Pratchett’s seventh Discworld novel was markedly funnier than the previous volumes, and much more consistently funny at the same time. So that was awesome. Unfortunately, it wasn’t funny enough to mask how muddied the rest of the book was. Pyramids has a core theme, about the dangers of stagnancy to the human condition. It’s just that the execution wandered all over the place, making it almost impossible for me to really see that theme until nearly the end of the book, and even worse, making it almost impossible for me to really get into the plot, whose point I still probably missed.

But the increased skill at humor made up for a lot of that, and I still have to say that on the whole the series is unquestionably improving, still. I believe I’ve read the next book before, and possibly as my entry into the series some 20 years ago. So that will be potentally interesting!