Saturday, December 18, 2010

Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

I'm pretty sure that Small Gods was the first Terry Pratchett book I ever read; I can't remember what led me to pick it up, but at the time (it was either grade 5 or 6) I was in the habit of scouring the 'best sellers' shelf at the Pines library - a habit that also led me to David Eddings and Donald E Westlake at around the same time - and I do remember being intrigued by the cover and by the irreverent blurb. Anyway, I read it, and that was the beginning - I didn't look back. These days, like most of his books, I basically know Small Gods inside out, so reading it doesn't carry any of the charge or fizz of excitement that that first run of reads brought with it, but, like an old friend, its company never palls either.