Night Watch

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Terry Pratchett: Night Watch (Spanish language, 2010)

Spanish language

Published March 4, 2010

ISBN:
978-84-01-33738-3
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4 stars (161 reviews)

One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks—though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there's a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an …

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Time travel, barricades and a mix of humor and darkness

5 stars

It's been ages since I read any Discworld, but it seems appropriate that I came back to it with a time travel story involving a rebellion and barricades.

It's an interesting mix of serious and silly, sometimes both at once, often treating serious things as comedy and vice versa. The situation is messy, with good cops, bad cops, really bad cops, time ~cops~ monks, and a rebellion that today's Sam Vimes knows won't accomplish what it hopes to, even if it nominally succeeds. There's plenty of comedy in Vimes mentoring his younger self and trying to clean up the "old" watch just enough to keep history on track, how the ordinary citizens handle the rebellion [2], and yet it can still manage to punch you in the gut when you finally find out what the lilac sprigs in the present are all about.

Night Watch is in the …

Review of 'Night Watch' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Freedom, Truth, Justice, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg!
-- The demands of the Republic of Treacle Street, on the glorious 25th of May.

Since it was just the 25th of May I decided to reread this book. I've read the first in the "guards" series more often, this one less so, but it's still a great book. Featuring Samuel Vimes, now commander of the guard and expecting the birth of his son. Vimes gets tangled up with a killer named Carcer and through an accident of a lightning strike and the Unseen University Library, they both get sent back through time to when young Sam Vimes was a brand new City Watch recruit.

Now Vimes has to catch Carcer before he can truly disrupt the past beyond repair, and ensure that events in the past stay as on-track as possible, so that he has any hope of …

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