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Contents. Blurb William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering with a suicidal fascination for flash, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.
William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition.
Plot At the start of the story, has been estranged from his wealthy father and makes a living writing an newsletter which is sent out to other cities. The story begins when a group of dwarfs led by arrive in the city with a new invention: a printing press with movable type. With the press set up in a hut behind in Gleam Street, De Worde and the dwarfs begin to create Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, the, with some encouragement.
Meanwhile, the New Firm ( and, a duo of criminals) arrive in the city. They have kidnapped a Vetinari lookalike named, and are charged by the 'Committee to Unelect the Patrician' to frame Vetinari for a murder. They plan to use Charlie to frame the Patrician for attempting to run away with stolen gold, but this nearly fails due to the Patrician's Assassin skills. They improvise by stabbing and pushing Charlie into the hallway to 'confess'. Aided by his new reporter and iconographer, De Worde investigates the embezzlement against the Patrician, annoying the in the process. As it turns out, the criminals made the mistake of letting Vetinari's dog escape, and their assisting lawyer warns them that the Watch will be able to extract information from it, so the New Firm are forced to search for the dog. Meanwhile, on his way back to the press, De Worde discovers that the Guild of Engravers, now the have set up a cheap tabloid paper called the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, full of totally unbelievable (even by standards) stories that a large part of the population seem to take seriously.
In the third edition of the Times, De Worde offers $25 for finding Wuffles. This causes a huge crowd of people to arrive offering a variety of animals, while the New Firm arrive in disguise. They are just about to attack De Worde when Otto takes a picture using 'Dark Light', which as a side effect causes fear and panic among the crowd and a stampede of animals. Mr Pin demands that Slant increase their fee; he and Tulip head back to their base at the De Worde house, where they find Sacharissa Crisplock and take her back with them to the Press. While they wait for De Worde to arrive, a fight breaks out and the machinery catches fire.
Mr Pin and Mr Tulip take refuge in the basement, but boiling lead starts to pour through the ceiling. Pin shoots Tulip with a crossbow, and when he escapes, he attacks De Worde in a fit of rage and gets stabbed with a paper spike.
De Worde discovers a, and by listening through the imp's memory discovers that his father is behind the conspiracy. De Worde confronts his father at his mansion, only to almost be captured and transported away.
He is saved by Otto Chriek, who threatens Lord De Worde with vampiric revenge but ultimately lets him go. Using the New Firm's payment, De Worde buys a new press and unites with the Guild. Vetinari is reinstated as Patrician and informs De Worde that Charlie has decided to take up acting.
The book ends after William and Sacharissa report on saving an old lady from a runaway beer cart. Meanwhile, Mr Tulip repents before and is reincarnated as a woodworm, while Mr Pin is reincarnated as one of the humorously shaped potatoes mentioned in the blurb. Literature One of the themes explored in this book is the role of media in society. The toughest criticism of this is offered by Vetinari at the end of the book: 'How come there is always the same amount of news?'
The two newspapers competing show mainstream journalism, with its heroic abilities, that are sometimes beyond those of the police, and yellow journalism (also known as 'red-top' in Great Britain), with its potential to do damage. 'Red-top papers: such as The Sun, the News of the World, the Sport, the Daily Star, et c, whose mast-heads are a splash of red behind the paper's name. The Daily Mirror used to be a black-top until it was bought by Robert Maxwell, who turned the masthead red and drove the paper down-market and de-intellectualised it. What had formerly been a respectable middle-market newspaper of centre-left opinion has never recovered and is still a pale ghost of what it once was. The is also referenced at several points:.
The New Firm enter the city through the Water Gate. The Committee to Un-elect the Patrician is a clear parody of the, although Vetinari is not elected. Gaspode's alias, 'Deep Bone' comes from, the anonymous informer who leaked information to the Press. Gaspode meets De Worde by the multi-storey stable block, the Discworld equivalent of a multi-storey car park where Deep Throat met reporters in secret. The Disorganiser which reveals Lord De Worde. Nixon originally denied the allegations he faced but was exposed after taped conversations were discovered, revealing him to be in charge.
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Publication date 2000 Awards Came 193rd in. The Truth is a by British writer, the twenty-fifth book in his series, published in 2000. The book features the coming of to, and the founding of the 's first newspaper by, as he invents investigative journalism with the help of his reporter. The two investigate the charges of embezzlement and attempted murder against, and help vindicate him. The characters also appear in this novel, but have limited roles and are seen mainly from de Worde's perspective. Also puts in an appearance.
