![]() ![]() Still, the narration is good and the voices and characterisation is engaging. ![]() ![]() Stephen Briggs's reading is as always excellent, though here more than ever his habit of giving everyone different accents is a bit jarring. This book is perhaps less funny than some other Discworld novels (though still amusing), but it more than makes up for it in the depth of the setting and the quality of the storytelling. The time travel element is handled sensitively and believably and gives an insight into old Ankh-Morpork which fits in perfectly with the previously sketchy details of how bad things were in the old days. Commander Sam Vimes faces the unstoppable tide of history as it rolls towards him. ![]() Both the hero (Vimes) and the main villain (Carcer) make great character studies and are treated like real people influencing events rather than plot-driving juggernauts. The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The working title for this book was The Nature of the Beast, but this was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with exactly that title in the UK in late 2001. Pratchett's understanding of human nature and capability for more serious storytelling shines through here. Night Watch is the 29th novel in Terry Pratchett s Discworld series, published in 2002. Listening to it now I'm very glad I chose it. It will arrive unpainted, requiring preparation. I don't remember being blown away by this book when I first read it, but that was close to a decade ago and I wasn't really old enough to appreciate this story, which is deep and complex even by Pratchett's standards. This favourite Discworld character is depicted in a detailed 30mm scale, high quality metal cast miniature. ![]()
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