Thud!
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Fantasy novel and murder mystery
submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 16, 2012, 4:44pm
If you like fantasy novels and murder mysteries, you'll love "Thud!" Audiences love it so much that they rated it their favorite of all Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels in 2010.
The story centers upon Ankh-Morpork City Watch Commander Sam Vimes and his colleagues, including Captain Carrot, as they solve the apparent murder of a dwarf that leads to tensions between the city's trolls and dwarfs, two groups often at odds. To prevent all out war between the two groups in the city and elsewhere on the Discworld, Vimes and his family travel to Koom Valley, where a battle occured that both sides claim was the beginning of the other's attrocities against them.
This book deals with race relations and drug use, but has an uplighting ending. I recommend it highly, along with the other 38 Discworld books Pratchett wrote. As the seventh novel about the City Watch, "Thud!" makes more sense if one reads the other six first, starting with "Guards! Guards!"
One of the better Terry Pratchett Books! submitted by AngelaA2 on August 14, 2020, 8:26pm All of the Discworld series is incredible! It contains multiple "series within a series" - this book is one of the "Night Watch" books. It details a war between the Trolls and the Dwarves - and watch happens when both sides are playing politics. Features favorite characters prominently - a favorite. You dont' need to reach the others in the series to appreciate it. Go to a "Disworld Reading Order" for advice and start where ever you would like, except the first one, which is terrible.
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Discworld series
31.
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperCollins, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 373 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 720
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0060815221
9780062334985
SUBJECTS
Vimes, Samuel (Fictitious character)
Discworld (Imaginary place)
Postal service -- Fiction.
Civil service -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Satire.