{"id":189,"date":"2003-01-01T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T00:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=189"},"modified":"2003-01-01T19:26:03","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T00:26:03","slug":"pratchett_terry_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/01\/pratchett_terry_6\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (08) Guards! Guards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I brought Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!<\/cite><\/strong> with me over Christmas because I knew family holidays tend to be somewhat hectic, and re-reading in those circumstances works better than reading. Besides, I’d been meaning to re-read the Watch books after reading Night Watch<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guards! Guards!<\/cite> is the first book about the Watch of Ankh-Morpork, which was once a police force but, at the start of the book, is down to a few ineffective misfits. Then a new recruit arrives, and someone puts the city under threat by summoning a dragon, and the Watch begins to change . . .<\/p>\n

I can now report that while we don’t meet Vetinari’s aunt in the first Watch book, she does get mentioned; Vetinari lacks a daughter whose hand he could offer in marriage as a reward for dragon-slaying, and wonders if an aunt is an acceptable substitute . . . No indication of Vetinari’s age that I saw, which was the other thing I was wondering about.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to see how far Vimes has come, as a character, and also how far he fell from his past-rookie-self of Night Watch<\/cite>. The Patrician’s deliberate weakening of the Watch, prior to Guards! Guards!<\/cite>, also appear in a different light in that context; it will be interesting to re-read the expansion of the Watch and the dynamics of the Patrician’s interactions with Vimes and Carrot. Also, this is just a fun book; not the best Discworld book, but solid and entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I brought Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! with me over Christmas because I knew family holidays tend to be somewhat hectic, and re-reading in those circumstances works better than reading. Besides, I’d been meaning to re-read the Watch books after reading Night Watch. Guards! Guards! is the first book about the Watch of Ankh-Morpork, which was … <\/p>\n

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