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	Amazon.ca: Eric: Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eric is a singularly inept sorcerer who conjures up an even more inept wizard, Rincewind, and a sentient (also treacherous, vindictive, and unruly) footlocker named, of course, the Luggage.
		The trouble with the novel Eric, is that it was originally printed as a graphic novel, with paragraphs accompanied with large illustrations by Josh Kirby, and as such made much more sense (and had a much lighter tone than a normal Discworld book did).
		Eric is a play on the Faust concept; you can tell because the word Faust is crossed out and replaced with Eric right there on the cover of the book.
	www.amazon.ca /Eric-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0575051914 (2008 words)

	Eric (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Left alone, Rincewind is disheartened to learn that the spells to confine the demon summoned are working on him; Eric's parrot tells him that because he was summoned as a demon, he is subject to the same terms.
		Eric's demands are renewed; when Rincewind protests that he can't just snap his fingers to give Eric what he wants, he is shocked to find that snapping his fingers does give a puff of smoke, and more so to find himself, Eric, luggage and the parrot floating over the Disc.
		Eric is disappointed to find that it has been a long siege, and Elenor is now a plump mother of several children, with the beginnings of a moustache, and that artistic licence had been taken in her description.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_(Discworld) (1314 words)

	Discworld II: PIB PC Game Review
		Discworld, you will have some idea of what to expect.
		The main voice are by Eric Idle (Rincewind), Nigel Planer, Kate Robbins and Rob Brydon.
		If you have played Discworld 1, you'll notice that the graphics have improved, the sound should be better (one of the noticable bugs on my machine is real problems with the sound), and generally the game play has improved.
	www.pibweb.com /review/dw2.html (943 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Eric: A Discworld Novel (Discworld Novel): Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eric, the protagonist, is a teenaged `demonologist' from Pseuodopolis.
		Eric is first seen trying to summon a demon in order to have the demon grant Eric's wish for power, women, and eternal life.
		Eric and Rincewind travel to the ends of time (actually the beginning of time among other places) and Rincewind faces adversity and the threat of death in his own inimitable fashion (feet don't fail me now).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Eric-Discworld-Novel/dp/1857989546 (1506 words)

	Review: Discworld 2
		Discworld books are extremely hard to classify--at first they might appear to be fantasy novels, but that's only a disguise.
		If you do know Discworld, however, you are aware of the fact that Rincewind is one of the least magical persons in existence and is only a wizard because he wears a pointy hat and a dress.
		Eric Idle makes Rincewind sound like the complete failure he is, always whining about something and prevailing in the end only due to some strange twist of fate.
	www.justadventure.com /reviews/Discworld_2/DW2.shtm (1126 words)

	Eric Idle's Post-Python Achievements quiz -- free game
		Eric's children story, "The Owl and the Pussycat," was based on the writings of:
		Which of Eric's works deals with the embalmed body of a dead Foreign Secretary still turning up for Cabinet meetings, a frustrated astronaut who's upset to remain in orbit while the others walk on the moon, and America deciding to invade France because the Vietnam War is losing public appeal?
		Eric's signature song, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life," turned out to be Monty Python's only hit, reaching n°3 in the UK charts and also topping Swiss and German ones.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=173481 (454 words)

	The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - Eric
		The subtitle to Eric ('Faust', crossed out) already indicates what story is being parodied in this novella: that of the German alchemist and demonologist Johannes (or Georg) Faust who sold his soul to the devil.
		Rincewind and Eric correspond to Vergil (who is Dante's guide to Hell) and Dante in the same way that they are Mephistopheles and Faust.
		Eric is thinking of king Sisyphus of Corinth, who betrayed Zeus to the father of the girl Aegina, whom Zeus had abducted (the girl, not the father).
	www.us.lspace.org /books/apf/eric.html (1868 words)

	Amazon.de: Eric (Discworld Novels (Paperback)): English Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not having got anything like what he bargained for, Eric is fated to go through the usual zany ordeals of a Pratchett protagonist, until he wishes he'd never been born.
		The boy Eric plays with his grandfather's demonology equipment trying to conjure a demon, but instead (for reasons to become clear later) a weird character named Rincewind appears.
		Eric's shining moment was when he told Rincewind he wanted to be a eunich when he grew up.
	www.amazon.de /Discworld-Novels-Paperback-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0380821214 (1053 words)

	Four Fat Chicks -- Discworld II: Missing Presumed ... !? Review
		Still, with talent like Terry Pratchett and Eric Idle listed in the opening credits, perhaps it's time to set preconceptions aside and let the masters of yakkity-yak have their say.
		Though Death arrives on schedule to whisk off the victim of the coming explosion, the bony one is inadvertently caught in the premature blast and propelled offscreen in a cloud of smoke and debris.
		This game is a prime example of how puzzle and story should each reinforce the other, and for that reason alone it serves as a precursor to and model of the way adventure games are being made today—simpler puzzles, more story.
	www.fourfatchicks.com /Reviews/Discworld_II/Discworld_II.shtml (2128 words)

