acquired* and finished thud! over the weekend. after all these years, i find that on the whole i still enjoy the vimes novels much more than any of the others. by nature of the mystery format they seem so much more coherent and better thought out, and if you don't love nobby and colon and carrot and sybil and vimes and all the rest of them there really isn't any hope for you.

* with great difficulty, i might add. nlb, though shiny, is quite useless when it comes to stocking new pratchetts.