The Fifth Elephant
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.45 (948 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0552154237 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 421 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-12-14 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It’s snowing. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Sam Vimes is a man on the run. And there are monsters on his trail .. It’s freezing. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don’t ask)
No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it--philosophically speaking--make a noise? As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it. Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is combined with a real sense of jeopardy that even favorite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels that feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Samuel Vimes. --Roz Kaveney, . As always, the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags--Chekhov,
Abridged version with volume level issues in the recording smalltownslackermom The Fifth Elephant is one of my favorite Discworld novels but, fair warning, this is an abridged version. It is well done - nothing essential is left out of course - but much of Pratchett's funny meanderings are not included. I would not use this or other similar recordings as a first time experience of Discworld. Tony Robinson (Baldrick from the Black Adder BBC series) does wonderful voices. Unfortunately, it seems like these recordings were never normali. Based on a World help up by Four Elephants In this book you get to know about the Legend og the Fifth Elephant. Mostly it seems to be a legend originating from the lands closer to the Ramtops, named Uberwald. The home region of Angua the Werewolf, Cheery the female Dwarf, and Detrius the Troll.A new Lower King ( Head king of the Dwarves ) is about to be elected in Uberwald, and as such Ankh-Morpork needs to be present as it's a major diplomatic occurance. Ankh-Morpork sends some of it's finest peop. EnglishMajor said War is diplomacy by other means. Sam Vimes, Commander of the Watch & sometime Duke of Ankh-Morpork, is sent to Uberwald to handle a tricky dispute between conservative & modern factions of Dwarfs regarding which should govern. Someone has stolen the Scone of Stone, the traditional rock on which the Low King of the Dwarfs must sit when being crowned & handing down judgment. A series of possibly related murders has been committed in Ankh-Morpork. It's up to Vimes, along with his trusty offi