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| Title | : | Small Gods (Discworld #13) |
| Author | : | Terry Pratchett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2005 by Corgi (first published May 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Fantasy. Comedy |
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Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Preferably one who won't ask too many questions...Identify Books Conducive To Small Gods (Discworld #13)
| Original Title: | Small Gods |
| ISBN: | 0552152978 (ISBN13: 9780552152976) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Discworld #13 |
| Characters: | The Librarian, Great God Om, Brutha, Exquisitor Vorbis, Didactylos, Simony, Urn |
| Setting: | Discworld Omnia Ephebe |
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Where does it begin? A simple question with complex answers, and they are all correct. Everything starts somewhere. For the monk, Lu Tze, History began before his time and his task was to preserve it, more or less. For the God, Om, power began with a shepherd but real power had to be rebuilt from ground up very closely from the ground. And for Brutha, the illiterate novice with the unquestioning belief? Questions began the day a tortoise appeared in the melon patch he was hoeing, but answers"It's not my fault if people misuse the--" "It is. It has to be! If you muck up people's minds just because you want them to believe in you, what they do is all your fault." Fun, fun, fun. I loved the premise of what happens to small gods; gods that either lose their followers or only had a few to begin with? Om is such a god with only one believer left. Ignominy and the dire consequences of losing one's last devotee leads to much elbow shoving and jockeying. But no tortoise had ever been a god,
I'm upping my ranking from a four to a five just because this tickled me much better the second time around. :)Re-read from about 15 years ago, and somehow more satisfying now than it was then. Why? Om... I don't know... :) Flying turtles kinda rock my world. This is a total Moses coming out of the desert kind of tale, only the GREAT GOD OM is a tiny turtle with only one believer and the kid is kinda hopeless, but a god's gotta do what a god's gotta do. Get Believers. On DISCWORLD.So yeah, it's
Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD series has been incredibly popular for many decades, starting from The Colour of Magic in 1983 all the way to installment #41 The Shepherd's Crown, published posthumously in 2015. Apparently he sold over 80 million copies in 37 languages over that span (thanks Wikipedia), so I hardly need to bring it to the attention of other readers. Rather, I'm a bit embarrassed that I am so incredibly late to the party. I actually remember getting the first few books in the series
Reseña en español en mi blog: Click aquí.Mis otras reseñas de Mundodisco en este enlace.One of the most satiric Discworld novels. Pratchett makes fun of the most retrograde aspects of religion (because who believes that the world is round when it's clearly a disc o top of a giant turtle?) in an extremely clever way.I don't think it is the ideal book to start reading Terry Pratchett though. The first half of the book is amazing and incredibly funny, but the second one was a bit slow for me
Part of the Pratchett reread with the SpecFic Buddy Reads group. Yet another in an absolutely golden run of Discworld novels (Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms ... the series never again has as many unreservedly brilliant books in a row).A small country on the Circle Sea, Omnia is a religious theocracy dedicated to the worship of the great god Om and the whole country is eagerly awaiting the appearance of the next Prophet of Om. Meanwhile, the real people in
Re-reading books from your childhood as an adult is always a bit risky. Sometimes the book holds up and its amazing, like somehow youve achieved time-travel - sometimes they dont and that just plain sucks. So when the lovely new hardbacks of the beloved Discworld series began appearing late last year, I picked up some books Id read a long time ago and subsequently forgotten all but a few scenes, characters and a line or two from. One of these was Small Gods which I remember liking but, having
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