This woman hates the Watch

[author3]

Yesterday I was in the bookshop and I overheard( ) this woman talking to the owner about Discworld
She told him that she had read all the ''Witch'' books and that she started reading the ''Watch'' one and she said they were really boring and that they have put her off reading the rest of the series

I have absoluteley no idea how anyone could hate the Watch so much that it put her off reading the rest of the series

 

[SpideyGirl]

Her loss Author!

 

[author3]

i really wanted to have a very stern talk with her, but then she left the bookshop

 

[Anonymous]

I must admit I stopped reading the watch books after Jingo. Granted I read Nightwatch, but 5thE, Thud and now Snuff don't strike me as interessting. I will try to read Snuff, for the sake of it, but I am not looking forward to it.

There just nothing that really sets the watch-, or better Vimes-, majorly, books apart from the procedurals you have on tv or older police/detectivenovels.

Never understood what people find so neat 'bout Vimes anyway.

 

[meerkat]

It's cos he's one man fighting a world of corruption and injustice. Sometimes losing sometimes winning. Je is a parady of Hill Street Blues and Columbo and many others.

And there is something 'appealing' about him too!

 

[Anonymous]

After Jingo, when was the last time Vimes actually lost at something he tried?

 

[Tonyblack]

You weren't in Germany at the time, were you Author?

 

[Anonymous]

You weren't in Germany at the time, were you Author?

Oh shoo.

 

[high eight]

Yesterday I was in the bookshop and I overheard( ) this woman talking to the owner about Discworld
She told him that she had read all the ''Witch'' books and that she started reading the ''Watch'' one and she said they were really boring and that they have put her off reading the rest of the series

I have absoluteley no idea how anyone could hate the Watch so much that it put her off reading the rest of the series

Probably one of those pagan types who had been recommended the witch books by her local shaman and expected the watch to be more of the same.....

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Perhaps she thought the Watch books were a typo, and a continuation of the Witch books?

 

[Tiffany]

I must admit I stopped reading the watch books after Jingo. Granted I read Nightwatch, but 5thE, Thud and now Snuff don't strike me as interessting. I will try to read Snuff, for the sake of it, but I am not looking forward to it.

There just nothing that really sets the watch-, or better Vimes-, majorly, books apart from the procedurals you have on tv or older police/detectivenovels.

Never understood what people find so neat 'bout Vimes anyway.

Can't say I'm keen on the 'Watch' books either, but I did enjoy 'Snuff'.
I love the 'Witch' books & the 'kids' books.

 

[raisindot]

Boy, thank goodness her first book wasn't Pyramids. That might've put her off DW entirely!

 

[Bouncy Castle]

In the absense of Pooh, I say

 

[author3]

Perhaps she thought the Watch books were a typo, and a continuation of the Witch books?

Actually she called the Witch books ''The Magicy ones with the witches'' and she called thw Watch books ''Policey ones''

 

[Anonymous]

Do we want to know what she would have called Reaper Man, Small Gods, Interesting Times etc?

 

[author3]

Reaper Man would probably been ''Weird Skeleton Man''
Interesting Times=''Crazy Wizzard''

 

[Cool Middle Name]

Fair enough if she found them boring. So did I with every watchbook after Men At Arms as it became less humorous and more focused on Vimes being a detector. I don't like how these books, which usually show so many viewpoints, centred on one character who is having all the adventures. So I prefer the Witches books where every character is doing something interesting and constructive all the time.

But to dislike it so much that she didn't want to read the rest, even though she liked the Witches ones so much? What a narrow-minded view.

 

[MongoGutman]

Would you say that as DW progresses TP is leaning more towards plot driven stories and less towards character?

 

[Anonymous]

It always depends, I'd say.
Unless the talks is about what formally were the Watch books and are now Vimes books.
(I think I stopped liking Vimes when he was the 'trigger' for the pseudo-happy-end in MR )

 

[Cool Middle Name]

Would you say that as DW progresses TP is leaning more towards plot driven stories and less towards character?

I'd say that is part of it, and that now the only character being expressed is Vimes (and Vetinari). Don't like Vimes because he hasn't got a very funny personality. I understand that he is supposed to represent the 'working class' but sometimes his books may as well be in first person.