Review: Eric
EricMesa
- One minute read - 178 words
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my second time reading the book. Dropped rating from 4 stars to 3 stars
A seemingly novella-length tale featuring the return of Rincewind, unseen since the events of Sourcery. The story is a parody of Faust (my paperback version even has Faust crossed out and replaced with Eric in the header for each page). As such, it’s a return to the earliest Discworld books - a series of pastiches as each of Eric’s wishes goes all malicious genie on him. The B story is a slightly more conventional story involving hell as a parody of office culture. The head demon has made hell incredibly boring with memos and team building and all the things that the movie Office Space made fun of.
It’s fun and it’s a fast read. You almost don’t need to know anything about the Discworld and it’s almost standalone. The only thing you wouldn’t understand is The Luggage that Rincewind inherits from Two-Flower in the first two books.