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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 ...… (mere)
Vimes got another promotion, and as well as being the Duke of Ankh Morpork he is now an ambassador to Uberwald. With the introduction of the clacks he should be able to stay in touch with the Watch while he visits Bonk for the Low King's coronation. But between the dwarves, the vampires, and the werewolves nothing is as simple as it might seem. Meanwhile back home, Colon is left in charge and he's on the case of the sugar cube bandit. This novel resonates with me. From Carrot and Angua's storyline to Sybil's surprising soprano solo, there's a lot here about love and sacrifice as well as duty and honor and other kinds of sacrifices. Fun and funny but gut wrenching, too. The thing and the whole of the thing. ( )
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. ( )
Dicen que la tierra es plana y se aguanta a lomos de cuatro elefantes que están encima del caparazón de una tortuga. Dicen que había un quinto elefante, y lo que ocurrió con él ha pasado a formar parte de la leyenda. Dicen que en cualquier leyenda siempre hay una pizca de verdad… Llega la entrega número 24 de la serie del Mundodisco, del genial Terry Pratchett. Si lord Vetinari, el taimado gobernante de la metrópoli de Ankh-Morpork, quería alguien con tacto y diplomacia para que representara a la ciudad durante la ceremonia de coronación del nuevo rey electo de los enanos en el distante país de Überwald, ¿por qué -se pregunta Sam Vimes- lo ha escogido a él? Lord Vetinari quiere echarle a los lobos. Y a los enanos. Y a los vampiros. Porque éstas son las tres mayorías que gobiernan el vasto y feudal reino de Überwald. Donde se extrae el mejor sebo para velas y cirios, del que es absolutamente dependiente la ciudad de Ankh-Morpork. Así que esta misión diplomática es también una misión económica encubierta, para lo cual un curioso funcionario de palacio acompañará a los nuevos embajadores: él se encargará de todos los susurros y guiños mientras Vimes se dedique a servir los sándwiches de pepinillo. Aunque no le apetezca, sir Samuel Vimes, comandante de la Guardia de la Ciudad, no va a poder negarse a la orden de lord Vetinari, y pronto parte con su séquito hacia Überwald, donde deberá resolver un misterio.
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!"
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Tilegnelse
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Many thanks to Peter Bleackley for his help with the dwarf opera Bloodaxe and Ironhammer, which was probably a lot better in his version (and had a lot more songs about gold).
Første ord
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They say the world is flat and supported on the back of four elephants who themselves stand on the back of a giant turtle.
They say that the elephants, being such huge beasts, have bones of rock and iron, and nerves of gold for better conductivity over long distances.*
They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.
*Not rock and iron in their dead form, as they are now, but living rock and iron. The dwarfs have quite an inventive mythology about minerals.
Citater
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Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply."
He wasn't strictly aware of it, but he treated even geography as if he was investigating a crime (did you see who carved out the valley? Would you recognize that glacier if you saw it again?)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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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 ...
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This novel resonates with me. From Carrot and Angua's storyline to Sybil's surprising soprano solo, there's a lot here about love and sacrifice as well as duty and honor and other kinds of sacrifices. Fun and funny but gut wrenching, too. The thing and the whole of the thing. (