"Terry Pratchett believed in us" is one of the most life affirming things I've ever heard. Thank you
@CBG232x54 жыл бұрын
May needed to have listen to this after stumbling down the rabbit hole of old videos. Thank you.
@samvimes1173 жыл бұрын
He wanted us to be the place where the fallen angel meets the rising ape
@samvimes1173 жыл бұрын
And despite everything that happened to us ain 2020 I still believe in us too or at least I'm trying my best to
@ellentheeducator3 жыл бұрын
Yep, I didn't expect to cry watching a video about one of my favourite books, but I did
@steffenbendel60313 жыл бұрын
Well, I think we also believe in Terry Pratchett.
@reginal.8984 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favourite Discworld novels. One of my favourite quotes (among many others): ‘Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.’
@StealthMarmot_4 жыл бұрын
Pratchett's affection for people as a whole is mirrored in his affection for Ankh-Morpork. He portrays Ankh-Morpork as corrupt, full of inefficiencies and a lot of stupidity built on faulty logic and bad tradition, polluted and unfair, constantly filled with mobs and constantly having to fix the terrible mistakes it has made. And he loves it. He loves and adores it and would never wish it gone. Because there is so much to love inside of it as well. Because DESPITE all of those troubles, there is goodness, and decency, and life, and humor and silliness and songs and adventures. Just like humanity. Pratchett embraced humanity with its flaws and loved it all the more. He taught us to accept those things and keep going because sometimes, we get the opportunity to change them for the better. Not always, but sometimes. If you keep your head up. And if everyone would live for those chances, the world would get better bit by bit. Never perfect for sure, but better.
@doubleg2814 жыл бұрын
Well said
@WhammeWhamme3 жыл бұрын
He also showed us how Ankh Morpork was getting better. And had gotten better. One novel at a time.
@nacmegfeegle23103 жыл бұрын
SO well said.
@jaroslavb.korinek72852 жыл бұрын
tbh any sociology class without mentioning STP is a wasted time.
@robertmcgovern88504 жыл бұрын
"Thou shalt not expose thy God to market forces!" Om: "You want a *constitutional* religion?" Brutha: "Why not? The other sort hasn't worked." Most terrifying to me is Om's description of Vorbis' mind as a smooth steel ball -- nothing gets in or out, there's nothing to get ahold of. This world lost a true humanist in Terry Pratchett. A gentleman, and a gentle man. He understood our weaknesses, and he forgave us them.
@Summersong22623 жыл бұрын
But much like Vorbis, he helped shape others into people a little bit closer to himself. He has gone, but we remain, influenced, taught, and sheparded by his work.
@dominictemple3 жыл бұрын
"Yes, but I'm me" is one of Pterry's great lines, but then again, he's had hundreds of great lines.
@forester28453 жыл бұрын
I shed a tear when I read that part, it sums up Brutha's life so well.
@Kingkent12074 жыл бұрын
I disagree that Brutha doesn't change over the course of the novel. I think he changes quite a lot. You could still call him fundamentally good at both the beginning and the end of the novel, but for very different reasons. In beginning he has perfect unquestioning faith in Om or more accurately Omnianism. But after learning that the Great and Powerful Om is just a person and that his superiors are not necessarily even good people, he learns to do good in spite of what people and his god tell him to do, rather because of it. In the end he challenges Om's authority and even, to Om's great annoyance, allows other gods to be worshiped in Omnia. He's still loyal to Om, but it's the loyalty you have to a friend and colleague rather than unquestioning faith in a God. He learns to value and put his faith in people rather than in authority, and that transition is one of my favorite things about this book.
@kecenavrtep4 жыл бұрын
“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
@robpegler65453 жыл бұрын
“Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.” ~ Terry Pratchett, "The Wee Free Men."
@fenster6664 жыл бұрын
Absolutely my favourite Discworld novel and probably my one of the best explorations of faith I have ever read. GNU Terry Pratchett.
@RillianGrant4 жыл бұрын
GNU?
