Eric (by Terry Pratchett)

In slowly reading my way through the late Terry Pratchett’s excellent ‘Discworld’ series, I reached the ninth in the series, ‘Eric’. It’s a thinner book than most of the others, and one I had not read in a very long time. I vaguely recalled that I didn’t particularly enjoy it, but was determined to give it another chance.

The story is about a thirteen-year-old boy called Eric who is an amateur demonology hacker in the Discworld. He’s also evidently full of teenage hormones. He has been using...