The bickering faculty of Unseen University are always good value so half this book is great but the rather metaphysical mind frell of Rincewind's adventure through cliché Australia doesn't work nearly as well. It lacks focus with Rincewind running from place to place and vignette to vignette with no real cohesion to the how or why and he really could have done with a partner to bounce off as he's had in previous books. There are still a lot of laughs to be has and some great quotes in this one, basically anything involving the faculty arguing is gold (or glod) but there's just not enough holding the fever dream of the Rincewind parts together.