Feet of Clay

The City Watch of Ankh-Morpork is perplexed by a series of apparently inexplicable crimes, and Lord Vetinari is being slowly poisoned in some unidentifiable way.This is the first story to make real use of golems, although they were briefly mentioned in [b:Interesting Times 386368 Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5) Terry Pratchett https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1332112344l/386368.SY75.jpg 22431183].A female dwarf named Cheery Littlebottom is recruited into the Watch. She turns out to have some expertise in alchemy, although we'd probably call it chemistry.This is a fairly normal Discworld book about the City Watch, it's readable enough, but I don't find much of it actively enjoyable, and it's not memorable. I've read it repeatedly in the past but remembered little of it.Terry Pratchett evidently had a mission to persuade us that every thinking creature capable of communication is a person who deserves human rights and our full sympathy, however weird he/she/it may be. This is commendable, I suppose, but the repetition of this basic theme gets a little tiresome as he extends it to more and more different categories of creatures.Requesting our full sympathy for golems is rather a stretch: although golems appear to think in some way, and are capable of communication, it's not clear how they do any of this, not having brains to do it with. Their functioning remains unexplained.