Pyramids

 Pyramids by Terry Pratchett, 341 pages.

Teppic breaks his family's extremely ancient conventions when he decides to go off to Ankh-Morpork to train as an assassin instead of sticking around to learn how to run his family's ancient river valley kingdom. But when his father dies his family's divinity hits him at high speeds, and he has to go back to Djelibeybi to fulfill his role as god-emperor. Teppic's foreign upbringing brings some friction to his unchanging kingdom, and Djelibeybi may yet be dragged into the present at last.

Pratchett's discworld novels are always funny, but I did find this one a little disappointing. It's a pretty early book in the series, and the roughness of it shows. I also feel like it lacked the clarity of purpose that really makes satire shine. This is a fine book, but I don't think I would recommend it as an entry point to the series.