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Men At Arms

(Discworld Novel 15)

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'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.'


Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world...

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'Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year'

'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'

'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'

'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences'

(A.S. Byatt)
'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd'
'This has everything to recommend it...one of his most inventive'
'Pratchett's most intriguing yet'
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The guards are my favourite characters, closely followed by the witches. can't wait to listen to the next one.

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I thoroughly enjoy Tony Robinson as a narrator. Even if it is an abridged version.

Love this story

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Great book, wonderfully read by Tony Robinson. Left wanting to hear the next instalment in the adventures of the night watch.

Absolutely Fantastic

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Once again a fantastic story by TP and an excellently voiced reading by Tony Robinson. Definitely worth a listen

Abridged and adored

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Brilliant story in true Pratchett humour. Well read by Tony Robinson. A thoroughly enjoyable “read”.

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