rincewind's Full Review: Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
Everybody I've asked loved Pyramids. Personally, I only liked the first part.
Pyramids tells the story of Teppic, an heir to the Djelian throne living in Ankh-Morpork where he is studying in the Guild of Assassins to learn the deadly service of inhuming. Shortly after the graduation exam, he learns of his father's death and is recalled back to Djelibeybi to take his place as the kingdom's ruler.
Now, Terry Pratchett is a good author, one of my favorites, and since Pyramids was written by him it should be immediately at least above average, and it is, no doubt.
However, it seems to me that the best bits of the book happened during the first third, while Teppic was still in Ankh-Morpork's Guild of Assassins. The rest, well, there's dozens of good jokes and whatnot, but for some reason I found the sand-and-pyramids setting of Djelibeybi just, well, boring.
Perhaps it's me. In fact, it probably is, considering nobody else agrees. Pyramids is a Terry Pratchett novel, and even the worse Pratchett novels are still good reads.
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