	Amazon.com: Eric (Discworld, Book 9): Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eric was trying to summon a demon in order to have the demon grant Eric's wish for power, women, and eternal life.
		Eric is a teen-ager, with hormones on overdrive, so perhaps you can guess at least one of his wishes.
		Poor Eric is eventually disappointed in all of his wishes, but Rincewind's Luggage becomes a god--or at least is worshipped as one.
	www.amazon.com /Eric-Discworld-Book-Terry-Pratchett/dp/1857989546 (2372 words)

	DISCWorld Performance Analysis
		In contrast to the remote clients using RMI and DISCWorld, which were measured using a fast (100Mbps) network, the results of the remote retrieval from the DISCWorld cache are across a slow (10Mbps) network.
		As the DISCWorld daemon (and client program) are written in pure Java, we must rely on the mechanisms provided within the Java language specification [88] and the Java Runtime Environment [218] for robustness and fault tolerance.
		As implemented, the DISCWorld prototype has two major failings: the store fills very quickly, which causes the daemon to crash; and, if the daemon fails while parsing or executing a processing request, the request is forgotten when the daemon is restarted.
	www.dhpc.adelaide.edu.au /reports/057/html/node7.html (4610 words)

	Discworld: best adventure game series ever? - Feature - Adventure Classic Gaming - ACG - Adventure Games, Interactive ...
		Discworld is the creation of Pratchett, an English writer who nowadays lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire, England.
		The character Lewton in the Discworld Noir is similar to Vimes in Prachett’s books, as both are at a time hopeless alcoholics and worked as guards in the City Watch.
		Discworld Noir feels more true to Pratchett’s Discworld than the other games in the Discworld series, even though there are less familiar characters and locations.
	www.adventureclassicgaming.com /index.php/site/features/177 (2415 words)

	Discworld - Eric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage.
		With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he'd never been born.
		This is the shortest Discworld book so maybe that, coupled with the fact that the Rincewind books were at this point being spread out more helps to keep him interesting.
	www.angelfire.com /biz3/discworld/e.html (197 words)

	Eric (Discworld, Book 9) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.dartmouth.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Eric" may be the most straightforward rip-off/homage since it is a reworking of "Faust" (with 'Faust' crossed off each page heading and 'Eric' written next to it).
		When Eric, a thirteen-year-old demonology hacker, tries to conjure a demon to grant him three wishes, he is surprised to find he has conjured the inept wizard Rincewind.
		And while "Eric" has its fair share of demons, they are humorous rather than diabolical, which is something the plot could use a small shake of.
	www.freehosttalk.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ebooks/isbn0380821214.html (740 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 1996_01_16 - 'Discworld: The Trouble with Dragons,' Featuring Eric Idle
		Eric Idle, of Monty Python, provides audio narration and even voices the character of Rincewind as well.
		The Discworld books naturally lend themselves to gaming, certainly possessing a Pythonesque quality which is further augmented by Eric Idle in the game.
		It is said that the new game will feature Rincewind again, and Python fans can hope that Eric Idle will reprise his role as the voice of the hapless wizard once more.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/1996/llama022.html (405 words)

	Terry Pratchett, Eric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rincewind, for those not already steeped in Discworld lore, is one of Pratchett's many reoccurring characters, a tattered wizard whose best talent lies in the area of flight.
		Eric, Rincewind and the luggage pay a visit to a tribe of eagerly pious not-quite Aztecs, drop in on a not-quite Trojan War, witness the beginning of creation and the very first egg and cress (no mayo, sorry) sandwich, and tour a customer-friendly Hell.
		But, while most of the Discworld books can be read in any order, this one could use some exposition on a few things, particularly Rincewind and his monstrous packing case.
	www.rambles.net /pratchett_eric.html (224 words)

	Discworld II: Mortality Bytes!
		History: When I reviewed the first Discworld game based upon the Terry Pratchett series of bestselling novels, the role of Rincewind, the bungling apprentice wizard, was played by Eric Idle of the Monty Python comedy troop.
		Discworld is where the world is flat - as flat as a pizza, and the whole affair, mountains, oceans and all are held up by four elephants, each facing a compass heading, hold up on the world while standing on the back of a gigantic turtle.
		Voice actors: Eric Idle is Rincewind and he is also the voice of the theme song under the name Bone Idle.
	www.thecomputershow.com /computershow/reviews/discworld2.htm (1536 words)

