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This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. 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. In 2001 he won the Carnegie Medal for his young adult novel The Amazing. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances.

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

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