it was actually a series of books, so I checked the book out from my library and I am loving it. One day when I have enough money that I don't mind buying a few books, I'll start building up this series. I know that I'll read this over and over :)

There's not much else I can say on the Discworld series. I mean, there is, but chances are that the more I read the more my opinions will change, and in the end it'll all be irrelevant anyways. All I'll say then, I suppose, is that I love this series. Oh, and a piece of luggage made from sapient pearwood is very useful, if not extremely dangerous. I want one :)