Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)
Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34) book cover

Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)

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Price
$21.92
Publisher
Doubleday UK
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0857525918
Dimensions
5.39 x 1.57 x 8.03 inches
Weight
1.05 pounds

Description

"Like reading Tolkien but with gags — and good gags too."— The Guardian TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing today. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. He was appointed OBE in 1998. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.

Features & Highlights

  • 'Some people would be asking: whose side are you on? If you're not for us, you're against us. Huh. If you're not an apple, you're a banana'
  • Koom Valley, where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, 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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Smart satire and pointed commentary on prejudice and the game of war

Thud is a board game played in Discworld. The intersection of how this game relates to the real world – the deadly tribal wars between Dwarves and Trolls – as well as the tribal politics reflected within our own world, is funny, painful, smart and a classic example of why Terry Pratchett is read by so many. If more of us would sit down and play board games with those we disagree with, and learn to play the game from their point of view – we may find an easier path through much that ails us.

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