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Loading... The Fifth Elephant (Discworld) (original 1999; edition 2001)by Terry Pratchett
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 4.5, really. I think my favorite of the Watch series, so far. Certainly the one that makes me want to think and talk and argue the most. Also, werewolves and gender and nuanced dwarf Judaism really are my cup of tea, so. ( ) I think the City Guard series are my favorite of the discworld books, followed closely by Death. The king of the dwarves died and everyone is invited to attend the coronation of the new king. though there is a bit of debate on who should be the next king. Commander Vimes was sent as the ambassador for Ankh-Morpork. Vimes has his work cut out for him, but he gets to do his policing which he likes vs the ambassador stuff which he doesn't really care for. But mysteries are his cup of tea and he needs to solve it to help prevent international relations from going south. Enn eitt létt grínið hjá Pratchett. Nú er merkasti gripurinn á dvergasafninu í Ankh-Morpogh stolið og hann tengist krýningu næsta konungs dverganna í Ubervald. Yfirmaður löggæslunnar í A-M, Sam Vines, er sendur til að aðstoða við rannsókn þjófnaðirins enda var raunverulega gripnum sjálfum stolið í Ubervald. Allt er að sjóða upp úr og því þarf að sýna sérstaklega pólitíska næmni í samskiptum við fylkingar dverga, varúlfa og vampíra í Ubervald. Vines er kjörinn í starfið. Fíllinn er mættur í postulínsbúðina! Very good! Top form Pratchett. The Clacks are very cool, Uberwald is a great setting, and the werewolves and dwarves both had a lot of interesting stuff going on (and Lady Margoletta floating around too, of course). There were some really well-written scenes, like The Game, and Gaspode & Carrot’s journey. Still dislike Colon a lot but you’re supposed to this time, and I appreciate Nobby more now that he’s a union man. Btw, I like Angua and Carrot’s relationship quite a bit, but I feel like I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop— and Angua seems to be waiting for it too. Either Carrot needs to fail at something, or Angua needs to accept she’s worthy of perfect love from him, I think. Not to overanalyze the relationship of two fictional characters.
Trying to summarize the plot of a Pratchett novel is like describing "Hamlet" as a play about a troubled guy with an Oedipus complex and a murderous uncle. Pratchett isn't Shakespeare -- for one thing, he's funnier -- but his books are richly textured, as the pundits say, and far more complex than they appear at first. You don't have to be familiar with folklore, Leonardo da Vinci and Capability Brown, the history of religion, "Macbeth" and Laurel and Hardy to appreciate them, but if you aren't, you will miss some of the in-jokes. Just consider yourself grabbed by the collar, with me shouting, "You've got to read this book!" Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inAwardsNotable Lists
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves--and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck, and already out of breath ... No library descriptions found.
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