Jared's review
Guards! Guards!: A Discworld Novel (Mass Market Paperback) by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is a comic genius. In this first installment of the "Watch" series in his Discworld (a world not quite entirely unlike our own), we meet Captain Vimes of the Ankh Morpork Night Watch and a selection of his fine men as they face down a fire-breathing dragon with kingly aspirations.
This book has more one-liners than a joke book ("The people united can never be ignited!"), and is significantly funnier. Terry Pratchett also works his genius with situational irony: Nothing prepares a person's gut for the scene with three coppers up on a roof trying to figure out exactly how to achieve a million-to-one chance (since those chances never fail) of killing the dragon. This is perhaps the funniest book I've ever read, with the possible exception of Anguished English.
This book has more one-liners than a joke book ("The people united can never be ignited!"), and is significantly funnier. Terry Pratchett also works his genius with situational irony: Nothing prepares a person's gut for the scene with three coppers up on a roof trying to figure out exactly how to achieve a million-to-one chance (since those chances never fail) of killing the dragon. This is perhaps the funniest book I've ever read, with the possible exception of Anguished English.
