Review
Snuff
by
Terry Pratchett
First
sentences:
The
goblin experience of the world is the cult or perhaps religion of
Unggue. In short, it is a remarkably complex resurrection-based
religion founded on the sanctity of bodily secretions.
Summary:
According
to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been
published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally
acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had
time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all...
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all...
source: Goodreads
My
opinion:
Many years
ago a colleague of my dad came to visit us and brought Terry
Pratchett’s Wyrd Sister. He knew that I loved to read and he adored
the Discworld series so he thought that I needed to be introduced to
this wonderful world – and he was right!
Since then
I religiously collected all the Discworld novels, maps, books dealing
with the Discworld and I even have a planner (which I never used
because he’s just too pretty).
I
recently read Terry Pratchett’s 39th
and latest Discworld novel Snuff and it is as brilliant as the
others. The main character involved is Commander Sam Vimes of the
Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Terry Pratchett’s books mostly star a
specific group of characters like the Witches, the City Watch, Death,
Rincewind or the Wizards of Unseen University. I think Terry
Pratchett is a genius – seriously. He is my number one on my
auto-buy list and until now I devoured and loved all the books I read
by him.
Snuff
now tells the story of Sam Vimes who is forced by his wife and Lord
Vetinari, Ankh-Morpork’s Patrician, to go
on holidays to the countryside. Sam Vimes is not excited because he
is a copper by blood and hates being away from the city and from
crime. Fortunately crime finds him even when he’s on holidays and
together with Wilikins, his faithful manservant, and the local copper
Feeney Upshot, Sam fend for justice and equality of all living
creatures.
Writing a
review for a Discworld novel is pretty hard and I know that I cannot
do them justice. So I will leave it like that and tell you only one
more thing.
If you
like slightly weird but highly entertaining fantastic, science
fiction-y type of books you should check them out. You don’t need
to read the Discworld novels according to the publication dates
because they are all stand-alone novels. I highly recommend starting
either with Wyrd Sisters, Going Postal!, Mort or Guards! Guards!
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