PENGUIN Night Watch: by Terry Pratchett - Paperback

I hadn’t read this in years and had lost my copy so ordered it again, and it was as wonderful as I remembered. One of my favourite STP books, and every re-read brings a newly-noticed detail or reference that I’d missed on the last however many reads. As always with STP, it’s clever, funny, and unputdownable, and none of those adjectives (even the one I thought I’d made up, but Google tells me it’s a real word) do it justice. GNU.

Inizio con le questioni pratiche: il libro é ben stampato, con una bella copertina e non scritto troppo piccolo, sulla stampa proprio niente da dire. C'è anche una mappa di Ankh-Morpork.Il libro in se: io sono assolutamente appassionata di discworld e dei libri di Sir Terry Pratchett, questo é il penultimo libro della serie su Sam Vines. Si può assolutamente leggere senza averne letto altri nella serie, però non ha lo stesso tono di molto libri Discworld, non fa sicuramente ridere quanto altri, eppure mi é piaciuto tantissimo. La storia é incentrata quasi completamente sul personaggio di Sam Vines, quindi se non piace lui, non sarà il vostro libro preferito. É uno dei pochi Discworld che potrebbero essere tranquillamente ambientati altrove, per questo non lo consiglierei come primo passo per entrare in questa serie. Inoltre consiglio anche di iniziare la serie delle guardie dal primo libro (guards!guards!) Per seguire tutti i personaggi e i loro cambiamenti.

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"Night Watch"This book stands out as an interesting change to the up till then series of DiskWorld novels.It focuses on one of the Diskworld's regular characters.."Samuel Vimes", the Chief of the "Watch" in the capital city of Ankh Morpork.In past novels, the references to how great a "copper" Sam Vimes is tends to be more past tense. The current Vimes, is a well to do Lord, a manager and the top of the food chain in the City's police force. He drives a desk most of the time. (between the adventures we get to read about of course)We know he was the best cop in Ankhs history, we saw him take the bedraggled Night Watch and transform it into the respectable force it is today, but we never saw first hand the part about him being this amazing flat foot.We've met him many times before over the course of the DiskWorld series, but this time things are different. The tone and atmosphere are somber from page one.In "Night Watch", we open with an anniversary of an undisclosed to us tragedy that befell the Watch in it's past, many officers were lost, and a quiet ceremony of the surviving officers "who were there on the line" attend,...This is not the typical Disk World Mood. We can sense the building tension long before the true meaning of this event is revealed.Next scene, Vimes is chasing a real bad guy across the roofs of Ankh, and end up on the roof of the Library of the Unseen University,. (where the Wizards hang out) and a calamitous storm combined with the leaking magic from the wizardly books transport him back in time 30 years...Vimes is forced to relive the whole shebang,. but not as himself,.. no he's already there 30 years younger.Now he fills the role of the man that mentored him, who was slain by the perp that went back in time with him, so he ends up mentoring himself, teaching himself to be the best cop in history.O-kay so it's silly fantasy fiction most of the time on Disk World, but this one is really different.Humor is still there, but the tone is very reverential,. I could not help but be convinced that the author has a true close relationship that inspires his reverence of the Police Force.And just getting to see Vimes in action,. as the "legend" was a great.Despite the familiar character names, we have the Diskworlds biggest departure in this Book, and the first time we truly see Vimes at his best.I can recommend this book to any one,. not just fan of the Disk.