@fenster6664 жыл бұрын
@@RillianGrant It comes from the novel Going Postal. I'm shit at describing things so I've copied this from reddit comment. Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called “the clacks”. When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called “GNU John Dearheart” to echo his name up and down the lines. “G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. (This was also a realworld tech joke: GNU is a free operating system, and its name stands, with recursive geek humour, for “GNU’s not Unix”.) The code causes Dearheart’s name to be repeated indefinitely throughout the system, because: “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” Basically it's a way to keep Terry's name living on forever.
@reginal.8984 жыл бұрын
@@fenster666 Chris, my dude, truer words have never been spoken. Let's keep Sir Terry's name alive! GNU Terry Pratchett.
@MrFlashpoint19783 жыл бұрын
GNU
@miriam38484 жыл бұрын
I still can’t get over the fact that there will never ever be a new Terry Pratchett book... I feel this little empty corner in my soul every time I enter a bookshop
@andreagriffiths35123 жыл бұрын
I used to get the new book every Christmas. Christmas has been reduced to being merely another day, a hollow emptiness. RIP Sir Terry
@bjw48593 жыл бұрын
Think of it this way, in an alternate dimension, possibly where people take L Space seriously, the big man still lives & writes, Lady Di has just celebrated her 60th birthday, Heath Ledger welcomed his 2nd grand child into the world, a little girl called Charlotte, & some orange git who failed to become leader of his country, has failed in his 15 bid to make the apprentice into a major motion picture, it could be so if his name is still spoken ?.
@simonsimon3252 жыл бұрын
I know. When he left us he took a whole universe with him. I still think of the Disc and all its characters as ongoing, but Terry isn't here to tell us about it anymore. It's a great loss.
@theamazingbatboy3 жыл бұрын
Aww, every time I see something about Terry Pratchett I get a little wistful. The only celebrity passing where I truly felt I'd lost a friend. Up there with Bowie for great people of our time imo
@BanjoNoob23 жыл бұрын
I'm normally a pretty stoic guy but this video and thinking about Sir Terry has me all weepy.
@brettbaxter78823 жыл бұрын
Then Granny said: "It's no good you trying to make me believe in Om, though." "Om forbid that I should try, Mistress Weatherwax. I haven't even given you a pamphlet, have I?" "No, but you're trying to make me think, 'Oo, what a nice young man, his god must be something special if nice young men like him helps old ladies like me,' aren't you." "No." "Really? Well, it's not working. People you can believe in, sometimes, but not gods. And I'll tell you this, Mister Oats..." He sighed. "Yes?" She turned and to face him, suddenly alive. "It'd be as well for you if I didn't believe," she said, prodding him with a sharp finger. "This Om ... anyone seen him?" "It is said that three thousand people witnessed his manifestation at the Great Temple when he made the Covenant with the prophet Brutha and saved him from death by torture on the iron turtle --" "But I bet that now they're arguing about what they actually saw, eh?" "Well, indeed, yes, there are many opinions --" "Right. Right. That's people for you. Now if I'd seen him, really there, really alive, it'd be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched 'em like a father and cared for 'em like a mother ... well, you wouldn't catch me sayin' things like 'there are two sides to every question' and 'we must respect other people's beliefs.' You wouldn't find me just being gen'rally nice in the hope that it'd all turn out right in the end, not if that flame was burning in me like an unforgivin' sword. And I did say burnin', Mister Oats, 'cos that's what it'd be. You say that you people don't burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrificin' your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, working' for it, breathin' the soul of it. That's religion. Anything else is just ... is just bein' nice. And a way of keepin' in touch with the neighbors."
@thehorriblebright4 жыл бұрын
I just finished binging all 41 books as audiobooks in the span of a few weeks. Damn I wish the world still had Terry Pratchett in it.
@dogwalker6664 жыл бұрын
The Tony Robinson audio books are the best.
@ruigen80463 жыл бұрын
and you favorite was?
@thehorriblebright3 жыл бұрын
@@ruigen8046 That's the question isn't it? I couldn't possibly chose one. I think I like the watch books the best overall, with the Tiffany Aching books at a close second.
