Snuff Release
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From the Amazon site, posted on another forum:
The new Discworld novel from the master sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder, and is Terry Pratchett's fiftieth book.
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…
Someone described it as Vimes goes to Midsomer!
The new Discworld novel from the master sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder, and is Terry Pratchett's fiftieth book.
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…
Someone described it as Vimes goes to Midsomer!
I hate the Tube...
*shudder*
It may be efficient, but seriously, it's not a good place to be on when you're an Aspie with personal space issues. I very nearly freaked out many a time when I was packed in like a sardine in the Tube. Like as in started flailing out and hitting anyone nearby freaking out. Seriously.
Still, I navigated the Tube with more ease than my fellow traveller during that trip. I can read a Tube map and correlate it with a London map so easily it isn't funny.
*shudder*
It may be efficient, but seriously, it's not a good place to be on when you're an Aspie with personal space issues. I very nearly freaked out many a time when I was packed in like a sardine in the Tube. Like as in started flailing out and hitting anyone nearby freaking out. Seriously.
Still, I navigated the Tube with more ease than my fellow traveller during that trip. I can read a Tube map and correlate it with a London map so easily it isn't funny.
poohcarrot said:
Um...is it difficult to navigate the tube? I always thought it was easy, because there are maps with the station names in alphabetical order and they tell you where you want to go. Plus having the ability to speak and read English is a definite bonus.
I always thought it was easy, because there are maps with the station names in alphabetical order and they tell you where you want to go. Plus having the ability to speak and read English is a definite bonus.
I've never had any trouble navigating the tube although these days I walk everywhere if I'm staying in central London. Its generally just as quick and much more comfortable as most stations are a lot closer to each other than many people realize (Leicester Square to Covent Garden on the Picadilly Line, for example, is only 0.16 miles and is one of the most popular routes with the tourists). All you need is an A to Z book and you get to see the sights as well.
On the subject of the Tube, here are 50 'INTERESTING' FACTS ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND 8)
On the subject of the Tube, here are 50 'INTERESTING' FACTS ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND 8)
Penfold said:
I've never had any trouble navigating the tube although these days I walk everywhere if I'm staying in central London. Its generally just as quick and much more comfortable as most stations are a lot closer to each other than many people realize (Leicester Square to Covent Garden on the Picadilly Line, for example, is only 0.16 miles and is one of the most popular routes with the tourists). All you need is an A to Z book and you get to see the sights as well.
On the subject of the Tube, here are 50 'INTERESTING' FACTS ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND 8)
On the subject of the Tube, here are 50 'INTERESTING' FACTS ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND 8)
