false 34527 25 In <I>Feet of Clay</I>, Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld--where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett's humor and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world. <I>Feet of Clay</I> is 19th in the series. <I>--Blaise Selby</I> 3312754 book 1996 Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19) total:4677|5:1587|4:1980|3:1030|2:76|1:3| 4677 19105 5752 106 4 4 false false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 13:00:40 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 13:09:19 -0700 2008 Once more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 20:59:32 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 20:18:33 -0800 2007
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I keep returning to the Discworld books over and over – this has to be the fifth or sixth time I’ve read Feet of Clay, at least. Sometimes I take it off the self to read the sto...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 10:41:35 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 04:21:58 -0700 2009 The Colo(u)r Of Magic, but then again, there's very little you can possibly screw up with sword-and-sorcery satire. Also, since this is technically the nineteenth of the Discworld books, it's almost expected that an author...more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 11:56:14 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 08:38:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 22:47:53 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 23:00:22 -0700 2009
A serial killer preys on local merchants. He/she begins, as the rhyme goes, with the butcher, the baker and the the ca...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 19:43:01 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 19:55:15 -0700 2009 Feet of Clay, Vimes has satisfactorily resolved his questions about career and home, Carrot has risen to the post of Captain himself, and most of his fellow guards seem to have settled in. Then the head of the Dwarf Bread Museum (one of Carrot's favorite places in the city) is found beaten to de...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 18:36:21 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 18:36:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 09:59:24 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:44:24 -0700 2009
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In Feet of Clay, Pratchett involves us in a delicious mystery that is solved almost at once byits primary victim -- Havelock Vetinari -- but he leaves it to the intrepid, ploddign Sir samuel Vimes to find the clues and really, really ril...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 23 07:29:59 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 07:35:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 16 17:15:13 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 03 05:21:14 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 16 17:15:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jul 03 05:01:45 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 20 08:11:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 19:10:48 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 11:50:14 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 02 06:48:30 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 00:10:16 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 06:48:30 -0700 2008 --

The real world was far too real to have neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.
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