Guards! Guards! | 
You‘ve got 24 hours with a fictional character of your choice. Choose wisely. ✨
1. Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and The Duke of Ankh.
2. Ours.
3. I desperately want to set Sam Vimes loose on the US Congress.
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Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms.
Purchasing my way through …
DiscWorld: The City Watch Collection
#TerryPratchett ❤️
#FebruaryStats
Books completed:
The Fires of Heaven - 4⭐
The Tempest - 3⭐
Caliban's Hour - 3.75⭐
Guards! Guards! - 4.25⭐
Several People Are Typing - 3.25⭐
Girls' Weekend - 3.5⭐
Helana and the Beast - 3.5⭐
Still reading:
'Salem's Lot
A Touch of Darkness
Lord of Chaos
Vox Machina: Kith & Kin
Total pages read: 1,984
Avg. pages/day: ~71
pick4.25⭐ This was a great break from the darker stories that have seemed to catch my eye lately. I'm a sucker for puns, wordplay, and amusing footnotes, so this book was made for me. This is only my second Discworld book, and my third Pratchett book, but I definitely want to try more after reading this one.
Have to appreciate a book that lets you know what you are in for right from the dedication. 😂
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1.Fantasy is one of my favourite genres,and Pratchett uses the genre to explore the real world so skillfully. An absolute genius.
2.100 years of solitude!I find it completely unreadable.Once in 10 years I begin it,reach a little further before giving up.I've reached 60%,don't plan to try again! Magical realism is just not for me.I can't understand what the writer is trying to say at all.
3.The weekend is that much nearer!
pickThis was a fun romp through Ankh-Morpork, featuring dragons!
4th book finished for the #SuperSeptember readathon. @EadieB @Andrew65
pickThe first book in this series featuring the Night Watch. So much fun!
pick📚 I don‘t feel worthy to review these books.
How about a quote?
“The Patrician didn‘t believe in unnecessary cruelty.*
*While being bang alongside the idea of necessary cruelty, of course.”
This is the 1st book in the City Watch subseries. I thought San Vimes was supposed to be the MC but I got more of Carrot & The Patrician.
Dog-end = cigarette butt
You‘re welcome. I had to look that up.
I look forward to more of these books!!
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“There are many #horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.” #QuotsyMar21
pickFirst book read for #bookspinbingo and it‘s one of my all-time favourite books! A dragon is loose in Ankh-Morpork and Captain Vimes, usually drunk and all-too-aware of how far he has fallen, is not having it. If anyone is going to set fire to his city, it‘s going to be him. It‘s a genuinely funny book and Sir Terry has a lot of fun playing with fantasy tropes but Guards! Guards! is also about integrity and standing up for what you know is right.
Reading my first Terry Pratchett book. After some research I decided to start with "Guards Guards"
Q. What is your favourite TP book and why?
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pickIn all honesty it was quite good, I enjoyed the characters, Lady Ramkin is lovely, as are the other dragon ladies, Carrot is adorable and entirely unversed in the ways of the world, and Captain Vimes is a man who tries (just occasionally) to be a good person in a world not built for one to do so.
I‘d recommend it. So long as you‘re someone who has slightly better focus than I you might even finish it in a reasonable number of days.
“... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.” #food #QuotsyNov20
“These weren‘t encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbows arrow could send it through an innocent bystander 100 yards away rather than the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.”
Gotta love Pratchett‘s no nonsense outlook on weaponry
Y‘all I‘m so excited to get in to this book! I‘ve heard fantastic things and have been waiting for it since I started reading the discworld series
pickBased on this cover, I would have never chosen this book. I know, I know we‘re not supposed to judge books by their covers but I can‘t help it sometimes. Anyway I read this for book club and it was hilarious. I enjoyed all of it!
#IfYouLikeThisMovie #Aliens
Then you‘ll like this comedy where a dragon is overtaking the city and the guard is at a loss on how to stop it!
pickThis book is a very funny, sweet escape from real life. It pokes fun at serious fantasy, but it isn't just a parody. It has a great plot that kept me reading! Good for fans of Monty Python but also fantasy fans who have often cringed at some of the more unrealistic tropes of fantasy books and movies.
pickEvery character introduced in this adventure is just delightful in his or her own way. The plot was twisted in such a fun and silly way, and with every new turn I wanted to know what would happen next. Honestly, it shouldn't have taken me so long to read, but I'm glad I did and can't wait to visit with the City Watch again.
