Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8) (Discworld Novels)

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Apparently from a 19th Century Prime Minister, Lord Robert Stanley, who was a great one for nepotism. Meanwhile Ankh-Morpork’s broken and ineffective City Watch has grown by a quarter with the arrival of Carrot, a six foot six inch Dwarf whose world has been turned upside down at the revelation of his heritage (he’s not really a dwarf.

One reason I only read Terry Pratchett occasionally is that I personally prefer books where humour is a minor element of the story rather than placed at the front and centre. Some famous television/movie dogs fitting this description are Lassie and Rin Tin Tin; horse examples are Champion, Trigger, Silver ("I said posse! It’s a redemption story, which manages to parody your regular fantasy tropes like dragons and palace guards, but also the good old fashioned police story. When you’re 15 pretty much everything you read that’s smarter than you are (most things) is amazing, but what if it wasn’t?

The first of these children's books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. p. 70] "'Do real wizards leap about after a tiny spell and start chanting 'Here we go, here we go, here we go', Brother Watchtower? If you read these first, you will be rightly annoyed by their just-barely-okayness, and spend the rest of your life muttering about how overrated he is.

The Supreme Grand Master has stolen a very important book from the library, from whence he plans to summon a dragon and use its power to get remake Ankh Morpork in his image.But I'll be honest, I'm also reading them so I can postpone reading the final Pratchett novel that came out a little while ago. Tapping into such surgical moments of levity it feels like the MCU should take classes from Sir Terry. p. 19] "'That was where you had to walk on rice paper wasn't it,' said Brother Watchtower conversationally.

In one of the earliest episodes our Shaolin monk-in-training was tasked to walk along a sheet of rice paper without ripping it or leaving a mark. In a sort of reverse formation, this has caused some individual police forces across the USA to adopt it, so that by now the motto has become fairly wide-spread. There are times when cutting away to the result of the matter is hilarious but sometimes I would like to be indulged.a stage play for the amateur stage scripted by Stephen Briggs (1993) (script later published in book form 1997).

I would escape to the Discworld when it all became too much, and I wish I’d had a chance to put that into words for the man himself while he was still with us.In the end, the only thing that makes it possible to wake up in the morning is just a slight deviation from this depressing state of affairs that leads to the understanding and a bit of dignity and doing what's right - even when that's not quite expected.