#pyramids discworld

[rincewinds-hat]

Finished reading Wyrd Sisters a couple of days ago. 9/10 great book. Took me a bit to realise it was just Macbeth (i never read Macbeth).

Anyway. Reading Pyramids atm wish me luck

[pratchettquotes]

Morpork was not a good address. Morpork was twinned with a tarpit. There was not a lot that could be done to make Morpork a worse place. A direct hit by a meteorite, for example, would count as gentrification.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

[gcballet]

Seriously why even care that JKR exists when Pterry wrote trans rights in 1989, in a fantasy kingdom which is otherwise chronically conservative and hasn't changed in 7000 years for plot reasons

[aeshnacyanea2000]

A camel in distress isn't a shy creature. It doesn't hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn't phone up old friends and sob at them. It doesn't mope, or write long soulful poems about Life and how dreadful it is when seen from a bedsitter. It doesn't know what angst is. All a camel has got is a pair of industrial-strength lungs and a voice like a herd of donkeys being chainsawed.

-- Terry Pratchett - Pyramids

[proceduralbob]

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

[deathdecayglitter]

Pyramids is a good book some of y'all just didn't have an Egyptian Mythology Phase

Anyways justice for Ptraci

[cessreads]

rereading discworld books in my 30s is even more delightful! I can’t believe we have 41 of them!

[monsterloverxxx]

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

Discworld memes!

[imperatorcaesaraugustus]

A Brief Book Review of: Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

i just finished reading Pyramids, the seventh novel in the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett.

for some time i have been working towards the goal of eventually reading every Discworld book (doing so mostly in order so as to ensure i do not miss any, as opposed to the very scattershot method in which i read them when i was younger). Pyramids was the next entry in that quest for me.

on account of this being a Discworld book, i am holding it to quite a high standard, one which i do think it occasionally fails to meet up to. the thing that rubbed me the wrong way throughout much of the book, especially the beginning, was the way it does base itself upon a very time-flattened pop-cultural understanding of ancient egypt as being One Thing throughout its existence (a notion that, to my eye, carries an undercurrent of orientalism).

that being said, the book did gradually win me over, and i was enjoying it quite a lot by the end. one of the things that stands out the most in hindsight is that it took quite a while for me to realize what the book was actually going to be about, as the story goes through plots about assassins in Ankh-Morpork (which i thoroughly enjoyed) and Pteppic's* frustrations with kingship (which was the part of the book i liked least) before really settling in to the Great Pyramid and its effects. Dios made for a compelling antagonist, at times both aggravating and imposing. and i thoroughly enjoyed the character of Ptraci*, most of all at the very end.

overall, i did enjoy the book and would recommend it, but if you were choosing between a different Discworld book and this one, i would probably recommend the other.

*edited for spelling, as i listened to the audiobook and would not have predicted in a million years they were spelled this way

[pratchettquotes]

And the sun toiled across the sky. Many people have wondered why. Some people think a giant dung beetle pushes it. As explanations go it lacks a certain technical edge, and has the added drawback that, as certain circumstances may reveal, it is possibly correct.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

[gcballet]

Everything that was magical was just a way of describing the world in words it couldn't ignore.

"Pyramids" (1989), Terry Pratchett

[aeshnacyanea2000]

It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don't normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along.

-- Terry Pratchett - Pyramids

[crimzonstudioz]

Something silly I made using the audiobook of discworld and scenes from the recent season of precure

[hagstoned]

Did I mishear the audiobook (because I expect this sort of thing from him) or did Terry, near the beginning of Pyramids, describe Djelibeybi as “soft centred” ???

[zakalwe-the-ninth]

"Ibid you already know."         -Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

For fuck's sake, Pterry.