Gollancz Pyramids: Discworld: The Gods Collection

Personally, one of my favourite Pratchett novels, that is funny in the first few minutes with the protagonist Teppic, who is an assassin, ending up tripping over the mass amount of gear that he had put upon himself. With many of the novels however, there can be times when some moments are hard to understand, (like what is a llb?), but was made hilarious again by calling a camel (who's a mathematician) YouBastard! Overall, both Pyramids and Small Gods are something to poke fun of religion at, especially with as much humour as Pratchett did. So, even with the four stars, I would rate this 8/10.

This is not Pratchett's finest hour. you can see why this is a standalone novel. You don't really get the sense that he had any affection for the characters he creates here, unlike in the other books he goes on to make sub series out of. In this book, comedy sits heavily next to discussions of philosophy, quantum mechanics and mathematics and it's a pretty clunky affair. His ideas about the nature of the Gods and belief are interesting and something he develops to much better effect later on in Small Gods. I'm glad there were no more books like this though.

I have all of Terry Pratchetts Discworld books and love them dearly. Tony Robinson has brought them to life as only he could,my wife has got me several of the audio books as presents. They go everywhere with me on my ipod and I find myself laughing again and again. It makes a stuffed train carriage much more bearable plus you can read the paper whilst listening to an absolute comic classic!!!! suddenly the latest government taxation doesn't feel so bad or whatever other joy the papers throw at us first thing in the morning :)

Once again Terry Pratchette takes you to the lives of the people in his very humurouse stories, thoroughly recommend his books if you want a laugh

This is the only Discworld novel that I hadn't read and it is just wonderful. I really love this cover and it's a design I much prefer however I think it's more suited to sitting on a shelf as there is a small tear on the spine of mine now and I'm a careful reader. I really should give this 4 stars due to that but it's Sir Pterry and a 4 star review just isn't going to happen.