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Night Watch is a brilliant novel that offers far more than just a fun fantasy read. It's a deep and thought-provoking exploration of duty, justice, and the power of individual choices. Pratchett uses the Discworld setting to shine a light on the human condition, with all its flaws and triumphs, making this book one that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page...

Gets better every time I read it. According to Storygraph, this is the third time, once in 2022, 2023 and now 2024. And yes, my tradition of suddenly deciding THIS ONE is my favourite of the Vimes/City Watch books continues as it did when I reread Snuff and Thud. They're just so good.1/2

My reread suggests you need at least a second read to get everything out of this jam-packed book. This feels like a turning point in Vimes' characterization - not simply the building blocks falling into place, but the cohesive nature of how he sees and acts in the world. He has doubts, that's key to his character, but the way he thinks... I now get to solidify whether this, Thud or Snuff is truly my fave of the City Watch books. Onwards!

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📗 Nigh Watch
🖋️ Garth Nix
🎥 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
📺 9-1-1
🎤 Natalie Cole
🎶 No Rain by Blind Melon

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What‘s up lovely #Littens ? I saw an #EnamelPin, I bought it. And now I‘m going to have a cry. Ta! 😂

📚 Well I accidentally skipped some books in the city watch series ...

More of Sam Vimes here and well he‘s changed from GG 🖤🖤🖤

I enjoyed some characters I recognized and some new ones including younger selves ... Nobby, Dibbler, Vetinari, Rosie Palm & Mossy Lane.

I think I love Death but this might be my favorite Discworld book that I‘ve read so far.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👇🏻

Can Captain Sam Vimes protect his own timeline when he‘s thrown back 30 years into the past as a serial killer wreaks havoc?

This is an intense and timely (😅) read. Time travel shenanigans. Revolution. Corruption. And police brutality.

The whole story of Vimes‘s attempts to change the future is a story of enduring hope, even in the face of overwhelming hardship and pushback. And is one of the reasons Vimes is one of my favorites. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

‘That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.

‘It's an old soldiers' song,' he said.

‘Really, sarge? But it's about angels.'

Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with #dirty bits.

#QuotsyMay21

I really liked this one! I always like the City Watch books, but with the added time travel angle and it‘s focus on Sam Vimes and Havelock Vetinari, in both the past and the present, it was better than usual. And Young Nobby was a great bonus!

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Well. That hits close to home 😳

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Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find #NightWatch post & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

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I know this is a well loved book, but this Pick likely falls on the wobblier end for me (and may change after I sleep on it). I just... I don't like the hopelessness around the possibility of revolution. I like the stuff with Vimes being everyone's Dad in the past, but the impossibility of change when he comes from a future where THINGS HAVE CHANGED... I dunno. It's frustrating, I think.
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Real talk, though: what did those men die for? I'm currently feeling unsatisfied.
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I will say, this book is a bit of a hard read now versus when I was 13 with regards to the dialog around "rioting" and how cops are/should be involved.
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Also mildly bummed that the dis-organizer event from Jingo didn't get brought up when Lu Tze was explaining timelines and choices and such to Vimes.
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Gotta say, I don't like "Don't let me detain you" in the mouth of anyone other than Vetinari or Carrot, who learned it from his political bff Vetinari.
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Oh right, this takes place during the climax of Thief of Time! When I first read this I thought there have been another time fracture nearly immediately. To be fair to me, I was 13 or whatever.
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Aww boo, I guess this book doesn't take The Last Hero into account? Surely Ponder and Carrot met? I don't think Carrot would forget Ponder because he's Carrot, and I don't think Ponder would forget Carrot because... he's Carrot.
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#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #NightWatch!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

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Just a friendly reminder that next month we'll be reading #NightWatch! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on April 8th! Woohoo!

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

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“They‘d gone through life being amiably uncertain, until the ultimate certainty had claimed them at the last.” #claim #QuotsyFeb21

“NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.”

Oh Death, how I love you and your quirky bedside manor. Also, now I would like some cake. 🍰

We made it past halfway for #24in48! And third book finished!

