Guards! Guards! was really good, ditto with Men at Arms, Feet of Clay was ok, Jingo had some great Leonard De Quirm moments, but The Fifth Elephant would have to be my absolute fav. Vimes as a diplomat! Who can beat that? Soooo many good moments in that book. I love it!
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Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/24/02 7:55 pm) Reply
Re: Fav Guards Book
OKay- we all know that my copy of The Fifth Elephant is falling to pieces from being read too much! I almost have to go and get another one...I'd give it a couple weeks at the most...
I loved all the Guards books, but, 5th Elephant was just...perfect!
Re: Fav Guards Book
Well, I have to say that I really enjoy Feet of Clay. Partly because it has some lovely bits with the Patrician in (although they all do...), but also because of all the different implications in it (such as 'what is life...?') But then I enjoy all of the Guards books. (only 3 months till Night Watch... Yay!)
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Re: Fav Guards Book
Feet of Clay, definitely, for me. I love all of them, but that one was when I really came to love the Guards series (before I was a bit indifferent to them). It was definitely one that TP delved into some philosophical ideas, and I really love when he does that.
~Tsarmina
"Let that be a lesson to all oppressive vegetable sellers." - Plasterer (Guards! Guards!)
*sniffs*
No-one voted for Jingo! Well...that includes me but TFE is currently top of my list. That "What do you know about Bonk?" question from Vetinari had me in stitches.
I also liked the whole axe imbedded in table thing at the end of Feet of Clay.
Re: *sniffs*
Is so hard to choose isn't it? I do love them all- but TFE is still my fav. Soooo many good lines. Vetinari's Bonk comment was definately one of them.
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Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/29/02 7:49 pm) Reply
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I didn't like Jingo as much. It definately had it's moments, but for some reason I just liked the other ones better. Jingo was quite long also, but seeing Lord Rust that mad was SO worth it!
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Jingo had some great Leonard de Quirm moments though. I love Leonard- the inventions names? Too great!
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Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/30/02 3:51 am) Reply
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I enjoyed Jingo from the historical perspective - Pratchett is *not* exaggerating Lord Rust's attitude to 'beastly foreigners'. But it doesn't have enough philosophy to keep me happy for as long as Feet of Clay
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There is another theory which states that this has already happened
Hmm..has to be "Guards"..
TFE is my second favourite...the bit when the Patrician is talking to Vimes about the ambassador at the begining of the book is classic. However I love guards guards because it is the ONLY BOOK in which I like Carrot. I also think the story is really good
Carrot does become alomost too normal in the following books. I definately liked him the best in Guards Guards- the stealing is wrong bit was so funny. "We used to hang them up by the town hall. Sometimes for days and days, they never did it agian" (close enough, don't have the book with me for exact quote).
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Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(8/30/02 12:11 pm) Reply
Re: Hmm..has to be "Guards"..
SPF! Does he or should I say it, still have your TP books?!
I remember why I liked Feet of Clay now! I looved the beginning when they try to assassinate Vimes (not because I want him to die, mind you, he's my favorite)! That's one of my favorite parts ever.
Mrs Grim
Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/30/02 12:21 pm) Reply
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You can tell its an interesting household when your butler is used to sending bills to the Assasins guild for broken windows.
Angry Lord Rust...I'm always just that bit happier when I read about Vimes infuriating people. He's so very good about it.
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I loved that part!!! The one with the swamp dragons? The assasins are great! (ok, that sounds disturbing, like saying how funny death is)
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Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(8/30/02 3:42 pm) Reply
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Yeah the swamp dragons, it's only Vimes that thinks to use the things as weapons...like in Guards! Guards! when he has one under his arm and he ends up threatening a mob in slippers? Priceless.
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Ooooh, that was great too. It was one of those moments when I was laughing hard enough to practicaly fall over. I love the swamp dragons, they sound cute, a bit unstable granted, but cute.
Swamp dragons ...
Might be a little off-topic but ...
Do you remember when in Guards! Guards! Erol and the other dragon flew over the Rim and away from the Disc.
Any ideas what had happened to them?
I can tell you but I want to see if someone has already read "The Last Hero" ...
:P
Btw nice 2 see everyone of you, I'm new here and bla-bla ...
The good news is - we figured out how the wand works. The bad news is - we figured out how the wand works.
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(3/9/03 3:02 pm) Reply
Re: Swamp dragons ...
Unless I'm somewhat mistaken, we don't see Errol or the queen in TLH. Yes we see dragons, but they're..... different.
and btw, welcome, pull up a pew, question the cats parentage. AFAIK we have no crocodiles you should be looking out for.
rob, who really wishes his friend would give him his (signed) copies of TLH and Maurice back
Re: Swamp dragons ...
Yeah, right you are. We don't see them, but we do get hinted that these dragons might be somewhat or somehow... related to those two (offsprings maybe?). Anyway, that's not the idea
I got carried away a little and I'll transfer the discussion in the appropriate topic.
By the way my all-times fav' watch book is Feet of Clay. Why and how - well, first of all cuz it's still much like the ol-time Guards! Guards! and yet it introduces some new and very interesting story-lines. Omnians who do not burn people, but torture their victims with explanatory pamphlets, gargoyles, funny gags and puns and heraldry and Nobby - king???!?, golems that live and think for themselves, Angua contemplations, female dwarf that uses lipstick and wears skirts ...
This book is so revolutionary in some ways, and so much resembling the good-old times Ankh-Morpork, that you can't help loving it.
Of course I do not say that The Fifth Elephant or Jingo are not worth it. On the contrary - but yet Feet of Clay wins the competition - at least it wins my competition.
Edited by: TenThingsIHate at: 3/11/03 5:50:53 pm
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(3/12/03 3:24 pm) Reply
Re: Swamp dragons ...
hmmm... in that case, I look forward to seeing your idea Elsewhere...
interesting that you picked FoC for the new things it introduces.... gargoyles who were mentioned at least as far back as M@A (Cornice-Overlooking-Broadway) and Dorfl was mentioned briefly in Jingo (Sgt Colon: 'you buy sausages off someone for years and it turns out they've got feet of clay' or something)
i'd also say the evolution of Omnianism into somethimg similar to Jehovas Witnesses was fairly logical... its just a shame it caused such havoc with DW history- admittedly the contradiction was solved in ToT, but it would have been nice to have a propper one dimensional timeline.
Incidently, I can't remember which book I voted for originally, but i'd now plump for Night Watch.
Just out of interest where in the world are you 10TIH? and also what are they?
rob, who's just been hit by the worst pop-up ever and now promises never to buy from the mobile company in question
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