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Pyramids is the seventh book in the award-winning comic fantasy Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.In Pyramids, you'll discover the tale of Teppic, a student at the Assassin's Guild of Ankh-Morpok and prince of the tiny kingdom of Djelibeybi, thrust into the role of pharaoh after his father's sudden death. It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal-not to mention a headstrong handmaiden-at the heart of his realm. Sometimes being a god is no fun at all...… (more)
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While certainly amusing (the assassin’s final exam is particularly good), this isn’t one of Pratchett’s stronger stories. It’s disjointed and a lot of things happen that don’t advance the story- the gods becoming physical and apparently witless being one of the worst. The characters aren’t as vivid as in most Pratchett stories. Teppic and Ptraci are likable but not compelling. The best characters are the dead king and Dios, the power mad high priest who turns out to be motivated by good. But still, a not so great story by Terry Pratchett is better than a lot of some authors best stories, so it’s certainly worth the read.
I was disappointed to find that Teppic doesn't show up in any other novels as he really is a hoot to read about and You Bastard was an unexpected character I just had to love,
I'll never look at camels the same again.
Foolishly I’ve missed a few. This must change. I’ve just read the inimitable “Pyramids”, a romp through the Assassin’s guild, to a suspiciously
This one of the Discworld novels is so much fun. One to start with if you are uncertain if you’d like them (silly person), as it stands alone (though links).
Enjoy.
It turns out that in Discworld, Jim Croce would not have trapped time in a bottle, but in a pyramid. The shape of the pyramid and the cosmic ratios included in the construction of a proper pyramid end up bottling up time. Through the history of Teppic's kingdom, the pyramids built to provide a final resting place of the kings have ended up bottling just enough time to create a null-time zone inside the pyramids. So aside from the mummies being terribly bored, everything is fine until Teppic (under advise from his Grand Vizier) spec the construction of the largest pyramid ever built, which ends up doing all kinds of nasty things like shifting the kingdom into a right-angle dimension, loosing an entire mythos of gods and creating a time loop.
And being the King, it's up to Teppic to banish the gods, return the normal flow of time, free the mummies, save the girl, make the sun rise, avert a war, ride a camel and try not to die. It's good to be the king.
It is quickly shown that the pyramids in the area have mystical powers utilized for their creation, but when these get out of hand, some strange events begin to occur. It becomes Teppic's job to try and fix the city of Djelibeybi back to "normal."
This is a very fun Discworld novel and is a bit more offbeat than the rest. It stays fun and interesting and a bit of different perspective. There are some really fun puns and wordplay, alongside the normal great Pratchett humor and satire throughout.
Liked the way that it all came together in the end and the fact it was mostly set outside Ankh-Morpork.
As usual, the names were great - Ptraci and Autocue. ^_^
The ending was clever - kind
Despite the madcap, unpredictable quality of Pratchett's books, there is a sharply intelligent mind there and if you're not paying attention whole strings of references zoom by, never to be caught.