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Because, because she was yours, all you had, even in her gutters People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. I thought you were someone else. After all, 'Things like that shouldn't be allowed to happen. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing. He, it seems, has an excellent ability of seeing the less-than-pleasant things that make people tick - and still manages to make these sad realizations both side-splittingly and laugh-through-tears funny.

And I adore that. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality.

They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no. This is the beginning of the fascinating and not always so voluntary cooperation between Vimes and the one in power, and it's lovely to read about. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away. The Librarian who knows how to navigate the L-space , that parallel dimension that exists between every library in the world created because of terrifying power of books.

One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

It is a perfect introduction to the world of intelligent humor peppered with allusions to almost everything you can think of and smart conclusions that make you think and even ask the uncomfortable questions of yourself and the society.

It is a lovely way to spend several hours curled up in a chair on a rainy day, mesmerized by Pratchett's wit and wisdom. The audiobook version of it is wonderful, immersing you in the atmosphere of the story incredibly well. For all of it, I give it 5 stars - and, without much further ado embark on the rest on my Ankh Morpork City Watch reread.

Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three or ten minutes into the film to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered.

No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men. The audio is rather good, although I do prefer Stephen Briggs as a narrator. Rest In Peace, Sir Terry. I miss you. View all 30 comments. Mar 07, Mario the lone bookwolf rated it it was amazing Shelves: pratchett-terry. Not necessary to call reinforcement. Here comes the City Watch series, circling around Captain Vimes, a patchwork rug of crime, thriller, and hard boiled detective protagonist characteristics, who goes through one of the longest character transformations, similar to Tiffany Aching.

I am, at the moment, not really a friend of thrillers and the crime genre, but readers strongly invested in such literature might find much more innuendos and connotations. How he reanimates the bumming, dysfunctional, grey area guards and combines his carrot and stick policy with wisdom, gives Ank Morpork hope for the dawn of a new age.

He is using his fine senses, and perfect surveillance state methods, to see trends and uses whatever good or evil methods to stay in power, a truly great Machiavellian sociopath leader. What can be a hotter hobby than dragon breeding and thereby showing the crudeness and indirect woof woof elitism and pure breed racism that once was decent enough for humans too.

Like so many harmless hobbies, the most flow intensive ones can escalate quickly and lead to absorbing most of free social and private life and time. But back to the dragons, these creatures have very different characteristics, depending on use in YA, dark, classic, comedy, setting and are hardly something to make fun of or with. But, what else, Pratchett surrounds them with eccentric characters and implements them as a long time running gag.

And I want to have one too. To reintegrate monarchy in a more or less functional system, some conservatives have the ridiculous plan view spoiler [to use some magic, they think they have in control, which escalates to epic failing and becoming victims instead. Completely not understandable and facepalmy, people have the tribal roots that make them susceptible for admiration of any kind of stupid representative, be it a democratic voted, a self declared, inherited, or couped one.

The metaphor Pratchett uses to show what can happen in such cases should be internalized. The idea of the dissected motifs rocks, highlighting the main real world inspirational elements of fiction and satire is something usually done with so called higher literature, but a much more interesting field in readable literature, as it offers the joy of reading, subtle criticism, and feeling smart all together.

View all 10 comments. This is my favorite Discworld book. I submit that the best way to rate a Discworld book is with a smile meter. As you read, imagine that there is a meter whose arrow jumps when you smile, moves further right when you chuckle and spikes into the red eleven when you laugh out loud. Set in Ankh-Morpork inspi This is my favorite Discworld book.

That is until six foot six dwarf foundling Carrot joins the force as a lance constable. This novel also features dragons, described as only Sir Terry could. Long thought extinct, the draco nobilis was just somewhere else until a group of hooded and cowled miscreants steal a book from the Library and YES! Things do not go as planned and the rest is Pratchett magic.

A MUST read for Discword fans and would actually be a great introduction to the series for any reader. I've usually got two or three books going anyway and I think I'm just always going to be reading a Discworld, they're so much fun and a good source of literary healing on a bad day. Vimes is introduced here, with even some foreshadowing about the kind of hero he will be throughout the series, but also so is Lady Sybil Ramkin.