@ruigen80463 жыл бұрын
@@thehorriblebright I like Rincewind and the luggage. But, The Watch stuff is so good. I think that Death is also one of my favorites - I like the way he is described, so different from any other portrayal. Genius.
@TheSuzberry3 жыл бұрын
We have his books. He left us something to enjoy and hopefully make us think.
@baronchatdelamort35223 жыл бұрын
Granny Weatherwax said that the only sin is treating people as things... this is my moral philosophy now...
@simonsimon3252 жыл бұрын
That's the essence of psychopathy isn't it. Imagine how it must be for them. No shame, no guilt. You don't worry about what a lamp thinks of you. You don't feel guilty about breaking up an old bit of furniture and throwing it on a fire. This is how pshycopathic people must feel about society. Must be incredibly liberating in a diabolical way.
@jarrakul4 жыл бұрын
"Terry Pratchett believed in us" well now I'm crying. And reaching for my still-unfinished copy of Maskerade.
@kecenavrtep4 жыл бұрын
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly - this and "place where the falling angel meets the rising ape" are my most favorit quotes. I hope humanity is that tortoise and ape.
@jarrakul4 жыл бұрын
@@kecenavrtep Death's whole falling angel/rising ape thing is probably my favorite exchange in all of fiction. It's just so beautifully humanist in all the best ways.
@kecenavrtep4 жыл бұрын
@@jarrakul 1)Sorry for my English 2)My most favorite part of Terry Pratchett universe, is that Death is our (humanity) greatest friend. He trully cares about us. He is telling us - Iam here and i will always be there. But do not be affraid of me. Just enjoy every moment of your life and when pain comes, i will help you and you will start a new journey.
@jarrakul4 жыл бұрын
@@kecenavrtep No need to apologize for your English. It's quite good. As for Death, I absolutely agree. "What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?"
@HelenaHermione4 жыл бұрын
And I haven't read Raising Steam yet, the last one of the Discworld books, not including Tiffany Aching, that I haven't read yet. I'm going to soon, though.
@torbjornlekberg77564 жыл бұрын
Every time I see my favorite author shown like this, it makes me smile. i dont quite get why there is not more about him on the net. He was the second best selling writer from the UK, after all.
@nacmegfeegle23103 жыл бұрын
My theory is that in today's world most people (Western) just don't get it. They are tuned in to a noisy pop culture frequency and his voice just does not translate to something they can assimilate. My whole life I feel like a misfit because I am constantly baffled about what the majority thinks is worthy of their attention; crappy TV shows, food, music, book, etc.
@torbjornlekberg77563 жыл бұрын
@@nacmegfeegle2310 I see what you mean. It depends on the people around you, tho. For the same reason I felt myself resonate quite well with most of my study buddies at university.
@doctorstrangepants67063 жыл бұрын
"But... I'm me." This book, more than any other, has helped to shape the way I think about myself, other people, how we grow as people (or don't, as the case may be), and what it means to be "good". It helped me come to terms with the tyranny and hypocrisy of the religion that shaped my childhood. What we do, how we treat other people, and who we choose to be. Those are the things that matter. Those are the things that last. These are how we make our own reason for existence.
@tbotalpha81334 жыл бұрын
This book, and Mightily Oats' arc in Carpe Jugulum, may have legitimately saved my life.
@InsaneProf3 жыл бұрын
Terry's books are my go to read when I'm having a bad day, a couple of pages in & the grin spreads from ear to ear. I love how his characters are developed over the course of various series of books - my favourite character being Corporal Cedric Wormsborough St. John "Nobby" Nobbs, who seems to be Fred Colon's conscience. I love how he won't do certain things because "Vimes would go spare". He's a coward & a thief but his heart's in the right place - almost Baldrick at times.
@Lorddacenshadowind3 жыл бұрын
There are far too many characters for me to simply pick one lol The chancellor, vetinari, vines, captian carrot, nanny ogg, granny weatherwax, moist von liptwig, detritus and sooooo many more lol
@csgollum4 жыл бұрын
I felt like Twoflower when I read my first Pratchett. As with all the other books, many pages in 'Small Gods' made my hair stand on end and there was certainly some watering of the brain area which tended to overflow a bit, in spite of the smile as I read the last page. Thank you, Jill!
