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Loading... Die Nachtwächter. Ein Scheibenwelt-Roman (original 2002; edition 2005)by Terry Pratchett, Andreas Brandhorst (Übersetzer)
Work InformationNight Watch by Terry Pratchett (2002)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. It's so hard to write a good time travel novel. Add in a crazy magical place like Ankh-Morpork and you have yourself a hard job. But of course, Terry Pratchett is up for anything, always, and he has fun while he does it. Fairly certain this man could have written a history of the English language that featured some kind of pun loving ogre with a kitten sized griffin for a sidekick...and it would have made complete sense. I am only sorry that he is not around to do it. ( ) I liked the first 20 pages of so, but the copy I had was misbound. (Bad HarperCollins!) It contained not 1, not 2, but 20+ pages of a contemporary spy thriller. First I thought, "Oh, alternate universe in addition to time travel? Cool." Then I realized that even though the page numbers and fonts matched, the title, author, chapter headings, and page layout did not. Would have kept reading, but I missed the actual time travel part. 2nd review: found a copy with all of its pages. Enjoyed the book.
A fine place to start reading Pratchett if you don't mind a few ''in'' jokes, ''Night Watch'' transcends standard genre fare with its sheer schoolboy humor and characters who reject their own stereotypes. What makes the book intriguing is Pratchett's Chestertonian common-sense morality. While his blunt logic doesn't always equip him to deal with the niceties (at one point, he seems to argue against any controls on gun ownership), it allows him to break through liberal confusions and conservative certainties. Not a side-splitter this time, though broadly amusing and bubbling with wit and wisdom: both an excellent story and a tribute to beat cops everywhere, doing their hair-raising jobs with quiet courage and determination. Stories both trap people in a continuum and console them with images of beginnings and ends. Pratchett is a master storyteller. Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Sam Vimes can't tell what kind of day he's having. One moment he's fighting a ruthless murderer on top of the library of the Unseen University. The next, he's thrown back in time. But, the city's on the brink of revolt, and that killer he was after in the future is with him here in the past, which is now the present. Now all Vimes has to do is figure out how to get back home--but first he has to change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. No library descriptions found.
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