Pratchett's description of her as a -ahem - full figured woman with enough self assurance to float a warship was a joy to read. We also spend time with Nobby who is something of a peacock after-hours Sergeant Colon and Carrot - who maybe should be the heir apparent to the kingdom of Ankh-Morpork, but is at home in the Watch. I also loved the way Sir Terry wrote the part of the dragon, as an evil telepathic tyrant.

Still my favorite. View all 21 comments. Jun 03, Kevin Kuhn rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy. I am a sucker for English humor, always have been. The good news is that I now have 40 more Discworld books to read. Honest reveal - I think I resisted because people said he was better than Douglas Adams and that rubbed me the wrong way.

They both have layered humor and sneak in some wonderful insights on life. Pratchett deftly takes on all sorts of humor; sarcasm, burlesque, hyperbolic, juvenile, dark, etc. He pokes at the Fantasy genre, breaks writing walls, and displays crafty, crafty wit.

There are quotable quotes on nearly every page. The only thing Pratchett keeps sacred is books and libraries, all else is fair game for biting sarcasm! View all 6 comments. Mar 15, Apatt rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi , fantasy , favorites. At the time of writing, Terry Pratchett passed away about a week ago. Beside making me sad, the news also triggered a sudden urge to read a Discworld book which needed to be satisfied immediately. I haven't read any Terry Pratchett books for years.

I have always liked them but there are just so many books in the world and you know how it is, one thing led to another and somehow they didn't lead back to Sir Terry. I have been doing myself a disservice really. Anyway it is nice to be back in Ankh-Morpork, the most chaotic city in fantasy fiction.

At the most basic level Guards! The Watch mean are happily doing a crappy job, which basically involve ringing bells at certain times of the night to announce that all is well in the city. It takes the arrival of an extremely honest and straight-laced human orphan raised by dwarves to remind the Watchmen what they are supposed to be; and a huge dragon summoned from another dimension burning up the citizens and half the city to spur them into action.

Art by SharksDen One reason I only read Terry Pratchett occasionally is that I personally prefer books where humour is a minor element of the story rather than placed at the front and centre. After reading Guards! I have to admit this is my misconception of what Pratchett was doing with the Discworld series after the first few straightforward fantasy parody books.

The humour takes centre stage but underneath — not even far underneath — Pratchett was using Discworld as a mirror to explore, lampoon and critique our world with its many ills and injustice. Certainly Guards! These and other serious issues are explored without ever missing a humorous beat. Captain Vimes no idea who the artist is, sorry The characterization of the protagonists and antagonists is also very strong. Captain Vimes is silly and funny yet flawed, sympathetic, honorable and extremely likable.

The formidable Patrician Vetinari is another extremely vivid and lively creation, in a TV adaptation of another Discworld book he is perfectly portrayed by Charles Dance so you can imagine the dry wit and suavity of the man. His method of escaping from captivity in a dungeon is pure evil genius. Sir Terry, you were the best. View all 18 comments. Aug 31, carol. Quite possibly, it is because I had not. Night Watch captain Sam Vines spends most of his days and nights in an alcoholic stupor, but the antics of Carrot in Enforcing Law and Order soon force Vines into involvement.

Meanwhile, a secret society the Elucidated Bethren of the Ebon Night has decided to summon a dragon, intending on overthrowing the Patrician Lord Vetinari and replacing him with an old-fashioned monarchy. And the woman in the vegetable shop, she oppresses me all the time. Clever and funny; a little bit of social commentary with an edge, both are particularly skilled in word games. And honestly, rather tiring.

A book has been taken? Both use the device of the straight man for maximum silliness: The Albatross at Intermission: At the end of the day, certainly fun. Like Python, best enjoyed in short sketches. On the way to the Ministry of Silly Walks View all 16 comments.

Mar 26, Bradley rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy , shelf. Dragons and kings and cross-dressing night watch. What can go wrong? Meet Terry Pratchett, who can turn anything, and I mean, anything, on its head. Decent, law-abiding folk versus the deeply corrupt populace. And don't just ask Mr.

