- Hardcover: 768 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; Omnibus ed edition (18 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575067985
- ISBN-13: 978-0575067981
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 315,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! (or dwarves or trolls or gargoyles or ...) The City Watch is a bumper volume in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of the Discworld*, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history. GUARDS! GUARDS! Sees some night-time prowler turning (mostly) honest citizens into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. In MEN AT ARMS, there's a murder to be solves so that the world-weary Captain Vimes can be married at noon and retire happily ever after. And in the Discworld Howdunnit FEET OF CLAY, someone is murdering harmless old men and poisoning the Patrician ...and the golems are committing suicide ... *Which is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle, as everyone knows.
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Terry Pratchett is a publishing phenomenon. He has sold more than 65 million copies of his books worldwide, and among his many prizes and citations are the World Fantasy Award, the Carnegie Medal, the BSFA Award, eight honorary doctorates and, of course, a knighthood. Sir Terry Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series, set on a flat planet, supported on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A'Tuin as it swims majestically through space. Four of these novels - Hogfather, Going Postal, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - have been adapted for television, with more to follow. He lives near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read these books individually several times and they are my favorites. I am an all-around Discworld fan but especially a Watch fan. The static characters (Colon, Nobby, Lady Sybil) are always great and the dynamic characters (Vimes, Carrot, ¡Angua!) are even better. These are people you can get to know and love. Don't forget to pick up The Fifth Elephant too. What's good about this book? The comedy isn't cheap, it's thoughtful. It's an honest book with entertaining and so-true insights into human behavior. Give these books a chance.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a most enjoyable compilation of three of Terry Pratchett's books about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. It is achingly funny, poignant and sarcastic, sometimes all three at the same time.
The books trace the adventures of Captain Vimes, Corporal Carrott, who is the tallest dwarf in the known universe, (to understand why this is, you will have to read the stories) and the rest of Ank-Morpork's finest. The finest what, is up to each reader to decide for themselves, heavy hint, they are not Sherlock Holmes clones, but they somehow get the job done,
If you have not read any of the author's other books you could do worse than start with this one. I admit to a slight prejudice here, the City Watch books are my favourite, (though all the others are equally good) reading them allways brings a smile to the face, and the not so occasional guffaw to the lips.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The premise of Discworld is spread across all of Terry Pratchett's books, but there are encapsulated domains within, albeit with nodding reference to the others, which makes groups of stories unique in character featuring the Witches, Rincewind, Death (the character) and these, the City Watch. The differences in character between these collections manages to keep the writings fresh and interesting, and rather than thinking that you have to read all 37, 38 (?) books to "complete the set", you are drawn to certain scenarios. Collected together in these trilogies is a wonderful way to revisit and rediscover Pratchett's genius.
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I bought a hardcover version of the watch trilogy because the pocketbook versions of "Gaurds Guards" and "feet of clay" are falling appart. Read more
Published 16 months ago by baldsandal
Pratchett is the best writer, ever!
This book was so gripping. When I first read it, I had not actually read many books before, sticking to my comics and such. It set my firm love for Discworld in concrete. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2000
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