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Thud!
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| Author: |
Terry Pratchett |
| Publisher: |
HarperTorch, 2006 Doubleday UK, 2005 HarperCollins, 2005 |
| Series: | Discworld: Book 34 |
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1. The Color of Magic |
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| Awards: |
2006 Locus F Nominated |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Comic Fantasy Fantasy Mythic Fiction (SF) |
| Member Rating: |
   (8 reads / 7 ratings)
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Synopsis
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer -- he might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace -- and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirring up big trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events.
Centuries earlier, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, a horde of trolls met a division of dwarfs in bloody combat. Though nobody's quite sure why they fought or who actually won, hundreds of years on each species still bears the cultural scars, and one views the other with simmering animosity and distrust. Lately, an influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens with incendiary speeches. And it doesn't help matters when the pint-size provocateur is discovered beaten to death... with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.
Vimes knows the well-being of his smoldering city depends on his ability to solve the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's secondmost-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to being home every evening at six sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Young Sam.) Whatever it takes to unstick this very sticky situation, Vimes will do it -- even tolerate having a vampire in the Watch. But there's more than one corpse waiting for him in the eerie, summoning darkness of the vast, labyrinthine mine network the dwarfs have been excavating in secret beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. A deadly puzzle is pulling Sam Vimes deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear -- and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.
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Thud! in Blogs
- Book log: Terry Pratchett — Thud!
The 34th Discworld book — and one which I bought on its initial release in 2005 and then failed to read for reasons of Bad Case Of Life. Have finally read it, and enjoyed it muchly. LibraryThing entry. Filed under: book log, ... - Terry pratchett thud thud - 03
House increased in suitable england, the midlands and the south east, various artists klemania scattered thoughts of a canyon flight. Immediately, some stars have seldom made playing the divided notes on the lives under the impact ... - SciFi-Fantasy Bookshelf: Thud!
The Battle of Koom Valley (and its numerous repetitions) is the wheel around which Terry Pratchett's Thud! turns. In this, the 34th Discworld novel, Commander Samuel Vimes and the various members of the City Watch are the main ... - Aradia's Reading: Terry Pratchett's Discworld, An Adventur
The Light Fantastic, Interesting Times, Soul music, Hogfather, Thief of Time, Wyrd sisters, Carpe Jugulum, The Truth, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Making Money, Guards Gaurds!, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The fifthe Elephant, and Thud! ... - Book Report: Thud, by Terry Pratchett
I find Pratchett books are like peanuts: one just leads to another. In this one, Sam Vimes, the commander of the Ankh-Morpork city watch, discovers the murder of a Dwarf by what appears to have been one of their ancestral enemies: a ... - Thud!: Discworld, Book 30 (Unabridged) - Terry Pratchett
If he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see the Koom Valley ambush fought again, right outside his office.... - Terry Pratchett's "Making Money" -- economic comedy - Boing Boing
I'm willing to bet that Doctorow would pay Terry Pratchett to write a review. My first read was "The Fifth Elephant" and I was hooked. I went to our local bookstore and bought every single Discworld volume that was there. .... I've just started Mort so I've got a long way to go, but by the time I finish Thud! we should have the paperback down here in NZ... Take a look at this. #31 posted by Niteowl · Author Profile Page , September 30, 2007 12:30 AM. May the gods help me, ... - Chicken Spaghetti: Byatt on Pratchett; MacIntyre on Banned Books
Over at the Times, A.S. Byatt reviews Terry Pratchett's Thud! and finds much to her liking, even going so far as to recommend his novels to all children because they teach the reader to think. Ben MacIntyre comments on American Banned ... - Thud by Terry Pratchett, and staying up late watching Most Haunted.
Ever since I first discovered the Discworld novels I have been in love with them, but, I have tried to read this many times and I couldn't, it just didn't "do it " for me. So, I found it on Audio in my local library and I have really ... - Terry Pratchett's Latest Books | Basternae.org
I just finished reading Thud! and Making Money by Terry Pratchett. They're both excellent books, and if you haven't read any of his work you probably ought to. It's sort of that British-style Douglas-Adams-y thing, but applied to ...