The Last Continent

, #22

Paperback

English language

Published March 8, 1998

ISBN:
978-0-385-40989-6
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3 stars (1 review)

The Last Continent is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-second book in his Discworld series. First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time travel such as the grandfather paradox and the Ray Bradbury short story "A Sound of Thunder". It also parodies Australian people and aspects of Australian culture, such as the Crocodile Dundee, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max films, the Australian beer XXXX, Vegemite, thongs, cork hats, the Peach Melba, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, the bushranger Ned Kelly, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, and the Australian songs "Waltzing Matilda", "Down Under", and "The Man From Snowy River".

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didn't quite do it for me

3 stars

mm, i love rincewind, so i did enjoy this book, but i'm sure it's not one of Pratchett's best. i don't know if it's my lack of feelings about Australia, or maybe the real life events that took place smack in the middle of my reading this, but it was a solid MEH from me. i felt like it wasn't as funny as other Discworld novels, but it also didn't seem to have anything serious to say, so i'm kind of left wondering what the point of it was.