I whole heartedly agree!!
Yes, because it wasn’t a very good book. 
Maybe I’m weird in that I read Pratchett for his COMBINATION of characters, worldbuilding and satire, so a book that’s really only about the satire comes up short in my estimation. It’s not that I disagree with the themes, but it’s very possible to take good themes and write a boring book.
Small Gods bored me deeply.
This. It happened to be the first Discworld book I read; possibly because of that, I can’t get into the Rincewind stuff much.
Guards! Guards! and all of the City Watch books follow for me, but Maskerade and Lords and Ladies are right behind, if not side-by-side. I mean…Carrot. Come ON. Anything with him as a quiet focus is just the shit. I’m very much a Nanny Ogg type myself, but the Watch books just shade out the witches a bit.
The Rincewind stuff is kinda crap compared to everything else he wrote, to be honest. The Last Hero and* Interesting Times *manage to be good in spite of him, not because of him. As for The Last Continent, I give it an enthusiastic and resounding “meh”, although the weirdly disconnected plotline feat. the God of Evolution is admittedly pretty fun.
Rincewind and The Luggage are funnier at one remove; By which I mean, they SOUND humorous when viewed from a distance, but aren’t actually entertaining to read about directly. I think Mr. Pratchett recognized this, which is why he wasn’t really writing Rincewind anymore.
Mine as well. Nothing else in his work has quite the power of the “Rough Music” chapter. I’ve read it a dozen times, and it still hits me the same way. Nearly everything I love about his work is in there.
Rincewind is just tiresome, but then most of the Wizard stories don’t do much for me: The Last Continent was a mish-mash of ideas leavened with silly jokes about Australia {calling it “Fourecks” was just inane}. Some good ideas - the tropical island outside the study window was worthwhile, as was the God of Evolution - but unusually for middle Pratchett, a low signal to noise ratio.
Small Gods was **chock-full **of characters and worldbuilding - hell, it’s our first real encounter with Lu-Tze just to name one important bit.
I literally cannot comprehend how you could honestly say it was only about the satire.
Night Watch is mine, too. I’ve read it three times and will read it many more. I’m still not through the series yet- have been making it last as long as I can from the start. I’ve just started Going Postal for the first time.
Hogfather, Reaper Man, Thief of Time, Feet of Clay, and Men at Arms are all ones I’ve read twice.
Because I go against the crowd: Snuff with I Shall Wear Midnight a damned CLOSE second.
For me it’s Reaper Man. I always get all teary-eyed at the end.
I dunno; I read it over a decade ago, and I cannot remember ANYONE interesting from it at all. Except Brutha, who I remember being essentially free of personality.
I’ve never felt any urge to go back and try to correct this impression.
Don’t feel alone, I think the book is boring as hell.