Pyramids: A Discworld Novel: 7

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The side characters are all well formed. I loved Teppicymon when he was a ghost commenting how silly all the pyramid nonsense was.

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Mix-and-Match Critters: The plight of the Sphinx, being a mix up of human, lion and eagle will give a creature one hell of an identity crisis, and a perpetual bad mood. Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. Scheibenwelt / RM - 1. Auf. 2003 : Terry Pratchett - Hardcover - Namensstempel R2-ZVJ9-AFUF Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Yes-Man: Endos the Listener is a variant, his job is to act as if the person who is talking is the most interesting person in the world. Bait-and-Switch: Teppic's father tells an ancestor, recently freed from his pyramid, that he hates pyramids. The ancestor tells him that he does not, seeming to imply Teppic's father is obligated to be in favour of pyramids. He then clarifies that what he means is that what Teppic's father feels for pyramids is a mild dislike— if he hasn't been trapped in one of the damn things for a few thousand years, he can't know what it is to truly hate them! At a British public school/grammar school sports day, the pupil who overall won the most, was declared ‘Victor Ludorum’ – Latin for ‘Winner of the games.’ Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Ptraci tries to emulate an ancient queen who'd used this method to smuggle herself into her lover's chambers. When she's unrolled she finds there's nothing romantic about lint, dizziness, or being dumped out on the floor. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Rescue Romance: Subverted in the end, when Teppic and Ptraci find out they're half brother and sister. Ptraci still wants to go through with the romance, while Teppic — who spent much of his formative years in the more modern Ankh-Morpork — is thoroughly against it. Jerkass Has a Point: Dios is entirely correct when he tears a strip off Teppic for his ignorance when he innocently shook the hand of a stone-mason - there's a taboo on touching the royal person in Djelibeybi, meaning that the part that touched the monarch has to come off. When Teppic protests, horrified, that he's not going to sanction this, no matter how humane the process (complete with anaesthetic and a sharp blade), Dios points out that if it wasn't for the man's colleagues, he'd have removed it with a chisel. Teppic reluctantly concedes and instead ensures that the man has a job around the palace afterwards. Unfortunately he doesn't bank on his "conservative" Head Priest Dios, who lives his life by ritual and regularity and has no time for religion despite believing that Net was the Supreme God, oh as was Hast, Fon, Set, Bin, Sot, Dhek and Ptooie, as well as a host of others. The trouble was the kingdom was a slave to ritual and to a multitude of Gods for every occasion, with many duplicates.Boarding School: The first part is an extended parody of English school stories in general and Tom Brown's Schooldays in particular.

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I find this one of the funniest early works, showing that Pratchett trained his muscles enough and is coming closer and closer to ingenuity and unique telling talent. From now on, each book is a total must read, except of the later ones which turn dark and are sometimes so different that it may be difficult to find traces of Pratchetts´early, lighthearted, exceptionally funny, writing in them. And I don´t mean a bit sad or something, I mean depressingly and frustratingly showing the darkest sides of humankind in pictures ineradicable out of the readers´ mind. Or to phrase it another way, the Fate After Death for almost every single person who has been mummified in Djelibeybi. As a result of the rather convoluted belief system of the Djelibeybians, all of them are dead in the practical ways, but unable to pass on. Instead, they remain bound to their bodies, which are then methodically dismantled and sealed up in tombs for all eternity. This approaches And I Must Scream for one particularly-unfortunate mummy, whose sarcophagus lid was so well-secured that he couldn't get out.Counterfeit Cash: Played with. IIa discovers that the temporal nodes can duplicate money as well as people, the only problem being that the money eventually disappears. This doesn't stop him paying the workers with it- after all, he gives them the money, and what happens to it afterwards isn't his responsibility, is it?

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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.” Pyramids speaks to something of a bypass in Pratchett’s Discworld arrangement. The chief move makes put in the to this point new place that is known for Djelibeybi, situated in northern Klatch over the Circle Sea from Anhk-Morpork. This is a one of a kind domain of the Discworld, two miles wide and 150 miles in length. It is regularly alluded to as the Old Kingdom for a justifiable reason-it is very old, more than 7000 years of age truth be told. It is a betray arrive whose pharaohs are fixated on pyramid-building; other than bankrupting the nation, this fixation has additionally had the unanticipated outcome of keeping the nation immovably settled in previously. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Due to the Dead: As an Ancient Egypt analogue, giving the proper due requires rather a lot of effort. A handmaiden gets in trouble for not volunteering to accompany the king.Meaningful Name: "'The trouble with you, Ibid,' […], 'is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything.'" Este libro en cuestión pertenece a la saga de las “antiguas civilizaciones” sin embargo no tiene un enlace directo con otras de las sagas ni con el siguiente libro por lo que me dispuse a ello. La premisa no era mala, típico libro de Prachett, me dije a mi misma: conociéndote seguro que te ríes por alguna tontería. Ekman, Stefan. (2013) Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings. Wesleyan University Press, p. 125.