Cut Me Own Throat. He's suspicious. I love all the tropes and the way Pratchett Dragons and kings and cross-dressing night watch. I love all the tropes and the way Pratchett deals with them. The whole novel is tongue-in-cheek and it's a slight bit more delightful IMHO than all the rest of the novels that came before it.

Indeed, it's this one that sets the tone for all the rest. And so the transformation of Ankh-Morpork commences. View all 7 comments. Noble dragons!

Q: Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. So this is the first book that deals with the City Watch. A very small bunch of misfits initially 3 , led by a man that's given up on life and then joined by a wonderfully literal 2 metre tall dwarf who kept bumping his head in the dwarf mines.

When someone tries to oust the Patrician Lord Vetinari from his post as leader of Ankh Morpork, Vimes the leader of the Watch turns to the bottle in his top drawer for help. When this doesn't work after many years he foregoes a wee dram and actually starts investigating a case for the first time in years.

With help from a bunch of swamp dragons, Lady Ramkin and the misfits in the "Watch" he tries to sort out who is responsible for the re-introduction of impossibly large dragons; who is behind the introduction of the "new King" and where has Lord Vetinari has gone. The I. Needless to say there are complications ha ha. I could go on and on, but it is outrageously funny, fantastically written and just a brilliant novel, so read it yourself and I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

View all 4 comments. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up. If you want to learn to love one of the funniest authors of our time, pick up this book.

You won't regret it. Courtesy of Jen's mini reviews Since I haven't had time to read much and reviewing old books I loved. View all 8 comments. May 26, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: magic , fiction , humor , british , literature , 20th-century , comedy , fantasy , young-adult.

The story follows a plot by a secret brotherhood, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, to overthrow the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and install a puppet king, under the control of the Supreme Grand Master.

Using a stolen magic book, they summon a dragon to strike fear into the people of Ankh-Morpor Guards! Using a stolen magic book, they summon a dragon to strike fear into the people of Ankh-Morpork.

Once a suitable state of terror and panic has been created, the Supreme Grand Master proposes to put forth an "heir" to the throne, who will slay the dragon and rid the city of tyranny. It is the task of the Night Watch — Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and new volunteer Carrot Ironfoundersson — to stop them, with some help from the Librarian of the Unseen University, an orangutan trying to get the stolen book back.

The Watch is generally regarded as a bunch of incompetents who walk around ringing their bells without accomplishing anything, which is largely accurate. Carrot's arrival changes this; Whereas the existing officers are either cynical, incompetent, mildly crooked or all three, Carrot is honest, straightforward and idealistic.

Additionally, he is 6'6" tall and enormously strong. Having memorized the Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork, on his first day he tries to arrest the head of the Thieves' Guild for theft the Thieves' Guild is permitted a quota of legally licensed thieving, a concept that the book of ancient Laws does not take into account. Brought up as a dwarf — dwarves are a literal, dutiful people — Carrot has an absolute dedication and conscientiousness that unnerve his colleagues who view them as bordering on the suicidal in the face of the reality of Ankh-Morpork life.

Carrot's policing style is reminiscent of traditional idealized portrayals of British police, but astoundingly, it actually seems to work. View 2 comments.

Oct 30, Melindam rated it it was amazing Shelves: uno-colour-cover , ttdiscworld , discworld , books-and-or-libraries , favourites. The first book where Captain Vimes and I met back in , though I did not know then that I would take him as my literary husband later on. This eighth Discworld novel was a delight! I hadn't known the Night Watch until now and couldn't imagine loving any character as much as Granny Weatherwax but there we are. Sam Vimes as well as his ragtag band of misfits Sgt.

Dragons, even on the Disc, are supposed to be extinct. Well, the reader is informed that they simply went to a different This eighth Discworld novel was a delight! Well, the reader is informed that they simply went to a different place. However, some magic from a very weird secret society weirder than usual brought one back onto the Disc in order for it to carry out a stereotypical true-heir-arrives-just-in-the-knick-of-time con - which, of course, goes all wrong ending with view spoiler [the dragon becoming the King eventually hide spoiler ].

It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Captain Sam Vimes of the city's ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It's enough to drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time, something is different - the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don't fully understand, and they're about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city.

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