Contents. Plot William de Worde is the of an influential Ankh-Morpork family, scraping out a humble lifestyle as a common scribe and making extra pocket money by producing a newsletter for foreign notables. Meanwhile, a conspiracy is afoot in the city to depose the Patrician, Lord Vetinari. The wealthy and powerful (but anonymous) Committee to Unelect the Patrician hire Mr.
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Tulip, a pair of villainous mercenaries from outside Ankh-Morpork known as the New Firm, to frame Vetinari with a staged embezzlement. Pin and Tulip manage to catch off-guard the normally impassible Patrician with Charlie, a witless Vetinari look-alike that they had previously kidnapped and forced to collaborate. The plan starts going south, though, when, Vetinari's clerk returns in middle of the scene and the New Firm is forced to stab him and render Vetinari unconscious, hoping to also frame him for murder; their efforts are hampered by Lord Vetinari’s prized, Wuffles, who manages to escape, not before having bitten Mr.
William makes the mistake of advertising a reward for information leading to Wuffles' recovery. Realising that the job is much harder than their employers had initially suggested, the New Firm decides to skip town, not without extorting from their employers's zombie lawyer and representative their promised payment and a big 'bonus' in jewels, using compromising previous voice recordings captured with a Mk II. An anonymous tipster named ' (actually, the talking dog who operates as the brains of the beggar crew who sell the Times) helps William track down Wuffles and 'translate' his testimony, giving William the last pieces of the puzzle. In the meantime, Sacharissa accidentally discovers the New Firm’s hideout in William’s own family manor and is captured by the pair of thugs —who had returned to dispose of Charlie. They head back to the Times hoping to exchange her for Wuffles and then, silence all witnesses. In the ensuing struggle a lamp explodes and the Times' offices catch fire.
William and the others manage to escape outside while Pin and Tulip hide in the cellar. Hot melted lead from the destroyed printing press leaks down on them through the roof, and Pin resorts to murdering his partner so that he can save himself by standing on the much larger man’s corpse. Pin, now only partially sane, emerges from the cellars and attacks William once the fire is out, only to be killed when he is impaled on the memo spike from William’s desk. From the criminal's body, William retrieves the fortune in jewels, the dis-organiser, and the last bit of evidence: Wuffles' bite marks on Pin's leg. However, with the press and office destroyed, it seems like the Times will not be able to go live with their break-out reportage in time. The liberal application of a crossbow wielded by a daring Saccharisa, dwarven axes, bribery in jewels, and Otto’s sense of dramatic atmosphere helps the crew “borrow” one of the Inquirer’s presses for the evening. The big story breaks the next day and Lord Vetinari’s name is cleared just before a new, Guild-controlled Patrician would have seized power.
The New Firm, meanwhile, discuss the finer points of, and who does and does not merit it, with. After the recordings on the dis-organiser help William discover the identity of the man behind the Committee to Unelect —his own estranged father, Lord de Worde, he decides to confront him. A tense argument, blackmail with the threaten of exposure, a life's worth fortune in jewels and the less-than-tender ministrations of Otto fail to intimidate De Worde into leave the city in exile as William demands. However, after learning that his machinations nearly ended killing his own son, he admits defeat and walks away. In the end William is ambivalent about the new and unexpected role of the free press in his life and in the world, but resolves that someone must tell the public the truth about what goes on in the city, even if the public doesn't want to hear it. The Times comes to be recognized, if not exactly welcomed, by the powers that be in the city, and William and Sacharissa make plans to expand even further, hiring new staff, establishing offices in other cities, and hopefully one day squeezing in time for a date in between deadlines.
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Reception At the, judged that Pratchett's decision to present the novel from William's viewpoint 'infused (it) with a freshness that has been lacking from many of Pratchett's (then-)recent books'. Called it 'technically a fantasy novel, but an unconventional one. And a funny one - the laugh-out-loud kind of funny that comes along all too infrequently,' stating that Pratchett was a 'master at wordplay' and that the novel was full of 'striking example(s) of linguistic gymnastics'. Described it as an 'excellently plotted tale of mystery and murder' and 'an hilarious take on the newspaper business', faulting only that the book's title was 'descriptive' but insufficiently 'fun'. Considered it 'Pratchett's best one yet', and noted parodic similarities to and. Observed that it 'combines humor and political satire to great effect' and compared it to the work of, but felt that it relied too strongly on, that there was insufficient closure to some of the plot threads, and that 'some of the dialogue tries too hard to be witty', ultimately concluding that although it may be 'quite unfair to set Pratchett to higher standards than other authors', the quality of work he produced would naturally lead readers to have heightened expectations.
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