One of my favorite discworld novels! If you like this one, you might also like Going Postal! and Making Money.

Has anyone else noticed this? Thomas Pynchon and Terry Pratchett are the same guy! Their concerns are the same, their love of humanity, their understanding of the need for hope and compassion; their delicious word-play is the same. It's the same guy!
Pynchon took 11 years to write his masterpiece, "Against the Day." Why? Because he was ALSO writing a Discworld novel every year. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive, and now we know why! He's really Terry Pratchett.
This is a great novel: touching, hopeful, kind, funny, wise. One of Pratchett's very best, and that means one of the best novels of our time. But why would we expect any less of Pynchon?
I once wondered which of these two authors would win a Nobel prize first. And now I know: both of them, at the same time.

You will read one book in his series and love it and you will read a second book and like it a lot but by the time you get to the third book weather it is "Feet of Clay" or some other book you will have trouble keeping the story lines separate in your mind.

Overall-What you will get in the end is a Chinese food feeling; a book that is and great funny but it is so great and funny that you will remember the humor and word play and not the actual story. Terry Pratchett is a great author and his current situation is a tragedy but that is the way I see it.

sam vimes.
carrot.
anagua.
nobby nobs.
colon.
gaspod.
detritos.
and more new guards to join the fun. some of the most bizzare and funny moments in the series.the fantasy version of a robot revolution.
when i finishd this book, my face hurt from a constant loughter.
terry is a god.

Terry Pratchett's humor is a little strained in this Discworld novel, but I found myself following these characters as though they were real -- not my usual experience in Discworld! Not that the setting is realistic, but the story, with golems and gender-confused dwarves, is underlaid with an exploration of autonomy and humanity that's surprisingly ripe with philosophy. I didn't love the book, but I liked it.