The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Small Gods is a standalone. He wants peace, justice and love-but that's hard to achieve in a world where religion means power, and corruption reigns supreme. So when the great god Om accidentally manifests himself as a lowly tortoise, stripped of all divine power, it’s clear he’s become less important than.

Everyone has their own opinion and their own gods, of every shape and size all fighting for faith, followers, and a place at the top. overthrow a huge and corrupt church, but what he really wants is for his god to choose someone else to do it. Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Enter Brutha, the Chosen One-or at least the only One available. Discworld 13: Small Gods - Terry Pratchett. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. So when the great god Om accidentally manifests himself as a lowly tortoise, stripped of all divine power, it's clear he's become less important than he realized. Small gods are a special classification of deity unique to the fictional Discworld universe created by author Terry Pratchett. Everyone has their own opinion and their own gods, of every shape and size-all fighting for faith, followers, and a place at the top. Gods exist in potentia in numbers uncountable, but the moment an event of any note occurs say, two snails happening to cross at a single point a god becomes tied to it and. Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Gods are everywhere on the Discworld, a crucial element of the world's peculiar ecology that gives power to belief and demands resolution to any and all narratives. Dit verslag is op 10 januari 2001 gepubliceerd op en gemaakt door. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. Boekverslag van het boek Small gods (Terry Pratchett) voor het vak engels. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle- Discworld -a land where the unexpected can be expected. Tolkien with a sharper, more satiric edge.' -Houston Chronicle The thirteenth novel in the Discworld series from New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. Pratchett's Discworld books are filled with humor and magic.' -Chicago Tribune 'Think J.R.R.

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