epub Þ ☆ Terry Pratchett
Ing 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 uestio The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray toWhat good is being a god when you're stuck in the body of a lowly tortoise and your only follower is an uneducated melon hoer?Yep it sucks to be OmNow imagine poor Brutha's disappointment One day he's uietly minding his melons the next he's on some wild adventure with a smart ass tortoise who insists he's a god even though THIS god is NOTHING like the prophets said he would be For one thing he doesn't have horns; for another this so called god can't even remember MEETING the prophets The Prophet HashimiNever met the manOh? Oh? So I suppose you didn't give him the Book of Creation then?What Book of Creation?You mean you don't know?NoThen who gave it to him?I don't know Perhaps he wrote it himselfWhoa A blasphemous god You don't meet one of those every dayThese little exchanges between Om and Brutha are priceless Opened my eyesmy eyeand I was a tortoiseWhy?How should I know? I don't know lied the tortoiseBut youyou're omnicognisant said BruthaThat doesn't mean I know everythingBrutha bit his lip Um Yes It doesI've always had a fondness for characters who are forced to hold conversations with entities that no one else can see Hilarity freuently ensues as everyone else assumes you're talking to yourself and therefore just a bit batty Does anyone besides me remember My Partner the Ghost?This is not Pratchett's funniest book but there's still a lot to love here Just about everyone and every thing is mocked and that's always good for us all I'll let Brutha have the final word You know I used to think I was stupid and then I met philosophersAmen Brother Brutha
Terry Pratchett ☆ Small Gods text
Small GodsMe 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 appear So this is book 13 in my continuing monthly saga of reading all the Discworld novels And what a good entry in the saga this wasAs an aside i am a little behind in my reading timetable as I was meant to finish this in January My challenge shows me ahead but that is only because I listened to a number of Agatha Christie dramatisations whilst my wife and I were decorating painting inside the houseAnyway back to Small Gods This is in someway slightly different to most of the other Discworld novels I have read so far in my humble opinion Most all ? of the previous reads have involved some sort of parody of Earth culture in some fashion or another This whilst all about religion which is of course a major part of Earth's culture doesn't really parody at all which may be a good thing 😊This book is based on the wonderful premiss that a God is view spoiler only as powerful omnipotent as the number of believers heshe has not followers but true believers Hmmm I wonder what that would do to Earth religions? So when a God that at one point was probably First or even Premier League football soccer sorry analogy falls on hard times in terms of believers in fact falls on SUCH hard times that he is only left with ONE believer tries to make a comeback well chaos ensues That is the normal Sir Terry Discworld chaos that ensues hide spoiler