A good Discworld book that explores the early lives of City Watch characters Check out my new youtube channel where I show my instant reactions to reading fantasy books seconds after I finish the book. Night Watch is a solid entry into the Discworld universe, but unfortunately for me it rates lower than some of the earlier City Watch books. While it is more thought provoking than the other City Watch books, it doesn't deliver as many laugh out loud moments. Please don't get me wrong, I...

I had forgotten what incredible range Terry Pratchett had as a writer, this addition to the City Watch series set in the Discworld, Night Watch is one of his absolute best, featuring one of my favourite characters, Sam Vimes, who amazingly gets to meet his younger rookie self. As he is chasing a serial killer in the present, only to be facing numerous pitfalls and challenges from the past, after a magical incident that occurs has him travelling back in time with the killer. There is heartbreak, ...

¡Qué gozada! Genial.Releo esta sexta entrega de la saga de los Guardias porque en su día, en ansia viva, lo leí de una de esas traducciones no oficiales de fans. Y ya me gustó, conque ahora, de la mano de una traducción maravillosa, he gozado cual cerdo en un berzal con las ironías, con los sarcasmos, con los guiños insinuados, y hasta con la moralina que permea de forma bien evidente todos los libros del autor.Todo es un disfrute: historia, personajes, ritmo y lenguaje. El final es lo que esper...

Eat more cake when you are that hungry. Stupid mob.Usually, I am no friend of the crime and thriller genre without extreme violence and psychological terror, with skim and scanable character focused investigator plotlines in between, but satires of the genre are definitively my thing, because the stereotypical badass attitude of the detectives is something with huge self satirizing potential. Just as the serial killers, always the same motivations, childhood traumas, preferred methods, just the ...

Terry Pratchett may have been the coolest writer on earth.Certainty one of the coolest.In 1969, Steve Winwood and his band mates in Blind Faith (some little known musicians named Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech) sang these beautiful lyrics in the haunting song Can’t Find My Way Home.“Come down off your throne and leave your body aloneSomebody must changeYou are the reason I've been waiting all these yearsSomebody holds the keyWell, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the timeAnd I'm w...

In one timeline, I read this in 2015 and it was a total miss even though I had an affection for the character of Sam Vines. It quite possibly had to do with an attempt I was making to understand Pratchett and appreciate him as much as his fans do by reading the series in order.In another timeline, 2021 to be exact, I started re-reading with an enthusiastic book buddy, trading off a hyper-Pratchett-esque indy book that was exhausting me with Three Stooges antics and fourth wall-breaking asides. I...

Happy 25th May /Lilac Day, Folks!“Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg.” 🪻🥚‐---‐--------History has gone Rogue, but Samuel Vimes is in hot pursuit and will catch up in the true Terry Pratchett fashion that is spectacular, gripping, hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time in the AWESOMEST DISCWORLD BOOK, EVER! The layers, depth, dimensions, angles, aspects and edges that Pratchett gives to Vimes is beyond amazing and reach their pinnacle in this novel as ...

“Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!” I am still angry at the world for taking Terry Pratchett away from us. I miss him — his razor-sharp wit, his pointed humor, the ridiculous clarity with which he must have seen the world. When I can get lost in the pages of his writing - competent, confident, and simply brilliant - the world becomes pretty tolerable. “Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware th...

My favourite Pratchett novel, but I'm not really sure why.I think that Sam Vimes' being in it definitely helps: I think my favourite "series" in the Discworld novels are the City Watch series (along with the witches of Lancre and Death). His character arc really comes to a head in this one, even though he still has another level to go to in Thud!I also think that time travel being in it also definitely helps. Though not the quantum, metaphysical, zany fun of Thief of Time (though Lu Tze makes an...

While Terry Pratchett is known for the humor in his Discworld series, I enjoy them primarily because-- while on the surface, his books do indeed classify as humor, he also writes these almost painful realities, very human thoughts and incredibly immersive emotions in situations that you generally don't find in most humorous fantasy/sci-fi which tends more towards parody and caricatures. Though, I wouldn’t exactly say that the Discworld series isn't a parody-- because his books are parodies, or s...