Pyramids

Discworld #7

by Terry Pratchett

Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn’t too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems...

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Satire

341 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007 Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed three television programmes chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron of ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.

Reviews

[Annette]

Et veldig gøyalt konsept, selv om jeg ikke helt skjønte slutten

[Andreas]

Det varierer alltid hvor "dype" Discworldbøkene er og til tider kan Pratchetts historier bli veldig likt oppbygd, noe pyramids nok bærer preg av. Dette er defintivt ikke en av Pratchetts dypere fortellinger, sikkert fordi den er blant de tidligste bøkene hans, men mye morsom skriving og noen ganger er det nok.

[Bjørn-Tore]

Fantastisk galskap! forvirrende til tider, men likevel en fantastisk oplevelse!
Alikevel vil jeg si at det kan hende det ville vært enklere å lese den på engelsk da enkelte ord og utrykk sansynligvis ville vært lettere formulert enn den norske oversettelsen. itilleg virker det som det er en del vitser som oversetteren ikke har fått med seg når han oversatte. dette gjør at du får litt krampe her og der men det er greit.

[MagicThorn]

Merkelige ting skjer når pyramidene blir større og de fem dimensjonene lengde, høyde, bredde, dybde og tid roteres nitti grader - ikke minst sett fra et økonomisk perspektiv. Og kanskje er det nettopp når den religiøse troen blir ekte at det er vanskeligst å tro. Nok en helvill reise på disken - gleder meg til neste påfunn.

[Stian Elden]

Den minst «spesielle» Discworld boka så langt etter min mening. Det sagt så er den fortsatt artig og sjarmerende. Kul setting da!

(Og hele sekvensen med sfinksen var ganske artig da hehe.)

3,25/5

[Mikkel]

helt ok