Hardcover, 378 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2011 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-61926-4
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4 stars (4 reviews)

"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--

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reviewed Snuff by Terry Pratchett (A Discworld Novel)

Review of 'Snuff' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

If anything I enjoyed it more this time round, although as in many of Terry's works there are bits that seem rushed and give me the feeling he had more to say but maybe was worried that it would make the book too long.

Anyway, it was chilling to read the racism in the light of what is going on today in Britain with Brexit and in the US with Trump. The same phrases, the same casual attitude to a 'lesser' race that the majority just don't understand.

In a way having the goblins have such amazing talents (the idea of the noble savage?) didn't really add to the story as it made you feel that we should like them not because they were thinking beings but because they were talented artists...

The book does feel disjointed at times but it still manages to make you laugh and cry on …

reviewed Snuff by Terry Pratchett (A Discworld Novel)

Review of 'Snuff' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

There is a certain anger to Pratchett's writing that normally is hidden behind the humor of his stories. Snuff is the first book in his Discworld series that made my innards churn at the description of the goblins' plight (which are, of course, heavily inspired by real accounts of slavery and racism through the ages).
The book is technically a send-up on the cozy mystery genre. Commander Vimes goes on a (his first) holiday in the country estate that technically belongs to him, encounters all the "charming" follies of the aristocracy and peasant population of the place, and then is thrown into an investigation into murder and slavery in this oh-so-pleasant little community.
At the same time the watchmen back home also stumble over a terribly mystery connected with goblins.

Well, yes, I think the main problem of this book is, as with other of his later works, that it …

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