@calladeem2403 жыл бұрын
Great review, Pratchett is easily my favorite author and Discworld is my favorite escape to fantasy! GNU Terry Pratchett
@Atriviality3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure "Brutha" is pronounced like "Brother" based on the joke from the book where Vorbis says he will need to promote Brutha because calling him "Brother Brutha" would be confusing.
@johns96522 жыл бұрын
Mostly unrelated, but I grew up next to neighbors whose toddler girl could not yet pronounce "brother". That poor boy got saddled with the nickname "Bubber" for over a decade, maybe till he graduated highschool, I don't know, I moved away and joined the military.
@simonsimon3252 жыл бұрын
It is. It's how brother is pronounced with a northern accent. Nigel Planer gets this and does Brutha as a northerner in the audio version for that very reason. Brutha is the humble equivalent of Bishop Bishop or Pope Pope. He's both religious and humble by name and nature. The pun/concept doesn't work if you pronounce it any other way.
@craigreardon39144 жыл бұрын
Well now I’m gonna stop crying and re-read this book. Again.
@nanajiloh4 жыл бұрын
A Discworld review video? Finally something good in 2020.
@ericthompson39823 жыл бұрын
"What's that?" "It's a spanner." "What's it for?" "It's for twisting nuts."
@chibiktsn37 жыл бұрын
Still one of my favorite Discworld novels.
@WhichDoctor12 жыл бұрын
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” from I Shall Wear Midnight. Its one of the main themes running through the entire Discworld series, and something that sank into my brain like a lead plumb bob into jelly while growing up being read these books by my parents, and listening to them over and over again on audiobook, from a young age. As a 30 something adult, I still find it a pretty solid foundation for morality
@darthplagueis134 ай бұрын
Pretty sure that quote predates I Shall Wear Midnight. I believe it's from Carpe Jugulum.
@dominuspopuli3 жыл бұрын
"Let there be lettuce! Let there be slices of melon!" One of the few authors where I've re-read the books. May Sir Terry rest in peace.
@sataprescott75884 жыл бұрын
Just finished reading Small Gods to my husband, and found your channel via this video being recommended. Lovely summary, and some perfectly accurate insights.
@tomireland47403 жыл бұрын
I recently got recommended your channel by a friend for the brilliant stage-fight analysis, and I've been loving those. I'm really glad that youtube suggested this video to me just now though. I haven't read this book in an age, but I love it and other Pratchett books for exactly the kind of cynical hopefullness you express so well here. Been some rough times for a while, and this has genuinely helped me feel a bit less anxious, and a bit more hopeful. Thank you, it means a lot.
@covenawhite48554 жыл бұрын
I like how they satire religion while recognising how important religion to believer. It shows how religion affects culture, art, and morality. It also shows how believers have an important relationship with God. How it brings them hope, order their world view, and how it makes people act.
@washellwash18023 жыл бұрын
It's more a satire of religious institutions while retaining full respect for religion itself.
@biseinerheult783 жыл бұрын
It's hard to say, but reading Discworld never gave me the feeling that Pratchett was full of respect for religion itself. In the Discworld gods are of course real, but Pratchett has little sympathy for the pantheon he created and he very empathically does not hold up religion as a source of ethics in his books. It is very clear that gods are made by humans and the heroes of his stories , while not denying the gods existence, usually have little time or respect for them.
@blatherskitenoir5 жыл бұрын
"betortoised"
@celeritas2-8105 жыл бұрын
Oh I know right
@jenniferschmitzer2994 жыл бұрын
Nuthink wrong wiv that
@1965anthony3 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite things are the omnians. In this book, Pratchett creates a church just to be corrupt and inflexible. But, he never falls into the trap of lumping the religion and the religious together. By this, I mean that most of the omnian characters in the other books are good people. A good example of this is the witch book 'A Hat Full of Sky'. here, a young witch learns that her mentor, Granny Weatherwax, is bringing an omnian priest to meet her. She is horrified! How can a witch even talk to a witch-burner? And so she learns that who people are is more important that what people are. Without even knowing that she needed to learn this.
