Thud!
2 journalers for this copy...
Reserved for the 2010 September Sapphire Challenge.
This is both a funny fantasy novel and a surprisingly sophisticated examination of racial conflict in an ethnically diverse city. Another winner from Terry Pratchett!
Book Description:
Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens -- a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death...with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear -- and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.
This is both a funny fantasy novel and a surprisingly sophisticated examination of racial conflict in an ethnically diverse city. Another winner from Terry Pratchett!
Book Description:
Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens -- a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death...with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear -- and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.
Journal Entry 2 by SheWhoReads at Memorial Park in Athens, Georgia USA on Saturday, September 25, 2010
I left this book on a bench in front of the Memorial Park Swimming Pool.
I read this book about 6 mths ago, but never noticed the tag on the inside! I was just cleaning off my bookshelf! Funny!
I'm a big murder mystery fan, so this book was a little out of my usual realm, but I really enjoyed it!
I'm a big murder mystery fan, so this book was a little out of my usual realm, but I really enjoyed it!
