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Small Gods: A Discworld Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
by Terry Pratchett

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567657.Small_Gods_A_Discworld_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Small Gods: A Discworld Novel (Mass Market Paperback)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871715m/567657.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567657.Small_Gods_A_Discworld_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Small Gods: A Discworld Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1654.Terry_Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11155425?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I discovered Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" books a few months ago, and have read about 8 of them so far.  Some are better than others.  Discworld is a place that exists on a disc (as you might've guessed) that rests on four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle swimming through space (which you probably wouldn't've guessed).  It's populated by a weird assortment of comic characters, various countries and cities, magic aplenty, all interwoven from book to book.  This one wasn't one of my favorites.  It featured a character I hadn't met before, Brutha the novice at a Citadel.  In Discworld, gods compete for people to believe in them, which is where they get their power.  One particular god (the god of this particular citadel) hasn't had any believers in a long time, and manifests to Brutha as a tortoise who had just been dropped from the sky by an eagle who was trying to split his shell on a rock so he could eat him.  Evil inquisitioner comes along, plotting to overtake a neighboring polytheisitc country, discovers Brutha has a photographic memory (though he is illiterate), and takes him along... and fortunately Brutha takes along the Great God Om (aka the tortoise).  I had a hard time getting into this book.  Pratchett's others contain characters like the Witches (Love Nanny Ogg!), the Watch (guards in the great city of Ankh-Morport), Death (OK, he does appear in this one, too), and generally a lot of folks I liked a lot more than I liked Brutha.  I'll stick with the Discworld books, but will pick and choose which ones.  All Discworld novels are not created equally.  Pratchett's writing style is quirky and humorous, and I enjoy his frequent "footnotes" on Discworld history, but it's not enough to compensate for a group of characters that just don't "click" with me.
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I discovered Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" books a few months ago, and have read about 8 of them so far. Some are better than others. Discworld is a place that exists on a disc (as you might've guessed) that rests on four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle swimming through space (which you probably wouldn't've guessed). It's populated by a weird assortment of comic characters, various countries and cities, magic aplenty, all interwoven from book to book. This one wasn't one of my favorites. It featured a character I hadn't met before, Brutha the novice at a Citadel. In Discworld, gods compete for people to believe in them, which is where they get their power. One particular god (the god of this particular citadel) hasn't had any believers in a long time, and manifests to Brutha as a tortoise who had just been dropped from the sky by an eagle who was trying to split his shell on a rock so he could eat him. Evil inquisitioner comes along, plotting to overt...more

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