Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8) (Discworld Novels)

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In a sort of reverse formation, this has caused some individual police forces across the USA to adopt it, so that by now the motto has become fairly wide-spread. This striking paperback edition of the first book in Terry Pratchett’s City Watch series features artwork by Leo Nickolls with elements of Paul Kidby’s iconic cover artwork. It takes the arrival of an extremely honest and straight-laced human orphan raised by dwarves to remind the Watchmen what they are supposed to be; and a huge dragon summoned from another dimension burning up the citizens and half the city to spur them into action.

But I'll be honest, I'm also reading them so I can postpone reading the final Pratchett novel that came out a little while ago.This book reads like if Men in Tights and The Princess Bride had a baby in a death metal concert where everyone wore clown suits because the lead rocker said so.

Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.

Terry's latest book, Nation, a non-Discworld standalone YA novel was published in October of 2008 and was an instant New York Times and London Times bestseller. There's a lot of action after the secret society idiots finally lose control over their "weapon", some cute entanglements with Lady Ramkin, heroism (Discworld-style), warped logic, L-space, people accepting tyranny without a fight (in fact, they are embracing it), and a lot of burst-out-loud moments (like when Carrot tries to guess what the Librarian is saying)!