Snuff
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'Effortlessly, generously funny' Sunday Times
'Pratchett at his best' 5-star reader review
'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having some time off. Apparently.
But crime doesn't take a break - it's a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman on holiday would barely have time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
In the seemingly peaceful countryside, Vimes discovers much more than a body in the wardrobe. For the local nobles are hiding a deep, dark secret. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient atrocity more terrible than murder.
Vimes is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth and out of his mind. But never out of ideas. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. This might be the exception ...
Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express
'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch
'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard
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Terry Pratchett schafft es, selbst aus einem Buch mit einem so harten Thema wie Rassismus eine Wohlfühlgeschichte zu machen. Und das ohne das eigentliche Thema zu verharmlosen oder aus den Augen zu verlieren. Wieder einmal beweist Sir Terry, dass er ein Meister seines Faches ist. Bei Pratchett kann das Unschuldige in Gegenwart der Dunkelheit unschuldig sein und bleiben. Und das Raue, Deftige darf sich selbst bleiben. Es darf gelacht werden, es darf geweint werden und es darf sich geprügelt werden. Das Buch ist vielleicht ein wenig zu lang geworden, zumindest aus meiner Sicht, aber Pratchett geht trotzdem immer und enttäuscht nie.
Pratchett Reread 8/41 _ Watch Arc
I'll be honest, after finishing this last book in the Discworld Watch Arc, I feel reluctant to pick up anything else because it won't contain nearly enough of Samuel Vimes. However, Snuff ends that storyline rather fittingly (even though that may not necessarily have been Sir Terry's intention). After having been convinced (or coerced?) by his wife (and Lord Vetinari, let's not kid around), to go for a holiday in the countryside, it doesn't take Sam Vimes too long to find himself in a fistfight, closely followed by a moonlit stroll in the hills and a dead body. Is he far out of his jurisdiction? Naturally. But murder is murder and gods be damned if he doesn't do anything about this. I did miss the rest of the Watch a bit in this one, but we get a lot of Willikins, Vimes' martial butler, which nearly makes up for the lack of Carrot, Angua et al. On to the wizards next, I think! 🌟
I liked this Vimes novel. Including all the poo. The only think I would have preferred to be a bit better would be everyone else except the "Vimes Family". A village mystery like this one should have more fleshed-out characters. The bad guy is bad because he is bad... and never once appeared in the novel. The poo-lady was there to give some explanation and then was never mentioned until the happy end... and somehow it feeled like there should have been some kind of romance between Feeney and the poo-lady but it was with the blacksmith who made 10 pages of the book?
Description
'Effortlessly, generously funny' Sunday Times
'Pratchett at his best' 5-star reader review
'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is having some time off. Apparently.
But crime doesn't take a break - it's a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman on holiday would barely have time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
In the seemingly peaceful countryside, Vimes discovers much more than a body in the wardrobe. For the local nobles are hiding a deep, dark secret. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient atrocity more terrible than murder.
Vimes is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth and out of his mind. But never out of ideas. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. This might be the exception ...
Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express
'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch
'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard
Book Information
Posts
Terry Pratchett schafft es, selbst aus einem Buch mit einem so harten Thema wie Rassismus eine Wohlfühlgeschichte zu machen. Und das ohne das eigentliche Thema zu verharmlosen oder aus den Augen zu verlieren. Wieder einmal beweist Sir Terry, dass er ein Meister seines Faches ist. Bei Pratchett kann das Unschuldige in Gegenwart der Dunkelheit unschuldig sein und bleiben. Und das Raue, Deftige darf sich selbst bleiben. Es darf gelacht werden, es darf geweint werden und es darf sich geprügelt werden. Das Buch ist vielleicht ein wenig zu lang geworden, zumindest aus meiner Sicht, aber Pratchett geht trotzdem immer und enttäuscht nie.
Pratchett Reread 8/41 _ Watch Arc
I'll be honest, after finishing this last book in the Discworld Watch Arc, I feel reluctant to pick up anything else because it won't contain nearly enough of Samuel Vimes. However, Snuff ends that storyline rather fittingly (even though that may not necessarily have been Sir Terry's intention). After having been convinced (or coerced?) by his wife (and Lord Vetinari, let's not kid around), to go for a holiday in the countryside, it doesn't take Sam Vimes too long to find himself in a fistfight, closely followed by a moonlit stroll in the hills and a dead body. Is he far out of his jurisdiction? Naturally. But murder is murder and gods be damned if he doesn't do anything about this. I did miss the rest of the Watch a bit in this one, but we get a lot of Willikins, Vimes' martial butler, which nearly makes up for the lack of Carrot, Angua et al. On to the wizards next, I think! 🌟
I liked this Vimes novel. Including all the poo. The only think I would have preferred to be a bit better would be everyone else except the "Vimes Family". A village mystery like this one should have more fleshed-out characters. The bad guy is bad because he is bad... and never once appeared in the novel. The poo-lady was there to give some explanation and then was never mentioned until the happy end... and somehow it feeled like there should have been some kind of romance between Feeney and the poo-lady but it was with the blacksmith who made 10 pages of the book?