I Read Books: Pyramids

Pyramids

Pratchett has a look at time and gods and kingship on the Discworld. Also the Assassin’s Guild. Teppic is prince of Djelibeybi, a fantasy comedy Egypt. Because they need the money he’s trained as an assassin, but he becomes king on the day he graduates. King is also god of course, and gods run on belief, and when he builds the biggest pyramid ever this may transform the kingdom and turn belief in on itself.

Which will puzzle even the comedy ancient philosophers in the neighbouring kingdom (who have been ready to fight a war with wooden horses for the last thousand years).

There’s a lot of good ingredients and a lot of good jokes. If I’m a little underwhelmed its because I don’t think it has awfully good characters and Pratchett comes back to both gods and time later and better. This feels something of a mish-mash, not quite coming together.

Read This: It’s very funny and the more you know about Ancient Egypt the more you appreciate the research
Don’t Read This: Jokes about maths, embalming and Ancient Egypt and Greece do nothing for you.