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Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's legendary Discworld series. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ('noble dragon' for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order - and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power? Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more?… (més)
62. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett series:Discworld Book 8 OPD: 1989 format: 355-page HarperTorch mass market paperback, 2001 edition acquired: 2002? read: Nov 5-15 time reading: 11:05, 1.9 mpp rating: 4½ genre/style: humor/fantasy theme: TBR locations: Discworld about the author: English author born in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire (1948-2015). The UK’s best-selling author of the 1990’s.
A Discworld at its best, when Pratchett was rolling.
As an aside, it struck me how much the intense cleverness and humor built-in slows the pace of these books down. A challenge becomes not how to make it funny, but how to manage the humor. Here he does a lot of stuff to keep it flowing, and it mostly works.
But, to the point, this is one of Discworlds best. Vimes, Carrot, Nobby, Colon and Vertinari are all, I think, introduced. Errol is a wonderful little dragon, and our noble dragon and villain are entertaining too. Pratchett just did everything right here. Humor and charm managed with a well-worked pacing. And scattered little enlightening observations on life. Terrific stuff.
Discworld was wacky for the 1980's and 1990's. It's a sort of specific kind of semi-intelligent kitchen-sink-ish humor. So mainly recommended to anyone who likes that kind of specific sort of wackiness that hasn't already read this.
The new audio version isn't in the goodreads system yet. New audio version is really good. Well acted, modern recording, some music stings where appropriate. As much as I like the old audiobooks they've aged badly. ( )
This was the first Discworld book that I thoroughly enjoyed. Especially the characters were a lot of fun. For example, in my mind the patrician was just a slightly posh version of John Cleese. And dragons exploding unexpectedly are an image I won't forget very soon. ( )
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They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No-one ever asks them if they wanted to.
This book is dedicated to those fine men.
And also to Mike Harrison, Mary Gentle, Neil Gaiman and all the others who assisted with and laughed at the idea of L-space; too bad we never used Schrodinger's Paperback . . .
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This is where the dragons went.
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"Have another drink, not-Corporal Nobby?" said Sergeant Colon unsteadily. "I do not mind if I do, not-Sgt Colon," said Nobby.
-- The joys of working undercover (Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)
The dragon—the dragon—was peering down interestedly over the guttering. Its face alone was taller than a man. Its eyes were the size of very large eyes, colored a smoldering red and filled with an intelligence that had nothing to do with human beings. It was far older, for one thing. It was an intelligence that had already been long basted in guile and marinated in cunning by the time a group of almost-monkeys were wondering whether standing on two legs was a good career move. It wasn’t an intelligence that had any truck with, or even understood, the arts of diplomacy.
"When you really need them the most," he said, "million-to-one chances always crop up. Well-known fact."
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Perhaps the magic would last. Perhaps it wouldn't. But then, what does?
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Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's legendary Discworld series. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ('noble dragon' for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order - and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power? Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more?
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