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Small Gods

Terry Pratchett

4.28 AVERAGE

ma_parx's review

4.0

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

djbrazzy's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

soaringwren's review against another edition

2.25

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

losttheplot_90's review against another edition

4.0

funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

irltoad's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

abendik's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

pippa_w's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Don’t put your faith in gods. But you can believe in turtles.

Look, Terry Pratchett is an extraordinary author, and the Discworld series is an extraordinary series.

It’s witty, it’s existential, it’s built out to the nines, its characters are SO three-dimensional, its dialogue is so fun, and - added HUGE bonus - you feel safe with the perspectives Terry Pratchett had.

For all of these reasons, I wish his writing style and what he generally chose to write about was more for me. I know this about myself, and yet in returning to the series I even chose the one about religion??? A topic I already spent away all my interest in back in 2008???

The cameos from Death and Death of Rats were great, though, and welcome as always.

‘It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.’

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mosscreecher's review against another edition

5.0

funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

astopotro's review against another edition

3.75

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pantheon (HM): Terry Pratchett offers a funny and satirical commentary on religion with this book.
The MC is a poor apprentice of the great god Om, that has turned into a tortoise.
I enjoyed the book, I always love the social commentary Pratchett has to offer, but I found some parts of the book to be a slog and got sometimes bored. However, there are great parallelisms with current religions that makes the reader wonder about the importance of gods.

nyapoke's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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