Thud!
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday
Hardcover, pages not given, price not given
Reviewed by Liz Simmonds, on 11 April 2006
How about a one-word review. RAVE.
Not enough? Quite right. If Terry Pratchett can write like this then I
want MORE.
A book should have plot, dialogue, great ideas, stunning one-liners that
can make even the office laugh - out of context.
Yes. Next?
It should be well-hidden and have McGuffins, planted in the open and also
hidden so subtly that it takes you a day or two after you finish the book
that you pick them up in the happy mulling that follows a good book.
Yes. Anything else?
It should have new characters and old friends - this book is not really
for the non-initiate - new plots and scenes, twists and shouts. It should
have -
It has.
One of Terry's top five - Pyramids,
Small Gods, The Truth
and Thief of Time being the others - and I cannot
recommend it too highly. Great.
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