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A review by marindamisra
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
4.0
I honestly wasn’t crazy about reading this book, but it was the next one and I have trouble just saying no to a book whether I think it will be good for my brain or not. Not in the intellectual way, that would be my mind. I mean my brain- as in the risk of it turning into oatmeal.
You see, my atheist high school boy friend loved this book - because of the way that it supposedly made fun of religion and pointed out how stupid/evil it was.
The thing is, yeah, it does make fun of religion, and philosophy, and just belief in general - but what it doesn’t make fun of is someone trying to figure things out and being a good person just for the sake of being a good person. This book doesn’t actually say anything is wrong with believing, and that it can be a good thing as long as what you believe in isn’t your own perfection.
Though as a side note, I am grateful that my God isn’t like any of these gods, like, at all. Maybe that’s another reason I liked this book - this is a fantasy series and the gods and religions in this book are just that- fantasy with almost no grounding in reality.
In the end, I liked this book and yeah, I would recommend it.
If there wasn’t a God I would be an atheist, but there is, so I’m not.
You see, my atheist high school boy friend loved this book - because of the way that it supposedly made fun of religion and pointed out how stupid/evil it was.
The thing is, yeah, it does make fun of religion, and philosophy, and just belief in general - but what it doesn’t make fun of is someone trying to figure things out and being a good person just for the sake of being a good person. This book doesn’t actually say anything is wrong with believing, and that it can be a good thing as long as what you believe in isn’t your own perfection.
Though as a side note, I am grateful that my God isn’t like any of these gods, like, at all. Maybe that’s another reason I liked this book - this is a fantasy series and the gods and religions in this book are just that- fantasy with almost no grounding in reality.
In the end, I liked this book and yeah, I would recommend it.
If there wasn’t a God I would be an atheist, but there is, so I’m not.