Night Watch (City Watch, #6) (Discworld, #29)

Name: Night Watch
Rating: 4.23 (11 reviews)

by Terry Pratchett

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Night Watch (City Watch, #6) (Discworld, #29)

by Terry Pratchett

11 ratings • 1 review • 21 shelved

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes'. For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, a defender of the peace, is: Are you with them, or are you against them?

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ISBN13 9780552154307
Publish Date 27 October 2011 (first published 1 November 2002)
Publish Status Out of Print
Out of Print 20 April 2016
Publish Country GB
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint Corgi Books

Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
Pages 480
Language English

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I'm probably not doing this book justice with my rating, but as much as I think the writing is brilliant, it dragged for me badly. I started it thinking it would work for my werewolf square in bingo, and by the time I realised it definitely wasn't (Agula the werewolf is only mentioned and never appears), it was too far in to stop. This is a much deeper, more serious storyline that any of the other Discworld books I've read so far and there's a lot of political philosophy (and a fair amount of quantum physics). It's brilliant political philosophy, but I was expecting werewolves, so Poli-Phi and string theory was more work than I was prepared for. (Also, I'm not a fan of time travel plots.) Still, this is Pratchett and as MT said, for a book I was complaining was hard work to get through, I was laughing out loud an awful lot. Pratchett is a genius at using his words, and the scene involving the ox and the raw ginger had tears coming to my eyes (and likely theirs). So many laugh out loud moments in this one that even though I'm glad it's over, I'm definitely also glad I've read it.