commandervimes

Thud! | Terry Pratchett

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Love Sam Vimes 😆 I wish someone would adapt City Watch into a TV series. This got #doublespin done early in March, which is good cos my #bookspin choice is 1100 pages long 🤯

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! And good luck! 😂 2d

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Robotswithpersonality

The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett

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Better every time. I love rereading Discworld books, I just feel I grow to appreciate the story and the writing and the world that much more each time. It's part of the City Watch collection, featuring Sam Vimes and a the usual suspects and so it's a favourite, but it's also spectacular as a work on its own. The gender politics, and the regular politics, the contrast of civilization and savagery, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? and questioning what qualifies as either, the first real inklings of the dark side of Sam Vimes forever held in check, the commentary on the darkness that comes from humanity, how werewolves can be worse because of the man rather than the wolf, the nature and importance of symbols and symbolic gestures, the different ways to be a guard or police force, the corrupting influence of power, 2w

Robotswithpersonality 3/3 the importance of unions, the tragic fallout of narrow-minded tradition and the body count that self-hatred can yield. It sounds, and in may ways is, deadly serious and deeply moving, but it's Terry Pratchett so there is humour around most corners and a warmth, the chance for change and good choices always. ♥️
⚠️animal death, misogyny 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett

Vimes.™

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gossamerchild

Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett

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I forgot how much this book rocks. Vimes is such an intriguing, hilarious character, and Lady Sybil...ADORE her. Everything about this book just shocks the hell out of me. Considering when it was published, Pratchett's stance on transgender rights is fucking fabulous. I don't think I caught that the first time I read this. People underestimate the ability of SFF to make a goddamn statement, even if it is “only“ genre fiction. ⬇

gossamerchild Sorry, I get a little sweary (no, autocorrect, I did NOT mean “sweaty“) when I'm feeling passionate, and intellectual snobbery and transphobia PISS ME RIGHT THE FUCK OFF.

Anywhoo, fantastic book, highly recommended. #aam #terrypratchett @soubhiville 3mo

Traci1 I have this one on my bookshelf but haven't read it yet. Need to get right on that. 3mo

gossamerchild @Traci1 it's definitely one of the strongest in the series. 3mo

Bookwomble 🩷🩵🤍🩵🩷 3mo

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BookmarkTavern

Thud! | Terry Pratchett

I don‘t have any right now, but I‘ve planned out two.

On the inside of my left forearm, I want to get the Summoning Dark from Terry Prqtchett‘s Thud in red, and then the Guarding Dark in black over the top of it.

And on my right wrist I want to get the word uvumi from Tamora Pierce‘s Emelan books, looking like it‘s written with thread.

#SundayFunday I hope you all have a fantastic day, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

JenniferEgnor I‘ve wanted to get one for a while! A book that is open with its pages standing up, with something like stars or mist rising off of the pages, and it‘ll say ‘Carpe Librum‘. 13mo

BookmarkTavern @JenniferEgnor That sounds lovely! 13mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

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Reread confirms it. Still my favourite book. The one that got me out of a decade long reading slump two years ago, before I'd read any other Discworld books. Having now read all of them, and reread all the City Watch books, I'm overjoyed that it lives up to my memory. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Vimes remains a character who you regularly see thoughtfully consider the challenge to his own assumptions and then do better as a result. Pratchett's writing in his voice is fully developed.

While Thud! does a lot for Vimes, this is the only book that really moves from including Vimes as the head of an ensemble in the City Watch, to being primarily his story with a new supporting cast. 1y

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Reading this book is always bittersweet because I wonder what other adventures we could have had with this character if Terry had had more time. I dearly wish, he had had more time.

Regarding the supporting cast, I also wish we got other books with Willikins the bad ass butler! 1y

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Pragmatic hope, the reality that humans are flawed with the open possibility that they can surprise you in a good way; it feels like the essence of watching Vimes discover new things about the world he thought he knew, and I love it. 1y

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 It's not without its flaws:
Puns around Feeney 's meals and fighting style are as wince worthy as they were the last time I read it.
If the goblins and their denigration and enslavement are a metaphor for the history of racism then Vimes comes dangerously close to a white saviour figure. However if the lesson has to do with animal rights, he doesn't. I think it's up to interpretation.

⚠️speciesism/racism, enslavement 1y

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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

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Sam Vimes proves that he is unable to detach from his work by solving crimes on vacation at his wife's ancestral country house. His growth as a character is really on full display here as he argues for goblins to be considered human.

With this read, I've achieved my goal of reading all the Night Watch Discworld books this year! Prachett fans - which arc should I read next? The wizards? The witches?

#Discworld #ReadingGoals

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Robotswithpersonality

Thud! | Terry Pratchett

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I thought I only had a fondness for the paperback cover as it's the version I originally read from the library, but after I shelled out for the collector's hardback, I realized I actually like the paperback cover more! Oops. Oh well, I love this book enough to own it twice. This reread got right me in the feels! Glad to re-reading Snuff next because right now this and it are neck and neck for my fave Vimes book.

Robotswithpersonality Elaborating on the feels: I think the first time I read Thud! what stood out most was Sam's shouted reading of 'Where's My Cow' in Koom Valley, but this time it was Sybil, trying to convince herself everything was okay moments before Sam's rendition. She's such a rock normally, that realizing that she does take strength from Sam's steadiness, she does understand the sakes and can be very worried, just got to me. Brick, too, had me emotional; I think upon my first read, caught up in the mystery, he felt like an important clue that kept wandering off, but this time it was so clear, how little he'd had anyone to care for him, how Shine saved him, and Detritus taking him under his wing: 🥺. There was a whole 'we need better societal structures so various at risk communities, like those getting addicted to very dangerous drug admixtures, don't fall through the cracks' commentary wandering through this political/historical murder mystery! Which itself was an incredible statement on choosing peace. 👌🏻👏🏻 1y

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Robotswithpersonality

Thud! | Terry Pratchett

The exploratory approach to upholding the law. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Robotswithpersonality

Thud! | Terry Pratchett

Yet again reminded of my love for Sybil. Vimes might be growing in legend among the City Watch officers and the populace at large, to the point that they'd hesitate to say when he messed up, but Sybil will keep him humble. 😁

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