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The City Watch Trilogy: A Discworld Omnibus. (Discworld #8, 15, 19)
Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! (or dwarves or trolls or gargoyles or ...) The City Watch is a bumper volume in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of the Discworld*, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history. GUARDS! GUARDS! Sees some night-time prowler turning (mostly) honest citizens into something...more
Hardcover, 768 pages
Published
November 18th 1999
by Gollancz
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Terry Pratchett is one of the best writers of our time. He's created a universe (OK, more like a world) with such depth and detail that I can't think of another writer who can really get you into his/her books any better. Once you've started reading the books, you'll start to know where the characters are, even before the place is named because you know it's 1 block from the Unseen University or in The Shades. And the City Watch books are the best in the series (with the possible exception of th...more
18/05/10 - Finished Guards! Guards! Loved it. This is the first City Watch book I've read and I initially found that I really didn't like Cpt. Vimes. A drunk manic depressive. It took a while to get into the book because of this, but when he stopped being so morose and got his act together, the whole book became so much better. Love the other guards. Carrot, Colon and Nobby are fabulous characters and I can't wait to find out what happens between Vimes and Lady Ramkin. Great book.
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I have several friends who are absolutely nutty about Discworld. For me, they seem to hold limited appeal. Of course, it may be my own fault for having chosen an omnibus with three at once. They're witty, entertaining books, and the Watch trilogy in particular has some colorful characters (in a good way!), but there's only so much I can take of the very same style and strangely familiar plots before it starts to get old.
Reading Terry Pratchett is like eating cashews. Impossibel to eat just one or just a few. Completely addictive.
Excellent.
Includes GUARDS! GUARDS!, MEN AT ARMS, and FEET OF CLAY.
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Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel,...more
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