Bookshelf >>The Pratchett Review<<
                          >>with<<
                  >>Andrew Wielochowski<<

In this bi-month's review we focus on: Feet of Clay and Hogfather!

                       >Feet of Clay<

>Feet of Clay was Pratchett's brilliant nineteenth novel. The
stars of it were the Ankh-Morpork City Night Watch.

There have been more murders in Ankh-Morpork, but the clues left
all lead up to a mystery, and mysteries have a horrible habit of
getting bigger if you don't solve them quickly.  The Patrician is
being fed poison somehow and nobody knows how or why. Yet the dose
is such that he does not die, it just stops him doing his duty to
the city. Commander Vimes of the Nightwatch does not like it. He
has the ill Patrician to deal with and mystery.  There is a dead
priest who was found with a scroll between his lips, like he was
having a last cigarette and an old dwarf who was beaten to death
with his own battle bread and nothing human did it, but a Golem
has owned up claiming he did it all. EVERTHING.  But they know he
is lying, it's just they don't know why!

We soon meet up with Wee Mad Arthur the rat-catcher who owns no
guild license, but still has not been caught as such and a new
member of the watch: Cheri Littlebottom nee Cheery Littlebottom
who is about to introduce a new dwarf fad into Ankh and Morpork.
Yet another brilliant novel from the master of comic fantasy, Mr
Terry Pratchett.

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                        >Hogfather<

>Everybody has a price on their head, the assassins understand the
value of life and normally to the very penny. The last thing they
would have expected though was for some clients to pay 3 million
dollars worth of gold into their treasury in exchange for the the
death of The Jolly Fat Man.  Master Teatime is an assassin. The
other assassins and indeed even the head of the assassin's guild
don't like him. It does appear that he seems to enjoy his job, and
the last assassin known to be enjoying the job was killed by
another assassin. But Teatime is a lot different. He sees the
world different, through, you could say a glass eye. He claims to
know how to kill the Hogfather and even says that Death can be
killed.

Susan, who we last met in Soul Music, has now got a job at a grand
house as a Nanny. And she finds her self dragged from the comfort
of bogyman-bashing by the Death of Rats and the Raven. Soon she
is back in her grandfather's footsteps as she ventures forth to
try and get him back. The trail takes her to the Hogfather's old
palace that is now falling down, where she meets the OH God of
Hangovers who just suddenly appeared that morning.  Where is
Death? What has happened to the Hogfather? And why are little
goblins, gods and fairies appearing without permission?  Only by
reading Hogfather will the truth be known.
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>>NEWS FROM THE DISC<<

?UNKNOWN 1998 > Look out for Soul Music on Channel 4?
@~It was on over Christmas ... Sue

NOVEMBER 1998 > The paperback edition of Jingo came out as well as
his new novel Carpe Jugulum. DISCOUNTS in OTTAKAR's:
œ4 off Carpe Jugulum - œ1 off Jingo
Safeways: œ2 off Jingo

RUMOURS > Discworld 3 has been in production for quite a while so
I expect we should hear more from that soon.

Following that he'll probably have one set in Uberwald with the
Watch. (Uberwald is Angua's hometown).  After that possibly he
take a break from Discworld for a while and write others.

"The future's bright, the future's disc-shaped"
- - Andrew Wielochowski
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