@Valandar23 жыл бұрын
What I love about Discworld is how, if you look at it from a distance, there's no way a truly good man could survive, let alone get ahead, especially in Ankh-Morpork. But the people who actually THRIVE, are some of the best human beings. Carrot Ironfoundersson, Brotha, Vimes, and more. Even Vetinari might be a corrupt human, but one who aims his corruption at improving the lives of the city he serves (and he honestly sees himself as SERVING Ankh-Morpork, not the other way around). Even cowardly Rincewind overcomes his fear to do the right thing, even if "the right thing" is slipping half a brick into a sock to take out a Sourcerer preparing to bring about the Apocralypse.
@ralphgibson36963 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video, and I can't believe I didn't locate your channel sooner. I've been a Sir Terry Pratchett fan, ever since I received Equal Rites from the Science Fiction Book Club, because I forgot to send back the bingo card. I enjoyed the book so much I ordered The Colour of Magic, and The Light Fantastic right away. And have purchased every Discworld book published after the first three. I was very saddened by his passing, and purchased The Shepherd's Crown, published shortly after his death. And my sister has promised to return it soon. Looking forward to the rest of your work. Thanks for bringing his amazing work out to new, and old, fans. Cheers, Ralph
@hoopymcgee70834 жыл бұрын
This is my very favorite of the Discworld books. It inspired a major arc of my D&D campaign, which was a blast.
@captnwebb46693 жыл бұрын
Never seen anyone do a video about my all time favourite Pratchett book before. You have my respect and subscription ;)
@garycort79973 жыл бұрын
This book is like an onion, plenty of layers. Stands up to reread to view things from the prism of where the reader is then versus before. Nicely reviewed.
@lloroshastar63476 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you liked Small Gods, after seeing your face in the thumbnail I was worried you might not be so keen. I'll bear that in mind for future thumbnails.
@TheSuzberry3 жыл бұрын
I’m enormously grateful that this wonderful video came up on my YT recommendations. I’ve been a subscriber to your channel for months and have been working through the older videos. I’ll be working faster - after I’ve watched this a few more times.
@dodgyvideo4 жыл бұрын
You are delightful, and, yes pTerry believed in us. I met him a few times. Such a smart and funny man.
@FemkevanDrooge3 жыл бұрын
I just discovered this channel because of your boob armor video's and I've been a huge fan of Terry Pratchett for two decades. I absolutely love this review of Small Gods, very touching ❤️
@HugSeal423 жыл бұрын
Easily one of my favourite Pratchett books.
@davidioanhedges2 жыл бұрын
The most profound thing ever written : “There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is. “It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .” “But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ”
@umjackd4 жыл бұрын
My favourite Discworld book to introduce people to the series. That and Wee Free Men.
@AAARRRGGGHHHHHH4 жыл бұрын
Too right! My first three books were Wee Free Men, Going Postal, and Small Gods.
@KaiTenSatsuma4 жыл бұрын
"Vetinari if Vetinari had no conscience" Wait, Vetinari has a conscience?
@tbotalpha81334 жыл бұрын
Vetinari believes that the world is an awful, awful place. And it is humanity's duty to be better than all that.
@saskiadavies1113 жыл бұрын
Of a kind, yes. He puts people who are good at specific things into positions where they can do those specific things really well and on a larger scale. He likes things running efficiently and "things" includes a populace who are easier to manage if kept productive and under the impression that it was their own idea to do so.
@jameshart26223 жыл бұрын
Oh yes. Very much so. He's also brilliant; he hides a truly ridiculous amount of social reform, technological progress and general betterment behind a veil of self-interest and "tyranny".
@saskiadavies1113 жыл бұрын
That is all true.
