Eric Terry Pratchett As usual when I have just finished listening to one of  Terry Pratchett 's  Discworld  books, I find myself trying to answer two questions: "Was there a plot? If so, what was it?" In the case of  Eric , the original cover provides a clue:    --  Eric  is a  Discworld  version of  Goethe 's  Faust . And yeah, now that you point it out, I do kind of see the resemblance. But that's not what  Eric  is about really. To understand the purpose of  Eric , you need to go back to  Sourcery . In  Sourcery  the Discworld faced a grave danger from a Sourcerer, an immensely powerful Wizard. The Discworld was saved when Rincewind, the Discworld's most underperforming wizard, in an act of uncharacteristic self-sacrifice and courage, clobbered parts of the trouble with a sock full of sand. For his trouble he was banished to the Demon Dimension, which is the place (using the word loosely) in the...