Pratchett, Terry -- Snuff
Trust Pratchett, publicly dealing with a terminal illness and
euthanasia issues, to pick the title... But if there's any visible
influence in his writing, it's a sneaking desire to get his minor
characters married off and his minor races un-two-dimensionalized. In
this case it's the goblins, previously known only as "so dimwitted
they collect their own nose-droppings". In this book we (in the person
of Vimes) (and son) (and wife, butler, ... don't neglect the butler)
learn more. It's not as multilayered as it could be, but still solid.
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