Feet of Clay
Nineteenth in the Discworld universe and third entry of the City Watch series, this novel follows Captain Carrot, Commander Vimes, and the rest of the Night Watch as they attempt to unravel the mystery of who poisoned Lord Vetinari the Patrician.
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- Colour of Magic sets up the Disc, and how it works, after that you can do any of them.
Fundamentally do you like, wizards, witches, guards, death, or the chancer (moist Von lipwig) ?
I say this because the whole set is basically split up into those themes.
Personally, my favourite is Feet Of Clay.
However, if pinned down, I will always say, read them in the order they were published, as is true for all book sets.
- Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
This Book is Full of Spiders::: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong
- Since no one has mentioned it so far, I recommend the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. This year, I finished (numbers in Discworld order, annotated by the series):
9. Eric [Rincewind]
10. Moving Pictures [Independent]
12. Witches Abroad [Witches]
18. Maskerade [Witches]
19. Feet of clay [The City Watch]
23. Carpe Jugulum [Witches]
32. A Hat Full of Sky [Tiffany Aching]
37. Unseen Academicals [Wizards]
38. I Shall Wear Midnight [Tiffany Aching]
Brilliant series, highly recommended. Whenever I feel down, I re-read one of the Witches series - I spot something I never noticed before - an immediate mood-booster!
- Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
(re-reading) Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
(re-reading) Invitation to Forth by Harry Katzan Jr
(reading to my son) Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, Der Kleine Peter in der Katzenstadt, An Caisteal fòn Mhuir.
Got quite a lot going on at the moment, really, in terms of books.
- "Feet of Clay", his book about golems written in 1996, was about AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feet_of_Clay_(novel)
- I asked Google Gemini for book sources, got this: "The Vetinari Clock originates from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books, specifically appearing in the waiting room of Lord Vetinari, a recurring character. It is first described in Feet of Clay and also features in Going Postal, where its purpose is to psychologically unsettle visitors by ticking irregularly while still maintaining accurate time"
