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(4.14) | 271 | "Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." - Publishers Weekly The 31st novel in the Discworld series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. This new recording is narrated by Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace), and Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Carribean). 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. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thud! is the seventh book in the City Watch series.… (more) |
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Him who mountain crush him no
Him who sun him stop him no
Him who hammer him break him no
Him who fire him fear him no
Him who raise him head above him heart
Him diamond
- Translation of troll pictograms found carved on a basalt slab in the deepest level of the Ankh-Morpork treacle mines, in pig-treacle measures estimated at 500,000 years old.  | |
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The first thing Tak did, he wrote himself. | |
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Tak ... does not require we think of him, only that we think, Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses. Treat this as a learning exercise. It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. For the enemy is not Troll, nor it is Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good. I've got to set a good example."
"I'm sure you intend to, Sam, but you look like a horrible warning," And thus we wear down mountains. Water dripping on a stone, dissolving and removing. Changing the shape of the world, one drop at a time. I've seen men die valiantly. There's no future in it. The trouble was, the trolls up in the plaza probably weren't bad trolls, and the dwarfs down in the square probably weren't bad dwarfs, either. People who probably weren't bad could kill you. A wise ruler thinks twice before directing violence against someone because he does not approve of what they say. Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say “we're the good guys” and do bad-guy things. “If you're not with us, you're against us. Huh. If you're not an apple, you're a banana.” 'A cap-brim sewn with sharpened pennies, sir. An ever-present help in times of trouble.' ‘Ye gods, man! You could put someone's eye out with something like that.' ‘With care, sir, yes,' said Willikins, meticulously folding a towel. They shared a moment of silence as Nobby ran this image in the cinema of his imagination and hastily consigned much of it to the cutting-room floor. "Yeah, but your mate Dave says the government always hushes things up, Nobby,” said Fred. “Well, they do.” “Except he always gets to hear about 'em, and he never gets hushed up,” said Fred. “He created me. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen? Me. I watch him. Always.” | |
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▾Book descriptions "Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." - Publishers Weekly The 31st novel in the Discworld series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. This new recording is narrated by Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace), and Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Carribean). 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. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thud! is the seventh book in the City Watch series. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.
But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.
Oh . . . and at six o’clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read ‘Where’s My Cow?’, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.
There are some things you have to do. | |
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