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The Fifth Elephant
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| Author: |
Terry Pratchett |
| Publisher: |
HarperTorch, 2001 Doubleday UK, 2000 HarperPrism, 2000 |
| Series: | Discworld: Book 24 |
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1. The Color of Magic |
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| Awards: |
2000 Locus F Nominated |
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| Sub-Genre Tags: | Comic Fantasy Fantasy |
| Member Rating: |
   (16 reads / 9 ratings)
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Synopsis
Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?
When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts.
It's up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.
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Amazon.com Review Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular plac… ... - Rebekah Reads the Library and Tyler Learns to Read: Accordian ...
... The Selected Words of T.S. Elliot - T.S. Elliot; A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams; The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams; Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett; The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett; Guards! Guards! ... - A little nutmeg adds flavour: Things that make me smile No.65
... The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer; What Girls Learn - Karin Cook; 1984 - George Orwell; Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett; The Mayor of Casterbridge ... - Favourite Terry Pratchett Discworld novels « Evolving Thoughts
The Fifth Elephant (1999). 6. Thief of Time (2001). 7. The Wee Free Men (2003). 8. A Hat Full of Sky (2004). 9. Going Postal (2004). 10. Maskerade (1995). 11. Interesting Times (1994). 12. Witches Abroad (1991). 13. Wyrd Sisters (1988) ... - The Wertzone: Where to Start? - Terry Pratchett (Discworld)
Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, The Last Hero, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, Thud! The Ankh-Morpork City Watch sub-series is almost certainly the most popular of the various ongoing ... - Cheekyness: Sit Down While Going up Mountains
Reading: The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett; Evening Class, Mauve Binchy; The Copper Beech, Mauve Binchy; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams; Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett ... - Giant Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2182, Is It The Wrath Of God Yet ...
Sorry, I just strayed into the plot of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon. 1999 RQ36, not to be confused with the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, has a one in a thousand chance of actually hitting the Earth, ... a toxic cesspit and all humans will be dead raising the question of, if a thousand tons of enraged elephant crash into the planet and no one is around to hear it, does it, in fact, make a sound. Sorry, strayed off into The Fifth Elephant there. ... - Terry Pratchett Book List » The Terry Pratchett Book List
The Fifth Elephant The Truth Thief of Time The Last Hero The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents Night Watch The Wee Free Men Monstrous Regiment A Hat Full of Sky Going Postal Thud! Wintersmith Making Money Unseen Academicals ... - 5-Squared: The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett. 2000; 370 pages. Genre : Satiric Fantasy. 24th book in the Discworld Series. Awards : #153 in the "Big Read". Overall Rating : C+. . The Dwarfs' "Scone of Stone" has been pinched by miscreants ... - Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett | Novel Reaction
Release Date: July 31, 2001. I highly recommend reading everything by Terry Pratchett, for those interested in reading the Watch series in order: Guards! Guards! Men at Arms. Feet of Clay. Jingo. The Fifth Elephant. Night Watch ...
