I've just started reading it ! Well, it has a lot of Vimes, and I get slightly bored when that happens, but it looks good, of course. Terry's stuff is always a cut above most other stuff :)
Don't want to spoil it for you, but I will say that Pterry isn't the brash young(-ish) man who threw everything he could think of into The Colour of Magic, thinking it would be a one-shot. There's been a lot of mud down the River Ankh since those days. But then, I'm not the young(-ish) woman who laughed out loud at it and fell instantly in love with the Disc World, either.
Living to old age is tiring, damn it. Unless one has Granny Weatherwax's stamina, or Queen Magrat's ladies in waiting - or Nanny Ogg's daughters and daughters-in-law - to look after one.
Snuff is a bit more staid and serious than the early books, but it's still set in the universe I love, with characters I love, and more laughs than most fantasy novels. I found it worth my while, and I hope you'll find it so too.
Oh you couldn't spoil it even if you said something/s. Actually, I like to know what I'm going to be reading/seeing. I've read around 2/5 by now - I'm going slow on this one - and it looks fine. Just that mostly Vimes bores me a little. I do need DEATH, Vetinari or Granny around :)
I don't like that title, though, especially having watched '8 mm' sometime back.
Yes, I agree. I love Sam Vimes, but the early Ankh-Morpork City Watch books had considerably more about the other characters, and consequently moved faster. Snuff does seem to take place more inside his head than any novel except possibly Thud! (although there were other foci there too). It also addresses the fact that he and his cohorts are growing older, and no one is forever.
But there's still lots of action, and Commander Vimes is still The Man!
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I haven't, but my husband has.
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Don't want to spoil it for you, but I will say that Pterry isn't the brash young(-ish) man who threw everything he could think of into The Colour of Magic, thinking it would be a one-shot. There's been a lot of mud down the River Ankh since those days. But then, I'm not the young(-ish) woman who laughed out loud at it and fell instantly in love with the Disc World, either.
Living to old age is tiring, damn it. Unless one has Granny Weatherwax's stamina, or Queen Magrat's ladies in waiting - or Nanny Ogg's daughters and daughters-in-law - to look after one.
Snuff is a bit more staid and serious than the early books, but it's still set in the universe I love, with characters I love, and more laughs than most fantasy novels. I found it worth my while, and I hope you'll find it so too.
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I don't like that title, though, especially having watched '8 mm' sometime back.
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But there's still lots of action, and Commander Vimes is still The Man!
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