This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. Whether youre totally new to his imaginative works, or youre already a devout Pratchett fan looking for your next adventure, this handy guide will help. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.īut the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. If you’re someone who likes a challenge and sees the Discworld as a glorious mountain to be climbed, then you should probably just start with The Colour Of Magic.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Pratchett managed to make Discworld large enough to include several novels for children, including this one, which follows the nine-year-old witch Tiffany Aching and the tiny.
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