# Pratchett and Wolfe *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 10 Dec 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Russell Wodell *10 Dec 2001, 16:21* Just picked up Andrew M. Butler's Pocket Essentials guide to Terry Pratchett, and was struck dumb by one of his notes on "Small Gods": "Brutha, with his photographic memory, and the role of torture in the world echoes Gene Wolfe's _The Book of the New Sun_ (1980-83) sequence." This certainly never occurred to me when reading "Small Gods," Pratchett's most sustained attack on organized religion, especially the Catholic Inquisition, and I don't remember Pratchett ever mentioning Wolfe in ay context whatsoever. Comments? --- ### Michael Straight *10 Dec 2001, 17:16 · follows Russell Wodell* > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Russell Wodell wrote: > This certainly never occurred to me when reading "Small Gods," Pratchett's > most sustained attack on organized religion, especially the Catholic > Inquisition, and I don't remember Pratchett ever mentioning Wolfe in ay > context whatsoever. > > Comments? Having seen lots of praise for Pratchett on the internet, I gave "Small Gods" a try but found it so hamhanded and unfunny that I could barely skim it. I flipped around reading a few pages here, there, and at the end, but couldn't find anything I liked. Do you think there's a chance I'd like any of his other books, or is Small Gods pretty representative? (direct e-mail might be more appropriate since my question is pretty off-topic for the Wolfe list) -Rostrum ---