Pyramids
| Property6 | Value |
|---|---|
| Author Name | Pratchett, Terry |
| Series | Discworld |
| Book Number | 7 |
| Summary | Teppic, king of Djelibeybi and trained assassin of Ankh Morpork, is struck with divinity when his father dies and must return to his ancestral home to take his place. |
| Recommendation | Recommended |
| Date Read | 2025-09-04 |
"There was not a lot that could be done to make Morpork a worse place. A direct hit by a meteor, for example, would count as gentrification."
I know know if I've ever read this book before, but I found it really quite charming. I feel like some of Pratchett's latent sexual urges have been run through in his earlier books, and and now we're threatened with (and saved from) a tangled family tree to make Alabama blush.
Anyway, thoroughly enjoyed it; fast paced, lots of good pun work (the name of the country to start, and then of course "Dil" the royal embalmer who pickles Pharaohs), a nice little cut at English prep school fiction with first and last days at the Assassin's guild.
Clever and interesting, a nice one-shot of a book.