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Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novels)

by Terry Pratchett

ISBN13: 9780061020643
ISBN10: 0061020648
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Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchetts legendary Discworld series.

Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order - and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power?

Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more?

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Here there be dragons...and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...).

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Terry Pratchett is one of the world's most popular authors. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 75 million copies worldwide and have been translated into nearly forty languages. In 2009 Queen Elizabeth II knighted Pratchett in recognition of his "services to literature." Sir Terry lives in England.

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: Mark Durst, September 30, 2011 (view all comments by Mark Durst)
This is an excellent place to enter the Discworld series. It is past Pratchett's early fumbling with the form, and provides a first look at one of his stock character sets, who recur in many later Discworld novels.

It's also a wonderful introduction to Terry Pratchett, a lapidary writer who breaks the bonds of comic fantasy to write books that should be of interest to anyone who reads fiction.
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: Maggie_S, October 30, 2010 (view all comments by Maggie_S)
Every Discworld novel I read just makes me want to read more. Capt Vimes of the Night Watch has to try to save the city from a huge and menacing dragon that has been conjured from the evil mind of a sorcerer. He gets help (reluctantly) from the rest of the Watch, including the newest, most gung-ho member, Carrot, who just might be the heir to the throne.
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: emmejo, February 14, 2010 (view all comments by emmejo)
A group of men summoning a dragon for nefarious purposes, a young hero, raised far away by dwarves, coming to his first city, a group of rather incompetent guards; these are common enough cliches in fantasy stories, but Pratchett turns them on their head and makes them hilarious. Fooling with cliches and assumptions, he keeps you on your toes by throwing you for a loop when things don't follow along a standard storyline.

This was the first of Prachett's books I had read, as I have always been daunted by the length of his Discworld series. I live in a rural area, and getting stuck in the middle of a series for an extended length of time because you can't get the rest of the books is not at all fun.

I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more of this author's work though, as this was quite possibly the best comedic fantasy I have read. His writing is witty and sharp, with plenty of laugh out loud spots. (Per-maybe-haps best not read in public, as you get odd looks and people edge away when you sit there laughing and giggling over a book.)
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ISBN:: 9780061020643
Author:: Pratchett, Terry
Publisher:: HarperTorch
Author:: by Terry Pratchett
Location:: New York
Subject:: Fantastic fiction
Subject:: Fantasy - General
Subject:: Fantasy fiction
Subject:: Fantasy - Series
Subject:: Discworld (Imaginary place)
Subject:: Guards troops
Subject:: Discworld
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: Science Fiction and Fantasy-Series Adventure
Subject:: Science Fiction and Fantasy-Fantasy
Edition Description:: Mass Market PB
Series:: Discworld Novels (Paperback)
Series Volume:: 60
Publication Date:: 20010731
Binding:: MASS MARKET
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 384
Dimensions:: 6.78x4.19x1.10 in. .40 lbs.

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