Pyramids by Terry Pratchett is a hilarious satire about ancient Egyptian mythology with some Greek satire thrown in as well. Young Teppic, the heir to the Djelibeybi desert kingdom, is sent off to be educated as an assassin because it is one of the professions that provide the most all round educati...
3.5 / 5As always, I will avoid going into describing the synopsis of the book, you can read that up there ^. Though, as is usual the case with Pratchett's books, the blurb won't really help you much. Instead, I will go straight into my review.Quick summary?: If you generally like Terry Pratchett's s...
The Discworld meets Ancient Egypt. And Geometry. Sort of.This is the first book in the chronological order of the series that I've give five stars to, and it just doesn't seem to get old no matter how many times I reread it.
A very funny rendition of ancient Egypt as seen through the Discworld. I loved the bits of pyramid lore, the skills needed for a successful assassin, and the greatest mathematician on the Discworld. For those who know their Egyptology and math, this is filled with little insights and some good jokes...
Djelibaby is a desert kingdom where they have a cultural obsession with pyramids. Pyramids are the one thing that they're reall good at, they've had 7000 years to perfect the technique. In the belief that he's doing the right thing, the new God-king Pteppic builds the largest pyramid ever for his fa...
The beginning was a little plodding, and on the whole, the book isn't as great as his later works. Reading this directly after Small Gods was probably ill-advised; it should've been the other way around, so I could've seen how Pratchett vastly improved in his writing. Slightly similar concept (the b...
I remember this book for one thing (mostly) - the flawlessly executed, yet ever-so-confusing, foray into complexities of time-travel and nature of causality... ... or having a hangover before drinking ;)
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