Terry Pratchett - Thud!

For a while there, it looked as if I was going to finish reading this entirely in bookstores (mostly the Carlton Borders, though also a bit in Reader's Feast) - I'd made it up to page 150, reading at intervals over the last 6 months or so, before happening on a copy during a flying visit to the local library a few days ago. Anyway, having now been able to read the whole thing in more congenial - ie, less distracting and disconnected - circumstances, I can report that Thud! is another solid entry in the Discworld series...but then again, they all are, aren't they (especially these days)? It's an Ankh-Morpork one, and in particular a Vimes one; the major theme is racial intolerance (as played out amongst the different species of the Disc). Maybe not quite as full as some of the more recent books in the series, but still plenty satisfying, particularly, I think, for existing fans, not only because of the ongoing character development (incremental but discernible) and revisitings, but also for its picking up on general recurring figures from the series (most notably, Koom Valley).