Pyramids
The following post was written before I started this website, as such the notes consist of quotes and summary thoughts as I read the book. I’ve pulled the book club’s thoughts together at the top, along with the original score and the new tier ranking.
Final thoughts
A good book, the characters didn’t stick as hard but some wonderful glimpses at the assassins guild. camels are hilarious, and the armies were brilliant.
The score is (brace yourselves) 3 Ptaclusp IIa’s & 2 Ptaclusp IIb’s out of 5!
This is an A-tier Pterry book!
Favourite quotes
- What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: “Why is it so dark in here?”
- On Thursday a small war broke out between those who worshipped the Mother Goddess in her aspect of the Moon and those who worshipped her in her aspect of a huge fat woman with enormous buttocks.
- Bloat is extracted from the deep sea blowfish, Singularis minutia gigantica, which protects itself from enemies by inflating itself to many times its normal size. If taken by humans the effect is to make every cell in the body instantaneously try to swell some 2,000 times. This is invariably fatal, and very loud.
- Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.
- “I could give you this valuable knife,” he said. Krona gave it a passing glance, and sniffed. “Sorry, emir. No can do. No pay, no camel.” “I could give it to you point first,”
- a flame that might have turned any watchers not just into a pillar of salt but into a complete condiment set of their choice.
Thoughts during reading
- Ptaclusp Ila and Ilb… what a naming convention!!
- The lead up to the camel pay off
- Granny Pootle being suspicious of the embalmers is hilarious
- Both sides in the war are aggressively building wooden horses at each other – favourite part!
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