Feet of Clay
(Discworld # 19)
by Terry Pratchett
humour, fantasy
copyright 1996
read in January 2015
(and at least once, years ago)
rated 8/10: really quite good
I wanted to read (or re-read) a book that I knew I would enjoy. Good choice ! Feet of Clay has must-tell-someone humor, very likeable characters, complex plotting and social commentary.
Really. Quite. Good.
I don't really like the attitude of the Patrician to the Watch Commander. It makes me uncomfortable, perhaps because it is neither changed nor dealt with. Other people get their just rewards or punishments but not the Patrician. Still, that is an essential part of who he is...
What else can I say ?! This is a Discworld book. It's one of the best of the series.
Read it. Enjoy it. Have your social conscience tweaked. Laugh out loud. And be glad for a mostly happy ending.
Read a book and feel better about real life. Or at least, be more aware.
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18feb22: read it again. Enjoyed it again.
And again did not like the Patrician's attitude towards the Watch Commander:-(
"If he had a mind, there was something on it." PG Wodehouse, of a troubled Pongo Twistleton
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Problems ? Solved
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