Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett Reviews

Feet of Clay is the nineteenth Discworld novel. Set on a flat world populated by Wizards, Dwarves, Trolls and Golems it is a place were anything can happen and often does. However, what makes this and every other Discworld novel different is that this world strangely mirrors our own. Royalty and the aristocracy are pompous; politicians ...  Read the complete review

A fantasticly funny book that will have you laughing out loud! - Advantages: Pratchet at his funniest, Very well written, Detrtus the troll is in it! - Disadvantages: It had an end!

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's books for only a few months now, but this one "Feet of Clay" had me in stitches. If you pardon the pun, it literally cracked me up at times! Having been told that I would enjoy them I embarked on reading all the Pratchett novels in order. A tall task, I hear you cry, but I have a long ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes when writing a review you feel that you are really wasting your time because there isn't an audience for it. That is how I feel in writing this one. Why? Well, as I see it, if you are a fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series(of which this is one) then you will either have read this, or have it on your reading list and there is ...  Read the complete review

Being ill is always a good excuse to get some reading done – well, in-between dealing with the kids and the minimum essential housework, of course! Having a sore throat, bunged-up nose and a headache, not to mention the dizzy spells (Oh d*mn, I just did!) – well, how about a good book to cure it all? Well, maybe not cure it, but it ...  Read the complete review

I stopped reading Terry Pratchett books a while ago. Not for any particular reason, I just started reading more contemporary novels. When I stopped, this had just come out. When I saw it was another in the series of City Watch books, I was quite tempted as I enjoyed the previous Watch books, but still didn't buy. A couple of weeks ago I ...  Read the complete review

Whilst wasting a lot of time sitting around in my dormitory in Moscow last month , I had the oppurtunity of reading this book not once , not twice , but thrice (what do you call four times? ). Unfortuantely no characters out of any Tim Burton film apperared but that really doesnt matter , what matters is that this book was worth reading three ...  Read the complete review

Having been an avid fan of the Discworld series of books since the very beginning, I have to say that this is one of the better books that have been set in Ankh-Morpork. The book itself revolves around the members of the City Watch living out their lives in a city bubbling over with plot and counter-plot. Feet of Clay is the third novel ...  Read the complete review

Ankh-Morpork's Watch. What can be said of them? (Quite a few things, most starting with the word 'Inept'). There's Commander Samuel Vimes at the head of them. He's a genius of crime solving, but has a history of being an alcoholic. Captain Carrot, who sees the best in people, even people you wouldn't trust as far ...  Read the complete review

What roles do robots play in our society? Well in feet of clay this is explored with hilariuos consequences. This is a book featuring the watch. As vimes and the crew investigate a murder, the weapon appears to be a loaf of bread (bread? oh, you mean dwarf bread!) The book is typical pratchett goodness. Carots new girlfriend ...  Read the complete review

This is, perhaps, one of the best books I've read...... I could say that but I'd be lying. This undoubtedly is a very good book, but it doesn'y compare with the likes of Tolkien, Asimov etc. it won't until Pratchett dies that is. It's a very funny book - some great subtlety in some of the humour ...  Read the complete review

That's the question in this book, where murder nad mayhem go hand in hand with laughs. Set in Ankh Morpork, it features Sam Vimes and his city watch trying to solve a spate of murders in the city, and also the Patrician is being poisoned slowly but surely, and no one knows by whom. A typical discworld novel, this one brings yet more ...  Read the complete review

This book is as most Pratchett books are, incredibly funny, however I have noticed an undercurrent of some of his recent works that give over a deeper message. In his "Witches" series Pratchett brings to light and genrally pokes fun at peoples perception of gender roles and sexism in general. However in his ...  Read the complete review

This is the third in the subseries of Discworld, which is most generally called the Watch series. After the events in the earlier Watch books the Watch isn’t so much a laughing stock and is growing considerably in numbers. The Patrician has been struck down with a mystery ailment and it is up to Watch to try and figure out why while trying ...  Read the complete review

A modern day who done it with laughs all the way thru. Somebody has poisoned Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't know how or who has done it. For some unknown reason, someone has stolen some of Igneous's clay. Strange things are happening, and they're all pointing to the golems ...  Read the complete review

There is a strange murder with some very odd clues. The Watch is dragged in to investigate. This is a story about golems- clay creatures kept alive by the 'words in their heads', written on pieces of paper. They are created by powerful wizards and priests, but they make people uncomfortable and it is no longer allowed to create them. The ...  Read the complete review

Somebody has poisoned Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. Commander Sam Vimes, of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't know how or who. The only person with means and motive is himself, and Vimes is pretty sure he's not the murderer. So who is? But for the Commander of the Watch, that's not the only crime that's ...  Read the complete review