Night Watch

(Discworld Novel 29)

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

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'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'

For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution.

For Commander Sam Vimes, it all feels horribly familiar. Caught on the roof of a very magical building during a storm, he's found himself back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard, especially when your time travel companion is a serial killer who knows where you live. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion.

The problem is: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future...

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Night Watch is the sixth book in the City Watch series.

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this is probably my favorite Pratchett book

but some of the caricatures were difficult to understand because of the narrator. better to give up acting and just read.

The best of the City Watch series.

This story contains some of Sir Pratchett's best truisms, grand reveals, greatest wit, and cleanest narrative. Sam Vimes is the ideal cop and in this story, manages to transcend all his titles into something he would probably hate. There's a beautiful tribute to fallen soldiers, deep philosophical questions about what makes a hero, and why they might be worth remembering differently.
This is a good one, probably my favorite so far.

Great book similar to terry’s other works

I have read most of the diskworld books and this one is one of the best in my opinion

Possibly the best

Night Watch is possibly my favorite Discworld novel. Granted some of the humor of the others isn’t there and the story has a harsh ending. But STP had a harsh message to get across and no other author could have made it so immersive and compelling.

💜💜 Night Watch at last

Night Watch is my favorite Discworld novel, so I was ecstatic when I discovered it was finally released to the US from its region lock in mid-May.
This is a beautiful, well-acted re-recording for the audiobook. Compared to the older audiobook recordings, I feel the newer recordings strike an excellent balance between Pratchett’s humor and the severity of the concepts Pratchett discusses in his books and that this balance lends itself particularly well to the darker atmosphere and tone of Night Watch.
I’ve immensely enjoyed John Culshaw’s recordings for the rest of the City Watch audiobooks as well, so I’m so glad to now be able to appreciate his recording of Night Watch.

To steal from a cover blurb review from Guardian—“it has profound, moral complexity, hard emotional impact, careful plotting, gritty political insight and, best of all, raw, urgent humanity.”
It is a story for the times written with love and with anger. It reads quickly and does not waste space. It is a novel in conversation with Les Mis (to call it a direct, simple satire of it is an egregious disservice and understatement), but it is a practical, gritty conversation—there aren’t any catchy melodies or trajectories from earthliness to godliness or heroes—there is just history running its course and people doing a job they did not have to do, but did anyway because it was in front of them and because we are here, and this is now. It is an antidote to apathy and encourages consideration of when it’s time to light a candle in the dark or a flamethrower.