Summary: Two people turn out to be dead and the Patrician is being slowly poisoned. It's up to Sam Vimes and his Watchmen (and Watchwomen and Watch dwarves/trolls/gargoyles) to figure out what happened.
Thoughts: Squee! Wonderful book, really. Quite enjoyed it--the mystery, the feminine dwarf sub-plot, the random amusing comments, everything. Even if it is one of those books where you know that something seemingly insignificant is going to turn out to be important. Unless it's just there to be amusing/random/interesting. This is another book that I'm threatening to buy a copy of so I can have it on my bookshelf. I really should make a list somewhere of all those books.
Amusing Quotes: (Yes, I actually thought to write some down this time)
-"People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science <footnote> That is to say, the sort of thing you can use to give something three extra legs and then blow it up </footnote> But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of extremely fashionable chaos and complexity." (p4)
-"You can't shoot servants for putting your shoes the wrong war round, you know. It's too messy. He'll have to learn right from left like the rest of us. And right from wrong, too." (p10)
-"We're all lying in the gutter...But some of us're looking at the stars..." (p176)
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