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Thud! Terry Pratchett
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KoomValley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh... and at six o’clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read Where’s My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do. 'He may write benign comedy but he knows how horribly complicated and exciting the Universe is.' The
Times
'Thud! has a serious theme: racial intolerance. That Pratchett can explore this while still making us laugh is a tribute to the integrity of his created world ... Extremely funny but it's also very near the knuckleduster.' Scotland
on Sunday
'A series that seems to re-invent itself by natural evolution every time.' Starburst
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Review by Hidayah Ismawi (300412) Rating (9/10) Review
by Hidayah Ismawi
What I liked about this book: The characters are all very lively and painted with deep brushstrokes, so that the reader does not only know them superficially but knew their motivations and essence. He describes what it feels like to be a werewolf, mundane things like resisting the urge to wag its tail when happy, or how they deal with bad hair days to the immense need to just rip the nearest vampire apart. We get to understand why a vampire needs to turn into hundreds of bats instead of one and how they carry emergency kits with dust pans and instructions just in case they accidentally turn to dust. All these mythical creatures are described in such a human way or more precisely so that a human would understand them. My favourite part of the book is how Commander Vimes deals with his Gooseberry, a small box containing an imp which reminds him of appointments, send messages to other people by running very fast and is a whiz with numbers. The imp is often chastising him for losing the instruction manual and calls him Insert Name Here. Haha. The story line was well thought out and each character contributed to the story. This was truly a great book filled with smart humour.
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