Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8) (Discworld Novels)

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The Watch is in bad condition; they are regarded as a bunch of incompetents who just walk around ringing their bells, and this is mostly true. You spend most of the book trying to figure out who the Supreme Grand Master is and wonder what will happen to the Watch. You can tell that Vimes is there as our Everyman, the emotional touchstone and the 'normal' person that gives us an anchor, because everyone else is just so extreme.

He also skewers the masses’ tendency to blindly accept whoever has the biggest gun (or fire breathing talent). This is one of my favorite Discworld books and one of the best starting points for the Discworld newbies. And this book is our introduction to our cynical (anti)hero, uncompromising, grumpy and terrifyingly sober/knurd ('knurd' as in complete and utter opposite to drunk, beyond simple sobriety) Ankh-Morpork copper with the unsettling tendency to ask uncomfortable questions when others would much rather he didn't. So when Carrot, who was raised by dwarves and actually considers himself to be one, volunteers for duty, everyone is confused.Tapping into such surgical moments of levity it feels like the MCU should take classes from Sir Terry. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Wonse falls to his death after the very literal Carrot hits him with a thrown copy of Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork.

The Archchancellor's rant is a very good approximation of a David Attenborough wildlife programme narration. 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. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. is one of the most popular Discworld books and I have not read it, this makes it the ideal candidate for a reentry into this unique and wonderful series. I've listened to Tony Robinson read the best third of the book, laughed about eleven times and chortled more.

Reduced to almost-nothingness by the corruption in the city, spending his time in the gutter (literally), laughed at by everyone except his two colleagues - the thick but amiable Fred Colon and a disgrace to human race a. So in my (re)view this is what you want in a Sir Terry novel, pathos, love, heroics, honesty, modesty, drunkenness, dragons (big and small), Ankh Morpork, wizards, The Librarian, CMOT Dibbler, The Shades, The Mended Drum and above all humour, lots of humour. Vimes confronts his old schoolmate, the Patrician's Secretary Lupine Wonse, having figured out that he is the Supreme Grand Master, and responsible for the dragon's appearance.

The Librarian helps Vimes to escape and he runs to the aid of Sybil, who has been chosen as the first virgin to be sacrificed. Magari tra una risata e l'altra si ha anche il tempo per riflettere sulla tanta ironia con cui il buon Pratchett condisce la sua pietanza. The book is a laugh fest from beginning to end, I don’t think there is a single page that did not make me at least chuckle. I started with the 23rd book in the series, Carpe Jugulum, and was perfectly fine, other than a tendency to preach the gospel of Discworld Is Flippin' Amazing And You Have To Read These Books, which I'm trying to get under control.The Night Watch is generally seen as both corrupt and incompetent, starts to change with the arrival of idealistic new recruit Carrot Ironfoundersson, a human orphan raised by dwarfish parents. One of the best-known contemporary examples can be found in Tolkien's The Hobbit, where Bard kills the dragon Smaug with a special black arrow.

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.That along with an Orang-utan Librarian reporting the loss of a very important book (aren’t they all) and a spate of mysterious burnings, the Night Watch are going to have to work hard for it to be “12 O’clock and all’s well! A fun and entertaining romp through a twisted fantasy world that will make you laugh, but stealthily remind you of the underdog’s plight against the ridiculous rules of the, well, ruling class.