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Night Watch

(Discworld Novel 29)

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Night Watch

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.

'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time.' SFX

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I love this book and was looking forward to hearing what Jon Culshaw would do with it. At the start it sounded like we were going to get Vimes as Sean Bean, which was interesting, but this quickly settled on Vimes as Les Dawson, which wasn’t. The pace of narration is way too slow and the reading itself has retained the book’s contemplative elements while completely losing its joie de vivre.
I’ll stick with the Stephen Briggs reading,

Disappointing

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I am listening to the Disk World books in order, and this is another ingenious yarn.

The story has been well thought out, with its numerous overlapping threads that lead you down not always obvious roads, many of which that will make you laugh.

And learning the back-story to many of the characters just gives the series even greater depth.

Another great listen and looking forward to the next...

Yet another exhilarating tale

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Absolutely fantastic. If you’ve heard the other full one. Don’t hesitate too long for this. A different yes, but refreshing change of narration from the others in the series.

Super listen

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My favourite book, read beautifully. It's such a great story, and Vimes is such a brilliant character - brought wonderfully to life here. 💜

Absolutely loved it

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Superb reading of one of my favourite Discworld books (though, to be fair I have many favourites!) Jon Culshaw is excellent and as usual ‘Death,’ and, ‘Footnotes,’ appear adding a brilliant link to each other book. I can’t imagine listening to this just the once!

Absolutely Brilliant

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