Gniffelen, schateren, buikpijn van het lachen. Terry Pratchett is de onbetwiste meester van de fantasy. In dit boek weer een hoofdrol voor Commandeur Flinx en zijn stadswacht. Briljante verhaallijn en woordspelingen. In het Engels nog beter en grappiger dan in het Nederlands. ( )

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Feet of Clay
The humour is there – and Pratchett is famed for it – for all to see, and so that is probably one thing we can overlook easily enough, despite being for many people what makes his works enjoyable.
What made them enjoyable was also how well put together they were. Ideas that you encounter on page one, perhaps as a humorous anecdote, will return again and again as the novel progresses.
The ten dollar word for this is theme.
Playing with this can have a lot of effects. The one Pratchett seems to enjoy the most is irony. This irony can turn the discovering moment of who-dun-its (an essential moment for that genre that has become boring from over use) into something a little more wonderful. Some modern writers have tried to jazz up this moment by riddling their plots with pretzel twists. Pratchett does not do much to cover up his tracks in this respect, he just makes you enjoy those moments more.
Pratchett has found a game he plays well. But if you play with this further and further eventually you may be ‘accused of literature’ – as Pratchett has. ( )

Serviceable, nothing spectacular this time. I find often that I have to work too hard to understand Pratchett's punning, something gets lost in translation. Still, I really like all of the City Watch characters and Vetinari as well, and they are all front and center here. Probably my favorite scene is when Nobbs attends the high class party, that will stay with me for a long time. ( )

Someone's poisoning the Patrician, the golems are revolting and to top it all off a dwarf has joined the Watch. A dwarf who's acting (shock, horror!) like a girl! Vimes is in a flap, Carrot is imperturbable, Nobbs is (much to his dismay) in the aristocracy, and Colon is neck-deep in something distinctly smelly that probably shouldn't be mentioned in polite company.

A very entertaining part of the Discworld City Watch series. ( )