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Sto caricando le informazioni... Night Watch (originale 2002; edizione 2002)di Terry Pratchett
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It's so hard to write a good time travel novel. Add in a crazy magical place like Ankh-Morpork and you have yourself a hard job. But of course, Terry Pratchett is up for anything, always, and he has fun while he does it. Fairly certain this man could have written a history of the English language that featured some kind of pun loving ogre with a kitten sized griffin for a sidekick...and it would have made complete sense. I am only sorry that he is not around to do it. ( ) I liked the first 20 pages of so, but the copy I had was misbound. (Bad HarperCollins!) It contained not 1, not 2, but 20+ pages of a contemporary spy thriller. First I thought, "Oh, alternate universe in addition to time travel? Cool." Then I realized that even though the page numbers and fonts matched, the title, author, chapter headings, and page layout did not. Would have kept reading, but I missed the actual time travel part. 2nd review: found a copy with all of its pages. Enjoyed the book.
A fine place to start reading Pratchett if you don't mind a few ''in'' jokes, ''Night Watch'' transcends standard genre fare with its sheer schoolboy humor and characters who reject their own stereotypes. What makes the book intriguing is Pratchett's Chestertonian common-sense morality. While his blunt logic doesn't always equip him to deal with the niceties (at one point, he seems to argue against any controls on gun ownership), it allows him to break through liberal confusions and conservative certainties. Not a side-splitter this time, though broadly amusing and bubbling with wit and wisdom: both an excellent story and a tribute to beat cops everywhere, doing their hair-raising jobs with quiet courage and determination. Stories both trap people in a continuum and console them with images of beginnings and ends. Pratchett is a master storyteller. È contenuto inHa l'adattamentoÈ riassunto inPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks-though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there's a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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