Also fans of the recent Les Miserables movie will find things to enjoy here, as there's a lot of barricade-building and revolution going on. You'll never look at a lilac (or a bottle of ginger ale) the same way again.Recommended for teens, adults, humor fans, and fantasy fans. It may not be the best introduction to Pratchett's excellent Discworld (start with Mort, Equal Rites, The Color of Magic, or Guards Guards!), but it's one of the best he's written. Okay, not sorry.)This book is simultaneously a complex story of time-travel, a portrait of a man quite literally looking back on his youth, and a slyly self-aware fantasy adventure. Now he's a duke, his wife is about to have their first child, and he misses the "bad old days." When a freak thunderstorm brings him and a murderous criminal back in time, he gets a chance to relive those days-but everything he does is changing history, and he might not ever get back.to the future. Sam Vimes' life has changed a lot since he was a plain old copper in the Night Watch. 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. 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. And on top of that-it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that killed a few good (and not so good) men. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back with him. This Discworld is a dark place that Vimes remembers all too well-three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and child on the way. 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. One moment Sir Sam Vimes is in his old-patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. Sir Sam Vimes gets knocked back in time thirty years in this rollicking adventure in Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series - which has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide. he’s a lot more.” - Washington Post Book World Terry Pratchett may still be pegged as a comic novelist, but. Also fans of the recent Les Miserables movie will find things to enjoy here, as there's a lot of barricade-building and revolution going on." Night Watch turns out to be an unexpectedly moving novel about sacrifice and responsibility, its final scenes leaving one near tears.
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