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		Eric is a reasonably amusing Discworld book, and there's nothing spectacularly wrong with it, but it does suffer from one major drawback - it's short.
		In fact at about half the length of the average Discworld novel this is very lacking in depth, and feels more like a novella, or one of Pratchett's children's titles.
		The reason for this is that Eric was originally published as a large format illustrated book, in the same manner as Pratchett's later The Last Hero, but for some mysterious reason is now only available as a text only paperback.
	www.kingsnake.co.uk /books/bookdetail.php?ASIN=1857989546 (518 words)

	Terry Pratchett
		In this latest accessory to the Discworld phenomenon, Terry Pratchett joins forces with Bernard Pearson to produce the definitive Almanac to the Common Year, 2005 being the Year of the Incipient Goat, for the city of Ankh-Morpork and Surrounding Areas & Benefices.
		Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker, but the trouble is, he's not very good at it.
		The aim of "The Science of Discworld" is to use the comfortable but curious science of Discworld to illuminate the less comfortable science of our own world.
	www.framtak.com /books/terrypratchett2.html (237 words)

	The Discworld Compendium: the Books
		And then the gleam is seen as the glint in a giant eye and it is eclipsed by the blink of an eyelid and the darkness moves a flipper and Great A'Tuin, star turtle, swims onward through the void.
		The Discworld cycle is a creation of Terry Pratchett and is copyrighted by him (I'm using the names and all only to make people buy the books, honest!).
		It describes the Discworld (as if you couldn't guess), concentrating in most books on Ankh-Morpork, the Lancre kingdom in the Ramtop mountains and the country of Death.There are also one-book excursions to places like Klatch, Sto Helit, Tsort, the Counterweight continent and so on.
	www.extenuation.net /disc/books.html (3456 words)

	Book Review: Eric
		Eric is a teenage boy on Discworld who wants to summon a demon he can rule.
		Eric does not believe Rincewind is not a demon.
		In the meantime, the luggage is following Rincewind and Eric.
	www.jandysbooks.com /sfbooks/eric.html (159 words)

	Discworld: PIB PC Game Review
		The main voices are by Eric Idle (Rincewind), Tony Robinson (many of them), Jon Pertwee (many of them) and the occasional other voice.
		The characters are entertaining and very well played, as one would expect from such talent.
		Eric Idle once again does the voice of Rincewind, Nigel Planer does some of the other voices this time.
	www.pibweb.com /review/Disc.html (822 words)

	eBay - Book: Eric (ISBN: 0380821214) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To his vast surprise, Rincewind is up to the task, initiating a series of increasingly hazardous adventures which take them across the length of the Discworld, backward and forward in time, and finally, into the very depths of Hell itself.
		Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens.
		This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.
	product.ebay.com /Eric_ISBN_0380821214_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ1966213 (445 words)

	Eric - Terry Pratchett - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Eric is one of the earlier Discworld novels (8th in the sequence, in fact), and deals with the trials and tribulations of an adolescent Demonologist.
		For those uninitiated into the world of Discworld, it's Terry Pratchett's comedic fantasy fiction creation, inhabited by Wiazards, Witches, trolls, dwarves, zombies, and all manner of fantastical creatures.
		This being one of the earlier Discworld novels, Eric is on the short side (155 pages in the paperback edition), and is heavy on the irony but light on the satire.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/eric-terry-pratchett (341 words)

	Discworld (1995) (VG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A Secret Society of people have released a Dragon upon the city, and its up to Rincewind to take care of the problem, armed with nothing more than his wit and Luggage (a trunk with lots of little legs which follows you everywhere), You must solve a variety of Humorous problems.
		On Discworld, there are a variety of places to go, which include people to talk to, going from, The Drum Bar, Unseen University, Edge of the World and Town Square.
		The storyline is great, and if you read the books then this game is great for you, but even if you're new to Discworld, then this game has a great storyline to follow.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0199467 (466 words)

	Eric (Discworld, book 9) by Terry Pratchett
		Eric is fourteen, lives on the famed and magical Discworld, and is the first ever demonology hacker.
		Fortunately, he doesn't succeed in raising any devils, but he does raise Rincewind (the most incompetent wizard in the universe) and the Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory).
		When Eric turns them loose on an unprotected world, the idea is that Rincewind will grant him his three rather adolescent wishes.You know.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /p/terry-pratchett/eric.htm (157 words)

	Blog, Jvstin Style: Book Reviews 2005 (29-31) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The next in my quest to read the Discworld novels, Eric is a retelling of the Faust story, with some changes.
		A small enough diversion, while there are some nice bits in the book, I thought Eric was a step backwards from some of the better Discworld novels.
		Still, though, the book is a trifle truffle, and those who want to get to the meaty Discworld novels can safely skip the book without losing anything.
	www.skyseastone.net /jvstin/unjvst/004763.html (769 words)

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