@rayharley5972 жыл бұрын
Brutha is one of three Discworld characters that I want to grow up to be; others are Sam Vimes and Nanny Ogg. Met Terry Pratchett twice; he was one of the best people I've ever known. kerk
@talonsaurn57643 жыл бұрын
As I've gotten older I've appreciated Small Gods more and more, especially end ending in the afterlife, just the perfect way to end
@ketharnathsambamoorthy90624 жыл бұрын
With the present pandemic sweeping the world, it's a great pleasure to escape into the fantasy world of Terry Pratchett. May the Great A'tiun take care of him in some other disc world.
@lillianb87623 жыл бұрын
I don't know how the algorithm realized I wanted to watch your video from almost four years ago, but I really wanted to watch this and I'll admit I got a bit weepy.
@thecocktailian20913 жыл бұрын
Night Watch remains my favorite, Small Gods is next. I rather think it was his most understated book,
@nathsami4 жыл бұрын
Brutha = carrots long lost brother for sho. Thanks for the review of one of my fave Pratchett books. (Second after Pyramids)
@ariaflame-au2 жыл бұрын
Difficult because they lived centuries apart
@hawkbox2 жыл бұрын
@@ariaflame-au Just extremely long lost.
@BOABModels3 жыл бұрын
I've not read Pratchett in too long!
@cDayz3 жыл бұрын
I've just finished the Small Gods novel 3:43 for the umpteenth time. I also have the Mort novel somewhere as well. I'm now reading Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, it's surprisingly better than I thought it was going to be.
@davidmidknight67853 жыл бұрын
Great review, love your sence of humor. Keep up the wonderful work
@2opler3 жыл бұрын
I miss him so much.
@Halbared4 жыл бұрын
Quite possibly the best intro to the Disc.
@vilstef6988 Жыл бұрын
On my shortlist of favorite disc world books.
@TorridPrime2177 жыл бұрын
Kunal Nayyar as Brutha [think specifically Raj] Ben Kingsley as Vorbis Christopher Lloyd as the void of Om Sir Anthony Hopkins as Didactylos Arthur Darvill as Urn
@zvimur6 жыл бұрын
Didactylos, well, a year ago I would vote John Hurt, now maybe Derek Jacobi.
@zappawoman51835 жыл бұрын
Agree to that with one exception: Didactylus - Brian Blessed.
@alanbarnett7184 жыл бұрын
Yesyesyes! Good Gods, you've really thought about this, haven't you!
@jenniferschmitzer2994 жыл бұрын
Alan Barnett oh ye gods I can see it now. As long as theres no budget and in a community theatre that hasn’t been updated since the early 90s.
@jessicajayes83263 жыл бұрын
I would have cast Taika Watiki as Om and Vorbis has to be a little younger. By the way, James Hong as Lu Tze would be awesome. Maybe Michael Gambon voicing Death.
@houdin654jeff2 жыл бұрын
The first Pratchett book I read, still one of my favorites, not only of his work but novels in general. His work is not well suited to adaption generally, it works so well as a book, but I'd love for a short series about this novel ending with Brutha reaching out to help Vorbis up only to pause for Death to remind him of who Vorbis was in life... only to have Brutha acknowledge it and still try to help the man who ordered him tortured and killed while the music swells and a black cloaked figure leaning on his scythe watches them recede into the desert...
@garypatterson28573 жыл бұрын
A solid review of a great book. Lots of people see Terry Pratchett books and think "Fantasy! That's for children." and tragically for them, they miss the essential truth that novels - good novels - are about people and the setting is less relevant than how the people are written. Pratchett wrote them as fantasy, but many of them could have easily been written as modern day novels, or historical fiction novels and been just as good, more widely read but less fun. I hate labelling people but Pratchett was a compassionate humanist and almost all of his major characters are about becoming better people (except maybe Rincewind, who's too terrified to change). Even Vetinari improves as a person throughout the Watch series (but maybe he was always a better person and was more able to show it through the foil of Vimes). Look at comments by people who knew him (Neil Gaiman for one) and you may see an anger driving him, but that was always at the structures we surround ourselves with, not the people we are and can be. Small Gods is a book I've read many times. I'll read it again soon. It's from an author I was lucky enough to come across during my formative years, and my belief in the essential nature of people is all the better for that. Terry Pratchett was a lovely man and I was lucky enough to meet him once in Tasmania, back in '90? (on his Good Omens book tour) and his patience with irritating uni students like me was, on reflection, astounding. Thanks for the review Ms. Bearup, I really enjoyed it and you've reminded me that I've neglected some re-reading.
