Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant: A Novel of Discworld

Pros: Great characters, Stan Vimes in a starring role, excellent plot, good satire
Cons: If you don't have a sense of humour...

Just in case you're not familiar with Terry Pratchett's work (and I recently found out that such peo ...

Pros: Great characters and a lot of funny moments. Detritus rules!
Cons: One subplot grinds the book to a halt whenever it's onscreen

The Fifth Elephant is the latest Discworld book that features the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork, a city on the Disc. The City Watch books have always been my favourite Discworld books, mainly because of the characters. There’s the wonderful character of...

Pros: more of Pratchett's delightful social commentary hidden in a hilarious fantasy story
Cons: Not quite as biting as _The Truth_

Whenever I start taking the fantasy genre too seriously, I turn to Terry Pratchett. Author of the infamous and wacky Discworld novels, Pratchett rarely takes himself seriously and his specialty is poking fun at everything from British culture,...

Pros: vintage Pratchett; revisit old characters; excellent plot
Cons: sometimes leaves characters dangling too long

The Fifth Element is the Terry Pratchett's latest excursion to Discworld, his extraordinarily detailed fantasy world consisting of a huge disc, carried by four elephants, riding on the back of a tortoise, swimming through the heavens. On...

Pros: Great Characters, Cleverly written, great story-book world.
Cons: Very few

A good satire is a truly wonderful thing- and "The Fifth Elephant" is definitley a wonderful thing. The characters are rich, the story line intriguing, and it even has a great end to boot. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good satire- it will...

Pros: ingeniosly layed out and hilariously funny
Cons: It made my sides ache

Pros: Easy Fun and Entertaining Read.
Cons: Slow in places.

Many people like to wax philosophical about how Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series has become less now than it was at its birth. Well this opinion isn’t like that. If you know about the Discworld and enjoy reading about it chances are you are going to...

Pros: Exciting parts, well-written, funny
Cons: Slow moving, characters mediocre

Terry Pratchett needs to take a long vacation from the Discworld novels. Starting with Maskerade, the quality of his books had a marked drop. Sure, it was good to see Rincewind back in The Last Continent, but Carpe Jugulum was a remake of Lords and...

Pros: Fast, funny, engaging read.
Cons: Thin plot sometimes shows, sometimes gets too serious.

What, exactly, is The Fifth Elephant? 

Well, in Terry Pratchett's skewed universe of the Discworld, it's one of the great legends, a possible truth, a MacGuffin, and probably one of those things that is the Thing, and All Of The Thing.  It is referred...

Pros: Decent book, entertaining, not his best - but still good
Cons: Not a good place to start reading Diskworld

Pratchett's work is always fun to read - some more fun than others maybe - but good, entertainment never the less.

Vimes is one of my favourite characters and this is HIS BOOK!

In the fifth Elephant we have the pragmatic...