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In a quest to escape the reality of 2020 and recapture my youth, I’ve set myself the goal of reading all 41 Discworld novels in one year. Join me on this voyage of discovery which definitely isn’t a complete waste of time. Mild spoilers, probably.
Feet of Clay is the third instalment of the Watch cycle and so far the best.
The first book, Guards! Guards!, essentially sets up what being in the Watch in a fantasy setting would be like and starts the theory that Carrot, a new recruit, is a Chosen One archetype. Men at Arms starts to look more at the politics of Ankh-Morpork and the relationship between the various fantasy races and the relationship between crime and power.
“…it expands on every idea presented in its predecessors in a much clearer, impactful and smart way.”
Feet of Clay has a series of murders being committed by Golems, the poisoning of the Patrician, Sam Vimes (now a lordship and Commander of The Watch) chaffing at his new social position and it expands on every idea presented in its predecessors in a much clearer, impactful and smart way.
The first two books in the sequence feel like police procedurals but are curtailed by the fantasy elements or the plotting…
