Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Guards! Guards!
Book Review: A great book with great humor
Summary: 5 Stars
Terry Pratchet is a genius, there's no doubt about it. Guards Guards is one of his best books, maybe only rivaled by Small Gods.
Vimes the copper is content lying in the gutters, drinking himself into a drunken stupor every day. But things are starting to happen, things that will force Vimes to pull himself out of his self dug pit of misery. A new recruit is joining the guards under Vimes's command, a recruit who really believes the ideals Vimes threw out a long time ago.
Slowly Vimes starts to realize something is stalking through his city, something that incinerates people and leaves clawed footprints. There's a dragon in his city!
Vimes scampers to solve his problem, wriggling between his guards, the ruler of the city who breathes down his neck, a duchess who takes too much interest in him and alcohol.
Guards Guards is an exciting, funny book who would leave no one indifferent. If you're planning of only buying one book this year, this should be it.
Book Review: An Excellent Start for the City Watch Discworld Novels
Summary: 4 Stars
In my humble opinion, the novels about the city watch are the most consistently excellent subset of the Discworld novels, and well worth reading in order. This is the first, and introduces Vimes, an interesting character destined for great things. This book is also a great introduction to Pratchett's humor; where most fantasy novels would give us impressive, glittering beasts with no grounding in physics, in _Guards! Guards!_ we first meet "real" dragons, the swamp dragons: noisy, gurgling creatures capable of eating anything flammable and producing flame via worrying chemical reactions in their complex, gurgling digestive tracts. Unfortunately this also endows them with an unnerving tendency to explode messily when startled. The "noble dragon," by comparison, summoned by magic, seems rather unreal -- how could a creature that heavy actually fly around? But that is the point: the city watch books are the least magical of the Discworld novels, and this means they are not as outrageously funny as some of the others, but they are the most grounded and convincing satires about _this_ world. We meet Lady Sybil, who will be the great woman behind Vimes, helping him to become a great man, and Carrot, a human raised by dwarves who is an innocent abroad, without prejudices, and an oddly heroic born leader. All together it is quite a mismatched crew, but somehow it all works, and watching the whole crew lurch to life is entrancing.Book Review: Another great Pratchett book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's series on the Discworld--a flat world, supported on the back of four massive elephants riding on the back of a planet-sized turtle, anything hilarious can happen here, and eventually does.
When Carrot, a human raised by dwarves, comes to Anhk-Morpork and proclaims his desire to join the city watch, everyone thinks he's more than a little touched. Well, Carrot has some very clear ideas about right and wrong, and he soon begins to turn his little corner of the city upside down! But, as if that wasn't enough, a secret society is seeking to unleash a dragon on the city so that they can rearrange things to benefit themselves. But, a dragon is a mighty difficult creature to control...some might even say impossible to control.
As always, Terry Pratchett is the master of telling a gripping story, where at time two and more storylines are running simultaneously, all without causing the least bafflement to the reader. I loved the characters, including the various member of the Watch, the dwarves, and...heck, just about all of them!
This is another great Pratchett book, one that I recommend wholeheartedly.
Book Review: Awesome Book with Interesting Characters
Summary: 5 Stars
Terry Pratchett is creative, funny, and entertaining. The characters he creates are curious, yet belieavble mirrors of ourselves or others whom we may have met. The Captain of the Night Watch, Nobby, Carrot, and others interact in ways that are both funny and have you falling in love with the characters. Even the Lord of the City is a villian you can love, watching the man manipulate what happens under his control like a master chess player. All the characters have depth, which is hard to so in such a short story, but Pratchett pulls it off with no problem whatsoeven. Two thumbs and two big toes up for this one!!!!! Well worth the money.Book Review: Best so far...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm working my way through the discworld series and I definitely think this is the funniest so far. Pratchett is completely comfortable and I think it shows.