Feet of clay

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392 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2014 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-227551-6
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OCLC Number:
870088846

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5 stars (1 review)

There's a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in Anti-morpork, a dwarf with attitude and a Golem who begins to think for itself. But for Commander Vines, that's only the start. There's treason in the air - he's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too, and he's not even sure what they dun.

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reviewed Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #19)

NO MASTER

5 stars

As a Jewish person, I don’t know how to feel about the ending.

But then again, Pratchett was notorious for overgeneralizations and ethnic stereotypes in his books (take the whole inverse asians, who travel to Ankh-Morpork to study at the feet of a regular Morporkian housewife or Time Monks from the same book, some examples from forthcoming Jingo). However these overgeneralizations for me hitting just the right left-centrist note to not sound ethnicitist.

That said, if I would had to formulate an outtake of this book in one phrase, I would say “you can’t spell nobility without knob… even if you do”.

Subjects

  • Discworld (Imaginary place)
  • Fiction