Guards! Guards!

Audio cassette, 3 pages

English language

Published March 11, 2000 by Trafalgar Square Publishing.

ISBN:
978-0-552-14012-6
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OCLC Number:
655015829

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4 stars (259 reviews)

15 editions

reviewed Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #8)

The story is absolutely amazing and, yet again, investigation of civil compliance with the oppression and the nature of evil

5 stars

Recently I had a chat with my friend from China about moral relativism and absolute evil. There I said, perhaps verbatim, "there is no 100% right things, but there are 100% wrong things".

For Pratchett's Patrician, the statement is even stronger. There are no right things at all:

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people,” said the man. “You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”

He waved his thin hand toward the city and walked over to the window.

“A great rolling sea of evil,” he said, almost proprietorially. “Shallower in some places, of course, but deeper, oh, so much deeper in others. But people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this …

Review of 'Guards! guards!' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Most surprising read of the year so far for me. I've heard folks sing this book's praises for years, often as they lament that I started my Discworld journey with "The Colour of Magic".

"The books get so much better!"

"Just wait!"

But... I only grudgingly like this book. Pratchett's wit is there for sure, with some fine wordplay and memorable imagery. But I'm used to having some other elements that offset the dry cynicism: Rincewind's bumbling, Granny Weatherwax's stern but good-hearted one-liners, the hilarity of the Nac Mac Feegle. This book just feels full of people who hate themselves, living in a city that hates itself. It's the ugliness of the news delivered with the resigned, cynical snark of the internet age.

I suspect I'll steer clear of the City Watch storyline in the near future at least, and hope that this is just a bump in my otherwise …

Review of 'Guards! guards!' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Pratchett never diappoints. This is a fun and fast paced book that flips the stereotypes on dragons, dwarves and guards. It is funny and easy to read, but also strangely profound and filled with revelations about human nature and friendship and love.
But that's Terry Pratchett, always a master of his craft.

Review of 'Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novel S.)' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

The Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night is a secret organisation that plans to overthrow the Patrician and install a king of their choosing; a puppet under the control of the Supreme Grand Master. Using a stolen magic book to summon a dragon on the people of Ankh-Morpork, the plan is to slay the dragon, rid the city of its tyranny and have their hero take the throne.

Guards! Guards! attempts to parody Hard-Boiled and Noir novels with elements of police procedurals but there is one thing that really doesn’t match this style. Guards! Guards! is writing in third person with an omniscient and reliable narrator, this really seems weird since the style of novel it is trying to parody is often first person and unreliable. I’m not sure if it is the fact that all Terry Pratchett novels are written in the same …

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy - Series
  • Abridged Audio - Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy

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