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Una desternillante sátira sobre religiones y guerras.Brutha es un muchacho sencillo y analfabeto que se enfrenta a terribles problemas. Un dios le ha hablado y se ha convertido en el Elegido. Quiere terminar con una iglesia poderosa y corrupta, quiere evitar una horrible guerra santa, quiere paz y justicia. Pero por encima de todo, lo que realmente quiere ¡es que su dios elija a Otro!«Sin duda alguna, Terry Pratchett es el parodista más humorístico de la actualidad.»The New York Review of Science Fiction… (más)
souloftherose: Although The Blue Hawk is aimed specifically at children/young adults and Small Gods is an adult book, I think both books examine and raise interesting questions about faith and religion and readers who enjoyed one may well enjoy the other.
Eat_Read_Knit: A very different style of book from a very different genre, but an interesting commentary on the corruption/misuse of religious faith which complements this book's treatment of the same theme.
electronicmemory: Humorous but also insightful stories about ordinary mortals who find themselves caught up in the - often petty - fights of their gods.
Brutha es un muchacho sencillo y analfabeto que se enfrenta a terribles problemas. Un dios le ha hablado y se ha convertido en el Elegido. Quiere terminar con una Iglesia poderosa y corrupta, quiere evitar una horrible guerra santa, quiere paz y justicia. Pero por encima de todo, lo que realmente quiere ¡es que su dios elija a Otro!
Mundodisco es una exitosa serie de ciencia-ficción, de la que su autor, Terry Pratchett, ya ha escrito 25 títulos. Relatos fantásticos sobre un planeta circular y plano que viaja a través del espacio sobre el caparazón de una tortuga gigante. Dioses menores es el número 13 de esta serie.
En esta nueva entrega, las cosas andan revueltas en Mundodisco entre dioses y religiones. Brutha, el elegido, un muchacho sencillo y analfabeto, se enfrenta a toda una serie de problemas, que abarcan desde la Inquisición, dirigida por un ser brutal, a la guerra implacable con una flota multinacional. Pero, por suerte, siempre hay algún Dios de pacotilla dispuesto a echar una mano y evitar que una guerra sangrienta sea contemplada por sus congéneres como una sencilla partida de ajedrez. Una aguda y desopilante sátira sobre religiones y guerras, en el mejor estilo del autor. ( )
La tierra no es plana, no está montada sobre 4 elefantes y una tortuga gigante, eso es una gran mentira de los paganos. El gran Dios siempre dijo que era redonda, y los exquisidores son los encargados de divulgar su palabra. Maravilloso libro de la serie de Mundodisco donde Pratchett se mete con la religión y el fanatismo de genial manera. Una excelente manera de ver como funciona la psicología de la religión a travez de la comedia. ( )
The problem with Small Gods is that its plot is complicated without being especially deft, and many tiny scenes exist solely to move stage scenery. Since a fair number of Pratchett's jokes recur from one book to the next, and many of the jokes in this novel are of the running or repeating variety (virtually every character, seeing Om as a tortoise, remarks, "There's good eating on one of those things"), the reader can end up looking for the good lines, like a partygoer digging through a dish of peanuts for the odd cashew.
He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually have to kill them before they saw the error of their ways.
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.
And it all meant this: that there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot be easily duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes to work every day and has a job to do.
"Life in this world," he said, "is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say, humbly, `Go on, do Deformed Rabbit . . . it's my favorite.' "
People have reality-dampers. It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual. Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected. They'd say "Wow!" a lot. And no one would do much work. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient. It can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels.
Una desternillante sátira sobre religiones y guerras.Brutha es un muchacho sencillo y analfabeto que se enfrenta a terribles problemas. Un dios le ha hablado y se ha convertido en el Elegido. Quiere terminar con una iglesia poderosa y corrupta, quiere evitar una horrible guerra santa, quiere paz y justicia. Pero por encima de todo, lo que realmente quiere ¡es que su dios elija a Otro!«Sin duda alguna, Terry Pratchett es el parodista más humorístico de la actualidad.»The New York Review of Science Fiction
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