Pyramids
β Scribed by Pratchett, Terry
- Book ID
- 110465089
- Publisher
- Harper Collins, Inc.
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 281 KB
- Series
- Discworld 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780061807206
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. You're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel your grapes for you, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the sun rise and the corn grow, you keep dreaming about seven thin cows and seven fat cows* and, on top of everything else, the Great Pyramid has just exploded because of paracosmic instability.
And then you've got to deal with all these assassins, sphinxes, huge wooden horses, mad high priests, philosophers, sacred crocodiles,gods, marching mummies, jobbing pyramid builders and Hat, the Vulture-Headed God of Unexpected Guests.
And all you really wanted was the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
Definitely the funniest Discworld book since the last one.
*One of them playing a trombone.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
_Look after the deadβ, said the priests, βand the dead will look after you.β_ Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse β and indeed treasury β is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid
{ Sept 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 341 pages Published 1989 British Science Fiction Award for Novel (1989) Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead
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