This woman hates the Watch
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^No. What triggered the important stuff was Polly going to find her brother. Vimes's 'reputation' was just tactics. The book was about perceived indentity & subsequent prejudices. Cause and effect, that kind of thing. Monstrous Regiment is a firm favourite of mine.
Re - The woman in the shop. My step-mother refers Discworld as 'those childrens books you read'. I mean, really!
Re - The woman in the shop. My step-mother refers Discworld as 'those childrens books you read'. I mean, really!
The detective aspect is an oversimplification of Vimes. Yes, he usually finds things out, though there may be bits he only learns of in the aftermath. But he is also about law vs society, common law vs personal morality, what are the limits of applying one's personal morality to society at large, building a multi-cultural society, and other things.
While it didn't absolutely *have* to be Vimes, the reasons it was Vimes, are, IMO, the following:
1) Pratchett really likes Vimes.
2) IIRC it was Lady Margolotta in TFE who described Vimes as paradoxically both anti-establishment and the representative of establishment. That we already know him as such makes him pre-suited for his role in MR.
3) The involvement of Ankh Morpork shows how the recent technological developments (the Clacks) are Diskifying (equivalent of globalizing) local conflicts. The situation between Borogravia and its neighbors impacts the major powers and they will try to enforce peace because war is bad for their business. Which is a big part of Vetinari's thinking, and Vimes is his terrier.
1) Pratchett really likes Vimes.
2) IIRC it was Lady Margolotta in TFE who described Vimes as paradoxically both anti-establishment and the representative of establishment. That we already know him as such makes him pre-suited for his role in MR.
3) The involvement of Ankh Morpork shows how the recent technological developments (the Clacks) are Diskifying (equivalent of globalizing) local conflicts. The situation between Borogravia and its neighbors impacts the major powers and they will try to enforce peace because war is bad for their business. Which is a big part of Vetinari's thinking, and Vimes is his terrier.
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Good grief man! Where is your ingenuity?
You should have followed her! All the way home.... :twisted: and written down her address so we could all send her letters detailing her lack of intelligence and our own personal views of the DW books..... :twisted: ... day after day.... week after week.... bawahaaaaaaaaa!!!!
author3 said:
i really wanted to have a very stern talk with her, but then she left the bookshop 
You should have followed her! All the way home.... :twisted: and written down her address so we could all send her letters detailing her lack of intelligence and our own personal views of the DW books..... :twisted: ... day after day.... week after week.... bawahaaaaaaaaa!!!!
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author3 said:
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
) 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
An odd attitude to take. Fair enough for not liking the Watch novels, different strokes for different folks and all, but to be put off the whole series when the Watch story strand is only one, semi-independent, part of it? Unusual. Then again, I got put off a different series by a different author because of one line, so I suppose I can't judge too harshly.
From a personal perspective, the Watch novels are my favourites and I think they get better with each passing novel. There's only so much Naked Gun style spoofery a series can get away with before it circles the drain and the progressively darker, angrier, more cynically humorous and more socially aware strain in the AM novels in general and the Watch novels in particular appeals to my tastes and sensibilities. Your mileage may vary of course; the joy of the Discworld novels is that there's something to suit most tastes.
From a personal perspective, the Watch novels are my favourites and I think they get better with each passing novel. There's only so much Naked Gun style spoofery a series can get away with before it circles the drain and the progressively darker, angrier, more cynically humorous and more socially aware strain in the AM novels in general and the Watch novels in particular appeals to my tastes and sensibilities. Your mileage may vary of course; the joy of the Discworld novels is that there's something to suit most tastes.
