# Thud!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 10, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034 "2005-09-10T23:26:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/1 "2005-09-10T23:26:35Z")
There’s a new discworld novel coming!
And it’s got Vimes in it! (My favourite character)
And it’s called ‘Thud!’
> [@Amazon.co.uk](#):
>
> Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the trolls ambushed the dwarfs. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh…and at six o’clock every day, without fall, with no excuses, he must go home to read ‘Where’s My Cow?’, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/2 "2005-09-10T23:28:50Z")
Huh?
The book that sam must read to his little boy is also available soon on amazon!
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/3 "2005-09-10T23:35:47Z")
Whoopsie. Wrong forum. :smack:
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/4 "2005-09-11T01:00:46Z")
I really do not see a Great Debate here.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/5 "2005-09-11T01:12:52Z")
> [@Lobsang](#):
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> There’s a new discworld novel coming!
> And it’s got Vimes in it! (My favourite character)
> And it’s called ‘Thud!’
WOO-FUCKING-HOO!
Can’t wait. Is it out yet? Is it out yet? Is it out _yet_?
Thanks, **Lobbie**!
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/6 "2005-09-11T02:06:51Z")
I got my copy Thursday. Just starting to read it. 🆒
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### Author:  [@flash\_hobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flash_hobo)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/7 "2005-09-11T02:17:20Z")
Woah!
I thought this wasn’t coming out 'til October. Or Grune.
Awesome.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/8 "2005-09-11T02:41:30Z")
It probably isn’t. I get advance copies of a lot of books. I’m in the SFWA circulating book plan, so I get some books the same time as reviewers do – a few weeks in advance.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/9 "2005-09-11T04:08:09Z")
[Linky.](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385608675/qid=1126412142/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/202-8043959-0388620)
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/10 "2005-09-11T04:22:01Z")
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. 🆒🆒🆒
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/11 "2005-09-11T17:08:41Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> I really do not see a Great Debate here.
Sure there is. Is it gonna be great, or is it gonna be great!!?!?!
I say it’s gonna be great. 🆒
Wooooo!!!
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/12 "2005-09-11T17:13:29Z")
Both of mine are on order from [amazon.co.uk](http://amazon.co.uk). (Hey, I had to get Where’s My Cow, tool) I wonder if there will be much difference between the UK/US versions.
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### Author:  [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/13 "2005-09-11T17:55:08Z")
I’m wondering if it’s best to read Thud! first or Where’s My Cow?
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### Author:  [@flash\_hobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flash_hobo)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/14 "2005-09-11T21:07:36Z")
I’m confused now.
On Amazon (US) and Barnes and Noble it says publish date - September 13.
On the link that was just posted, it says October 1.
When is this book actually going to be in stores?
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### Author:  [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/15 "2005-09-12T12:49:55Z")
Woooooooooo!!! New Pratchett!!!
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### Author:  [@Morelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morelin)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thud/321034/16 "2005-09-12T14:08:09Z")
> [@flash hobo](#):
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> I’m confused now.
>
> On Amazon (US) and Barnes and Noble it says publish date - September 13.
> On the link that was just posted, it says October 1.
>
> When is this book actually going to be in stores?
It’s been in my bookstore for about a week now.