Anitra F. (anitra) reviewed on + 20 more book reviews
This book seriously prods buttock!
Well, you'll get that joke after you read the book. :) Any of the Discworld books are more enjoyable the more you know about Discworld, including this one. Any of them, including this one, can be enjoyed even if this is your first visit.
At the end of Men at Arms, Sam Vimes, captain of the NightWatch, had quit drinking, made the NightWatch a real police force -- and married into the nobility. Feet of Clay begins with Vimes learning that *he* cannot have a Coat of Arms because one of his ancestors was the man who cut off a mad Emperor's head (and saved the kingdom), and Corporal Nobby Nobbs, who has to carry a certificate signed by the Patrician to testify that he is human (probably) is the long-lost Earl of Ankh and the heir apparent to the throne, which some people want to re-establish. The current head of government, the Patrician, is being poisoned. Someone has killed two harmless old men; that someone appears to be a golem, but golems can only do what they're told. Captain Vimes has to unravel all of this; a police procedural in a flat world that rides on the back of four elephants carried through space by a giant turtle.
Well, you'll get that joke after you read the book. :) Any of the Discworld books are more enjoyable the more you know about Discworld, including this one. Any of them, including this one, can be enjoyed even if this is your first visit.
At the end of Men at Arms, Sam Vimes, captain of the NightWatch, had quit drinking, made the NightWatch a real police force -- and married into the nobility. Feet of Clay begins with Vimes learning that *he* cannot have a Coat of Arms because one of his ancestors was the man who cut off a mad Emperor's head (and saved the kingdom), and Corporal Nobby Nobbs, who has to carry a certificate signed by the Patrician to testify that he is human (probably) is the long-lost Earl of Ankh and the heir apparent to the throne, which some people want to re-establish. The current head of government, the Patrician, is being poisoned. Someone has killed two harmless old men; that someone appears to be a golem, but golems can only do what they're told. Captain Vimes has to unravel all of this; a police procedural in a flat world that rides on the back of four elephants carried through space by a giant turtle.
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