'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.'
**
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse -- and indeed treasury -- is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. And particularly when your only visible means of support is a recently acquired qualification from the Guild of Assassins where running a kingdom and basic financial acumen were not prerequisites for course entry.
**
Review
"'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'" Guardian "'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'" Independent "'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatologically-minded and J.R.R. Tolkien on speed'" Daily Telegraph "'The best kind of parody - funny and smart and still a good story'" Mail on Sunday
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No. 7 in the Discworld opus: Teppic, a student assassin on Ankh-Morpork, must return home to claim the throne of Djelibaybi on his father's death. But High Priest, Dios, is running the show and manipulates Teppic into constructing a pyramid for his father. And the magic just keeps building up.
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'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.'
**
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse -- and indeed treasury -- is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. And particularly when your only visible means of support is a recently acquired qualification from the Guild of Assassins where running a kingdom and basic financial acumen were not prerequisites for course entry.
**
Review
"'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'" Guardian "'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'" Independent "'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatologically-minded and J.R.R. Tolkien on speed'" Daily Telegraph "'The best kind of parody - funny and smart and still a good story'" Mail on Sunday
From the Inside Flap
No. 7 in the Discworld opus: Teppic, a student assassin on Ankh-Morpork, must return home to claim the throne of Djelibaybi on his father's death. But High Priest, Dios, is running the show and manipulates Teppic into constructing a pyramid for his father. And the magic just keeps building up.