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Title: Night Watch (Fantastic Audio Series) by Terry Pratchett, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison ISBN: 1-57453-534-X Publisher: Audio Literature Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (69 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: tripping over the past
Comment: Once again Terry Pratchett has written a masterpiece. This time it is about the commander of the watch going back in time trying to catch a killer and running into himself as a young copper. Because he has gone back into time, Vimes has to set the past right again or risk damaging the future. The reader gets to meet many of the beloved cast of characters that have emerged from the diskworld series over the last twenty years. The reader meets everyone from Nobby to the Patrician as a young man.
The book is as funny as always although it does have that serious undertone that Pratchett has developed over the last couple of years. He explains the reasons to be honest when everyone else is crooked and some of the bad guys get their comeuppance in the usual ways. This is a great book for the Pratchett fanatic, but not for the new reader because there is too much to miss by not knowing the characters from the earlier books. Read the older ones first and you will love the action in this new one. Highly reccommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth staying up all night to read
Comment: Pratchett's latest Discworld installment neatly ties in the time monks from the previous novel and with his overtly satirical mind he proceeds to delve into quantum physics with a sense of irony that is as subtle as it is brilliant. This time Sam Vimes is our protagonist, the brassed and reluctantly polished watch Commander sidetracked during a routine meeting with Lord Vetinari into a copper-roots level chase across the Unseen University rooftops after a murderer by the name of Carcer. During the storm-tossed chase he falls with Carcer into a rift in the time continuum and finds himself back in time with the villain in Ankh-Morpork just as hise younger self was making his first forays into the Watch. All of which gives Pratchett the perfect excuse to dredge up a whole lot of new characters and still remain in his glorious Discworld capital.
Once Lse-Tsu, the Sweeper, has explained the science behind the events Vimes (now known as John Keel) finds he has four days in which to educate his younger self and locate and take Carcer back with him, all before the revolution. However, he has the major advantage of a)being intelligent, b)knowing all about what should happen. So he inveigles his way into becoming a Nightwatch sergeant-at-arms, promptly shakes up the accepted corruption within its ranks and then sets off on his mission. Fairly quickly he manages to upset the course of history by ensuring the Morphic Street Conspiracy didn't end in a massacre before realising that Captain Swing of the Unmentionables has now recruited Carcer as a sergeant.
We plung headfirst into his efforts to ensure that the Treacle Mine Watch House doesn't get burned in the general looting and his struggle to create a sphere of normality in the revolution to prevent the amount of historical deaths his future self knows happened. He manages to gain revenge on the Unmentionables down in Cable Street, all the whilst keeping his younger self by his side gaining valuable experience. Eventually it all resolves itself in a manner that is truly remarkable and we see a side of an older and more anarchic Ankh-Morpork in the process.
We get to see glorious cameos from younger selves throughout. The ones that stick in the memory are: Vetinari's unfazable younger self as an assassin in training, the street urchin, Nobby Nobbs, Fred Colon and a superb pre-'Cut-Me-Own'Throat' Dibbler. All of which lends itself to a Discworld novel back to its very best. The previous offering tended to flounder a little in the sheer volume of irony and satire at Pratchett's potential disposal and ended up being a trifle blunt, but this volume returns our author to the safe Night Watch which have such brilliant characters. Given the next two also focus on them, it means the latest installments are a must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Crown Jewel of Discworld
Comment: To me Night Watch is one of Terry Pratchett's best works yet. While a little darker then his previous ventures Pratchett demonstrates his remarkable talent of combining humor and poignancy into one incredible mix. His grasp of his characters is to be commended. He knows what he's doing with them and he does it well. One warning though, to those not familiar with the Ankh-Morpork crew(ie.Dibbler,Nobby,Reg Shoe,etc.)should probably read other "City Watch" novels before this one. It is definetley more enjoyable this way. Trust me.
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Title: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 006001315X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Last Hero : A Discworld Fable by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby ISBN: 0060507772 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0060012366 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0061031321 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Truth, The by Terry Pratchett ISBN: 0380818191 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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