@benmcelwain53013 жыл бұрын
Small Gods was my first Discworld book.
@andrewsearle91533 жыл бұрын
Birtha? Bertha? Brutha! Everything else was fabulous.
@fiercerodent3 жыл бұрын
Everything, except that Vetinary would be a bit surprised to hear about this conscience he's supposed to have,
@darthplagueis134 ай бұрын
@@fiercerodent He might express surprise, but he wouldn't genuinely be surprised. He knows he's got a conscience. At most, he'd be surprised that someone would realize it, since he prefers to style himself as a tyrant.
@teachmycat2read2 жыл бұрын
Loved this video! We read Small Gods in series 1 of the podcast and really enjoyed it!
@dogwalker6664 жыл бұрын
Met Mr Pratchett at a book signing once he seemd to be a very nice guy.
@thetalantonx4 жыл бұрын
Same, he was an amazing man.
@goonerhill5 жыл бұрын
I loved the book. And i loved this review.
@nbell634 жыл бұрын
whispers, "(De Chelonian Mobile)."
@TheInnerParty5 жыл бұрын
1:25 is a life lesson I'm about a third way through your older vids (since I recently discovered you). I'm read a lot, but mostly non-fiction (all that pesky science). I read my first novels in decades this year. A song of ice and fire. Would just love to see and hear your special perspective on those! (disclaimer: not talking about the show which became nothing but hollywood's "boobs and dragons").
@qwertyTRiG5 жыл бұрын
You made me cry.
@Call-me-Al4 жыл бұрын
Same
@therealmerryjest4 жыл бұрын
The Turtle Moves!
@fatboy7609 Жыл бұрын
I think the scary thing about this novel is how it acknowledges Vorbis's great ability to change people.
@A._is_for3 жыл бұрын
Your analysis made me misty eyed. GNU STP
@tarnishedknight99092 жыл бұрын
"Oh me" is still one of the funnest things I have ever read
@vilstef6988 Жыл бұрын
Brutha is pretty much goodness personified. If a god can be loving and humane, they need a few people with Brutha's qualities.
@dugswank4 жыл бұрын
I am convinced that Small Gods is the best entryway into Discworld .
@dogwalker6664 жыл бұрын
I always recommend Guards,Guards.
@TonkarzOfSolSystem3 жыл бұрын
Vorbis and Bertha in the desert of the afterlife is like the reverse of the scorpion and the frog.
@countluke23343 жыл бұрын
Brutha not changing is, as you said, important. The should have remembered that for Luke Skywalker when doing the sequel trilogy.
@Sparkbomber3 жыл бұрын
Gotta disagree with you on parts of what you've said in this video: Brutha does change over the course of the book, significantly at that. He goes from a well-intentioned abuse victim, believing innocently to a man who manages to not only reform the bloodiest religious organisation known to the Disc into a more peaceful one (still killing folks, but by boring them with perpetual pamphlets and invitations to sermons), but also pacifies a lot of people who'd previously been intent on eradicating Omnia. He goes from not knowing anything to carrying a large section of the library of Ephebe in his mind, by memorizing every page as an image. FTR, he never learns to write as we do, but simply draws the words in his correspondence. His belief shifts to one where he trusts Om despite the latter's many faults and holds him accountable. Sadly enough Pratchett only later brought Om back and basically futzed the character then due to either his alzheimers, or due to the hidden understudy. Or both.
@benjaminbrewer25695 жыл бұрын
The turtle moves!!!
@GGMCUKAGAIN4 жыл бұрын
Terry Pratchett the Jedi to Alan Moore's sith.