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Day 2, book 2. Or book series.
pickPratchett‘s fantasy world is such a brilliant commentary on our own. So full and rich and easy to get lost in. I‘ve never before come across a piece of fiction which has made me laugh this much or this often.
“A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a book? You think that's worse than murder?"
The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like "What's so bad about genocide?
- my favourite bibliophile, the Librarian of Unseen University for the @vivastory 200000 litfluence celebration. Congrats!
#vivabibliophile
“I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!” #million #QuotsyJan20
pickThe first of the City Watch books follows Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, several dragons, a noblewoman, a secret society, Discworld‘s Librarian, and the Patrician as they attempt to save Ankh-Morpork with varying degrees of success. It‘s a fun romp and I‘m glad I finally got to this #Discworld series, especially with the TV adaptation coming soon.
I am only halfway through this book, but I am already prepared to Have Opinions in this Night Watch adaptation.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/our-first-look-at-the-discworld-tv-show-is-not-what-you-...
But. I will be good and save them for when I‘m done with the books and have seen the show 🙃
#Discworld
“There is something very unexpected about this sword. It isn‘t magical. It hasn‘t got a name. When you wield it you don‘t get a feeling of power, you just get blisters; you could believe it was a sword that had been used so much that it had ceased to be anything other than a quintessential sword, a long piece of #metal with very sharp edges. And it hasn‘t got destiny written all over it. It‘s practically unique, in fact.” #QuotsyNov19
“But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human #dignity. We're all born equal. It makes me sick.”
“Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick,” said Nobby.
“It's Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.”
#QuotsyOct19
pickI loved it. Quick and easy read with bits and pieces woven in from his overall vision of Discworld. So far my favorite of his books I've read so far. Hilarious if you get into his tongue in cheek sense of humor.
“It‘s a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn‘t bad enough, it‘s also a bloody great hot #flying thing.” #QuotsyAug19
I finally got my hubby to start reading #Discworld! So far he‘s read the first two City Watch books, the first Witches book & he‘s about halfway through Wyrd Sisters. He‘s enjoying the books so much I decided to start rereading! I‘m not sure yet if I‘ll reread all the Watch books first, or bounce around between the different threads, or maybe reread in the same order as my husband reads them. At any rate, I‘m looking forward to an #epicreread!
Turned up at the library book sale. Mine mine mine. It‘s a First American Edition. #terrypratchett #discworld #ookbookclub #PratchettPosse
pickBook 57 of the year finished July 21, audio
Captain Vimes! 💗
When a dragon is summoned and starts terrorizing the city, it's up to The Watch to save the city. It's a one in a million chance, but it just might work.
My first #audiowalk yesterday ... think I‘m converted 😀 another planned for today but running errands so not so pretty surroundings
Did I really need another copy? Silly question - it‘s Sam Vimes, of course I did. (And of course it‘s A Pratchett book that puts a stop to my can‘t concentrate long enough to read anything phase...)
Ohhhhhh Captain Vimes is sexy af and Lady Ramkin is BAE.
Listening to this one on Audible, and while you can tell the recording is older, I can already tell it's one of Sir TP's best. The man was clearly a genius....a mad genius...but a genius none the less. Ella, as always, is for attention. Here, she is contemplating the secrets of the universe.
pickI‘m a bit behind the #OokBOokClub here, but I have to say I can definitely see Pratchett‘s wit and wisdom, the thing that made me fall in love with the later Discworld books, really starting to shine through with this installment. It starts out as a silly story, that quickly takes some unexpected twists, delightfully peppered with some great lines that still ring true today.
#PratchettPosse.... only 2 weeks late.🤷♀️
Works for me!
*and I have to say, I love a good footnote! 😉😂
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Maybe that‘s why we have a hard time picturing ourselves as heroes, we don‘t feel like we fit the myth/stereotype enough to go trying to do anything heroic.
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Ugh, so true.... oh Pratchett, you‘re starting to hit your stride with this series as the silly story has such get lines that sneak up on you at odd times....and are still so relevant today.
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The road is paved with good intentions....
And a very important lesson it is...
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