Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett Reviews

I wonder whether Terry Pratchett knew what he was unleashing when he wrote Guards! Guards!, the book which introduced us (properly) to The Watch and the wonderful mis-fits who belong to it. In fact, the characters are so good that I'm going to break with tradition and look at them first in this review. At first glance, they don't appear ...  Read the complete review

The Discworld: A flat planet carried through space on the back of a giant turtle. Where magic is real, but horribly bureaucratised, and monsters roam the lands, but if they are slain by a wandering hero, their Mums come and complain. Guards! Guards! is an important novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, as it marks the introduction of the ...  Read the complete review

This is my favourite of the 25+ books hat make up Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. Situated on top of 4 giant elephants who in turn stand on the back of the great A'Turin, which is none other than a turtle (or a space turtle according to the books). The 8th book in the series, most of the action takes place in a town called ...  Read the complete review

This is the first of a very successful sub-series of Terry Pratchett's Diskworld series of books. The Night Watch of Ankh-Morpork are called upon to rid the city of a dangerous dragon. The only problem is that there are only 4 of them and no one, least of all the dragon, takes them seriously. It's a great tale of love, mystery and dungeons with ...  Read the complete review

This Discworld books are set on a flat, circular world that's carried on the back of four elephants, which stand on the back of a giant turtle called Great A'Tuin. The series is comedy, poking fun at many of the more serious fantasy series out there. This doesn't prevent there being a great deal of depth to the characters and interest in the ...  Read the complete review

The Discworld is a flat, disc like world, carried through space on the back of four giant elephants who are in turn supported by the great space turtle A?Tuin. It?s a land flooded with magic and, like all natural resources, magic is as likely to be used for evil as well as good. Ankh Morpork is the ...  Read the complete review

It is a world saturated with old magic and is populated by strange people, wizards, witches, vampires, dwarves and trolls to name but a few. Anything and anyone can have a place on the Disc and feel right at home. The chances of such a world actually existing are precisely one million to one, but wizards have calculated that such odds occur nine ...  Read the complete review

If you’ve never heard of Terry Pratchett, then you won’t be familiar with a bizarre world in the multiverse called Discworld. The Disc, as its inhabitants know it, is a flat world, perched on the back of four elephants, supported by the giant space turtle Great A’Tuin. It is a world saturated with old magic and is populated by ...  Read the complete review

Sorry - not feeling that inventive with titles today. The book: --------- Well, to start with it's by Terry Pratchett and is available from all good book shops, priced between £4.79 (BOL) and £5.99 (recommended price) it is a great novel and, many consider, Pratchett's best. The Plot: --------- ...  Read the complete review

Terry Pratchett, along with Piers Anthony are, in my opinion, the main authors that can pull this kind of humour off successfully, and in this book, Pratchett got the desired effect from me once again. It is a story of an incompetent group of Watchmen in Ankh-Morpork (Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs), and their ...  Read the complete review

This is the best pratchett book i have read. It is the first book that mentions the watch. It tells the story of how carot came to be in the watch, and what happened when a man tries to get power by somoning a dragon. A friend of mine who has read all of the books maintains that this is the best one, and i have to agree, that ...  Read the complete review

This is the eighth Terry Pratchett book that I have read and I have enjoyed them all! The story builds around the guards from the night watch of Ankh-Morpork, led by their fearless leader Captain Vines (Well not fearless really, drunk mostly, on account of being brung low by a woman!) and the volunteer Carrot (Volunteer are you mad?). ...  Read the complete review

This is the first book of the “Guards!” series in the Discworld, and although it lacks some of the more popular characters that arrive later in the series it still manages to live up to the usual gold standard of Pratchett’s writing. You see there’s this dragon that’s arrived in Ankh-Morpork, well it’s ...  Read the complete review

Ah, the first of the Guards books in the Discworld series, with its introduction to Samuel Vimes and his brave Night Watch men, protecting Ankh-Morpork from crime, Cut-Me-Own-Throat-Dibbler and Dragons.. yes, dragons. Some evil baddie forces a group of incompetent types to summon a dragon to the city and the Night Watch are left to ...  Read the complete review