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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch #1)
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bookshelves: fantasy-and-magic, humorous, read-again, zz-owned-books, zz-i-book, a-2024-to-read
Aug 29, 2019
bookshelves: fantasy-and-magic, humorous, read-again, zz-owned-books, zz-i-book, a-2024-to-read
Read 2 times. Last read June 22, 2024 to June 27, 2024.
Series Buddy read with Trish 2024 onwards
This is , as I said below, a seriously funny book, and parts are just so Monty Python, and as a child growing up when Python were at their height , they are to me comedy gold.
This book, as I noted, just has so much, with wonderful performances by everyone who appears. I have to give a special nod to the librarian, he is just magnificent. Oh and Carrot, I have to mention him.
Solo Series Read 2019 onwards, unfinished
5 outrageously funny stars ⭐️ and serious contender for my book of the month 🙄
Review to follow on the morrow !
So in my (re)view this is what you want in a Sir Terry novel, pathos, love, heroics, honesty, modesty, drunkenness, dragons (big and small), Ankh Morpork, wizards, The Librarian, CMOT Dibbler, The Shades, The Mended Drum and above all humour, lots of humour.
So this is the first book that deals with the City Watch. A (very) small bunch of misfits (initially 3), led by a man that's given up on life and then joined by a (wonderfully) literal 2 metre tall dwarf (who kept bumping his head in the dwarf mines).
When someone tries to oust the Patrician (Lord Vetinari) from his post as leader of Ankh Morpork, Vimes the leader of the Watch turns to the bottle in his top drawer for help. When this doesn't work after many years he foregoes a wee dram and actually starts investigating a case for the first time in years. With help from a bunch of swamp dragons, Lady Ramkin and the misfits in the "Watch" he tries to sort out who is responsible for the re-introduction of impossibly large dragons; who is behind the introduction of the "new King" and where has Lord Vetinari has gone.
The I.L. dragon has been produced by "The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night" (which was very Python-esque) when the "Thuribles of Destiny" had been chastised. Needless to say there are complications ha ha.
I could go on and on, but it is outrageously funny, fantastically written and just a brilliant novel, so read it yourself and I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
This is , as I said below, a seriously funny book, and parts are just so Monty Python, and as a child growing up when Python were at their height , they are to me comedy gold.
This book, as I noted, just has so much, with wonderful performances by everyone who appears. I have to give a special nod to the librarian, he is just magnificent. Oh and Carrot, I have to mention him.
Solo Series Read 2019 onwards, unfinished
5 outrageously funny stars ⭐️ and serious contender for my book of the month 🙄
Review to follow on the morrow !
So in my (re)view this is what you want in a Sir Terry novel, pathos, love, heroics, honesty, modesty, drunkenness, dragons (big and small), Ankh Morpork, wizards, The Librarian, CMOT Dibbler, The Shades, The Mended Drum and above all humour, lots of humour.
So this is the first book that deals with the City Watch. A (very) small bunch of misfits (initially 3), led by a man that's given up on life and then joined by a (wonderfully) literal 2 metre tall dwarf (who kept bumping his head in the dwarf mines).
When someone tries to oust the Patrician (Lord Vetinari) from his post as leader of Ankh Morpork, Vimes the leader of the Watch turns to the bottle in his top drawer for help. When this doesn't work after many years he foregoes a wee dram and actually starts investigating a case for the first time in years. With help from a bunch of swamp dragons, Lady Ramkin and the misfits in the "Watch" he tries to sort out who is responsible for the re-introduction of impossibly large dragons; who is behind the introduction of the "new King" and where has Lord Vetinari has gone.
The I.L. dragon has been produced by "The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night" (which was very Python-esque) when the "Thuribles of Destiny" had been chastised. Needless to say there are complications ha ha.
I could go on and on, but it is outrageously funny, fantastically written and just a brilliant novel, so read it yourself and I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
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Reading Progress
July 24, 2018
– Shelved
July 24, 2018
– Shelved as:
to-read
July 24, 2018
– Shelved as:
fantasy-and-magic
July 24, 2018
– Shelved as:
humorous
July 24, 2018
– Shelved as:
read-again
July 24, 2018
– Shelved as:
zz-owned-books
August 26, 2019
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Started Reading
August 29, 2019
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Finished Reading
June 22, 2024
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Started Reading
June 27, 2024
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Finished Reading
July 8, 2024
– Shelved as:
zz-i-book
July 8, 2024
– Shelved as:
a-2024-to-read
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The dialogues between the Patrician and Vimes have to be the most brilliantly funny I've ever read, though every part of the book was enjoyable. It's a step above the rest.
Martin wrote: "Thanks for your funny review."Did you chastise the Thuribles of Destiny?"
“I spent hours chastising them thuribles,” muttered Brother Dunnykin."
Thanks Martin, after the chastisement, I always tend to divest the Martlets of Reckoning, just to be on the safe side :-)
elpida_la_blue wrote: "The dialogues between the Patrician and Vimes have to be the most brilliantly funny I've ever read, though every part of the book was enjoyable. It's a step above the rest."Thanks Elpida. I have to agree this book was soooo enjoyable, and a step above everything so far. I do love Lady Ramkin :-)
"Did you chastise the Thuribles of Destiny?"
“I spent hours chastising them thuribles,” muttered Brother Dunnykin.