I love Discworld, and I love the watch. I thought this was a reread for me, but it turned out not to be, so even better. I love the time travel aspect and the Time Monks. Clever little twists and turns, with a couple of hilarious Death cameos. I‘m about to post my favorite quote, then sleep to rest up for another 12 hours of reading tomorrow 📚❤️!

Has anyone gotten over the recent trailer for Sir Pterrys Night Watch yet? #discworld #pratchettposse

Book 82 - audio

This is the start Week 5 of (at least) 12 for 100% virtual learning for my 3 kids. It's a struggle for all 4 of us.

Im in need of some good reading "comfort food." This book falls into that category for me. It's cozy, I know what's going to happen, and I enjoy letting the words wash over me.

“He never #forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn‘t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart.” #QuotsyJuly20

How do they rise up?

#gnuterrypratchett #bloominglitsy

Look, it took me a while to think of this one, okay?

Discworld May. It counts. I don‘t usually pay attention to when a book is set, seasonally speaking. 🤣

Time Travel. Puns. Revolution. This book has it all. ❤️

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Sam Vimes is transported back several decades and meets up with his earlier self. Many fans put this one high up in their personal ratings, though it's considerably darker than most and certainly won't mean much if you read it out of sequence. Plenty of lines that made me laugh out loud but I found it overall one where Pratchett was perhaps striving a bit too hard for profundity at the expense of the jokes.

“Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that‘s who.”

#QuotsyFeb20 | 12: #Copper

📷: Made with Typorama

Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a #copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up as a smear on the pavement.” #QuotsyFeb20

Almost forgot #adventrecommends day 5

Sir PTerry will probably crop up a few times for me, but I‘m kicking off with Night Watch. Time travel! Serial killers! Revolution! Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

#gratefulreads #characteryouhatetolove
Havelock Vetinari, the Lord Patrician of Ankk-Morpork should be everything I despise, unelected ruler, arch manipulator, calculating politician, trained assassin. He is one of Pratchett's best characters. Some of his exchanges with Vimes are among the best in the Discworld. Night Watch is one of my favourite of his appearances.
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Day 5 of #7covers7days #covercrush

Tagging anybody who wants to play! Post a cover you love every day for a week, no explanation needed, and tag a Litten you think might like to join in!

Book 76 of the year finished Sep 18, audio

Read this one earlier this year but it was up next in my Discworld Bing. Plus this is one of my favorites.

Thumbs up all around.

This could be interesting. "Dormer stars as Sam Vimes, Captain of The Watch, disempowered by a broken society that‘s reduced his department‘s jurisdiction to almost nothing, in the eight-part series, which is co-produced by BBC Studios and Narrativia, the production company founded by Pratchett in 2012 and now run with Pratchett‘s daughter Rhianna and his former business manager Rob Wilkins."

“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.” #Cycle #QuotsyAug19

“... tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.” #Slogan #QuotsyAug19

As my moving date draws nearer (and commencement of semester 2 at uni) I've ploughed through another book: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. Wasn't bad. I've been donating some of my 'read' books to the local 2nd-hand bookshop, but there are so many other 'read' books I've read that I can't let go of! They're filling up my packing boxes! My new place may need to fit a second bookshelf...

Book 42 of the year, finished May 29, audio

Commander Vimes is transported back in time and becomes his own mentor during the battle that takes place on the Glorious 25th of May.

Vimes is probably my favorite character in the Discworld so I always enjoy his stories.

I adore the History Monks. And Sam Vimes, of course.
Remembering the Glorious 25th of May a few days late, and without lilacs. But I do have a hard boiled egg!
#Discworld
#Pratchett

The Glorious 25th of May.

Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg!

“The scent rolled over him. He looked up. Overhead, a lilac tree was in bloom. He stared. Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn‘t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days . . .“

Happy #glorious25thofMay, everyone!

I‘ve been wondering which #Discworld book to re-read but I‘ve just realised the date and suddenly the answer is obvious #theglorious25thofmay #howdotheyriseup #gnuterrypratchett