@playersinexile723 жыл бұрын
Several times now I've watched your videos and concluded I pronounce names in books in my head far differently to you. Brutha in my head is pronounced Brother...probably incorrectly but it's an interesting realisation.
@darthplagueis134 ай бұрын
You're absolutely correct about that pronunciation. It's a pun and Vorbis even references that at one point.
@AlphaBeta-cf5wf4 жыл бұрын
I would kindof disagree a bit that Brutha doesn't change at all. His character arc is that he was raised to be completely obedient in a society that values obedience, because Om was clearly in charge and it was right that everyone do what he wanted. Nothing done in the service of Om could be wrong. Brutha was happy to be an obedient servant to the greater good. But when he sees the harm that his obedience does/would cause he sees a certain cowardice in the obedience - an abdication of responsibility. This is when he steps up to not just try and prevent any more harm but to take responsibility for the damage he has already caused.
@tinad85613 жыл бұрын
Bridging the gap between “the fallen angel and the rising ape.”
@simonsimon3252 жыл бұрын
That was very pleasant. Thanks.
@jasonmccallum32892 жыл бұрын
Nice plot summary
@reddir5 жыл бұрын
A like just for 1:44 ! Finished listening to the whole vid, kinda wish I could give 2 likes.
@kapilthevkanapathipillai6424 Жыл бұрын
Just finished listening to it
@jessicajayes83263 жыл бұрын
I often think if this could be adapted into a movie I'd want Om to be voiced by Taika Waititi and Death voiced by Michael Gambon.
@nacmegfeegle23103 жыл бұрын
Perfect
@ethangonzalez89043 жыл бұрын
LOL, I always thought that picture was the god turtle from Stephen King's "It"
@Caseytify3 жыл бұрын
One interpretation I've read is that Brutha is pronounced "brotha," similar to slang for brother. So he's Brother Brutha. ... Well, I thought it was funny...
@Skorpys3652 жыл бұрын
I would still like Brutha's eidetic memory!
@ruigen80463 жыл бұрын
Pratchett is up there with Tolkien, Douglas Adams as being one of the most important and influential authors in Sci Fi. His books should be big budget films and Rincewind should be the centre, although I doubt they would allow it as he is not what Hollywood believe a hero to be. I also put the first 2 Red Dwarf Novels up there as being the best - they are insanely good and well worth a read. Hollywood has all this original material to use yet they continue to re hash old ideas and the same formulaic rubbish. Are they blind?
@Synergyseek3 жыл бұрын
The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic (following Rincewind) have a film adaptation already, it's pretty good.
@ruigen80463 жыл бұрын
@@Synergyseek yeah ive seen them - id just like a big budget one - but only if it stays loyal to the book.
@josephhargrove43193 жыл бұрын
Regarding the pronunciation of the name "Brutha": when I read _Small_Gods_ (which I think is one of the best Discworld novels along with _Wyrd_Sisters_, _Reaper_Man_, _Hogfather_, and _Snuff_), I assumed the name was pronounced with a buzzy th sound, like "the", with the u being a schwa just like "brother." Basically, the pronunciation given to "brother" in Black Vernacular. I thought that pronunciation made the wittiness of the name more pronounced. richard -- "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.” -- Granny Aching - Terry Pratchett. The Wee Free Men
@barberaradford17063 жыл бұрын
Best word ever: betortoised
@jesse-got-dolphins-into-heaven4 жыл бұрын
lovely bit
@LordPhobos65023 жыл бұрын
Please tell me you read Monsterous Regiment? ❤
@AndroidOO37 жыл бұрын
Chills
@3mepleasenow3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@stephanisoejono86335 жыл бұрын
You probably should credit the artist who did the fanart, @twirlynoodle on twitter.
@JillBearup5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I will! (The pencil drawings or the comic panels?)
@azazelreeds2 жыл бұрын
This book was my introduction to Discworld. My friend, a long time fan of Pratchett, recommended it because I'm an atheist who loves to mock religion but also someone who deeply appreciates the importance of religion to culture and humanity as a whole. She wasn't wrong; I absolutely adore everything about this book.