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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9862334" data-attributes="member: 54629">Oh sure, most if not all of the Discworld novels have some elements of parody in them. What I meant was, those early novels are almost purely parody of other existing fantasy settings. There's an element of pastiche in them too. It wasn't until around Sourcery that Pratchett really started making Discworld a living, breathing world of its own. I think also that his parody topics changed. He wasn't just poking fun at the fantasy genre any longer. He started adding historical, political, religious and social commentary in his novels. There's a lot of marked social justice in some of his later works, with a concerted effort to make various species count as people (e.g. goblins) and so on.I can appreciate Small Gods from as much of an objective perspective as I can muster, but I still can't help but find it a little too sacrilegious at times, which makes me unable to place it in my top 5. Like I get that being sacrilegious and poking fun at religion is the whole point of the novel, but that still lessens my enjoyment of it.Absolutely. I just really didn't enjoy The Shepherd's Crown at all. I read all four preceding Tiffany Aching books aloud to all three of my daughters, but I didn't bother to read that one to any of them.</blockquote>