Customer Reviews
Faust with zits and teenage dreams - By: Jeremy Bevan, 20 Dec 2008 
The one where a teenage demonologist tries to make a demon grant him three wishes, but summons up Rincewind the deeply incompetent wizard (last seen disappearing into the Dungeon Dimensionsin `Sourcery') instead. Consequently, the results are a little odd: the Luggage becomes an Aztec-like god; there's a (faint) whiff of Homer's `Iliad' as Rincewind & the book's eponymous central character journey to seek the world's most beautiful woman; & what should be a Dantesque hell turns out to be a bureaucratic nightmare. A Faust of fun for those who like their parody Mephistophelean.
Another Hilarious Romp on the Discworld - By: J. Chippindale, 22 Jan 2008 
Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today & his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book was first publishedin 1988 & is number sixin the Discworld novels.
You would think that a fantasy world full of trolls, zombies, witches, vampires would be an alien concept to most readers. Werewolves & dwarvesin the Ank Morpork city watch. Wizards running a university. All this produced by one of the funniest minds writing today. Surely this type of writing would have a very limited readership. Not a bit of it, new books by Pratchett are almost as eagerly awaited as are the current J. K. Rowling offerings.
What do you do when you are fourteen years old & live on a place as crazy as the Discworld. Well, whatever fourteen year old boys do wherever they live. Make a nuisance of themselves. Eric has achieved that magical age of fourteen, how, nobody knows & has decided that as he is a little devil himself he might as well try & raise a few more, with less than successful results. What he does manage to raise is our old friend Rincewind, a wizard. Now what Rincewind doesn't know about wizardry really isn't worth knowing. No really it isn't worth knowing. Of course where Rincewind goes, the Luggage will surely follow. Now this really is worth having, a piece of luggage that never gets lost & it does, it always manages to find you. What a boon for the modern day airport.
The usual hilarious mayhem occurs, hocus pocus, the old three wishes trick & even a trip to hell, not to be recommended for the those of a nervous disposition. Hell that is, not the book which is hilarious & should be recommended to anybody & everybody.
brilliant! - By: Laevalus, 08 Oct 2006 Eric is a hilarious novel by Terry Pratchett. It beginsin Ankh- Morpork, where the University wizards are performing the Rite of AshKente, which summons Death, when they find out that Rincewind, a cowardly wizard ,is stuckin the Dungeon Dimensions, due to the events of Sourcery. As he was there, he was summoned as a demon by Eric, a demonologist, & his parrot, who has a limited vocabulary, so keeps saying " wossname". He must grant Eric 3 wishes. So Eric, parrot & Rincewind (and his Luggage ,a fearsome walking chest, who attacks enemies of its owner), set off on a journey through time which includes such horrors as wheels being used as headgear, cleaners being bribed, & small rat faced men with sandwiches. I loved this book, & you will want to read it again & again.
Good as ever - By: Mr. J. J. Percival, 15 Sep 2006 There is littlein this world as dependable as Pratchett. Though one of his shortest, & with a story line unashamedly borrowed (riped ofin technical speak) it's a joy to read from cover to cover. He even manages to squeeze that most popular of Discworld inhabitantsin - Read it, though notin public, as people give you funny looks
Eric review. - By: , 19 Feb 2006 Eric is an intriguing classic.In Eric,an amateur demonologist inadvertently thinks that he has summoned a powerful demon but instead he has summoned Rincewind,the Disc's most inept & cowardly wizard & his lethal travel accesory the Luggage.Together they will go on a fantastic journey that will make Eric wish ferverantly that he had never been born.If you like reading sci-fi,fantasy or the Iliad then read Eric.If you enjoy this book then read books 1,2,5,17,22.
