“I’m a big fan of remixing things and adapting them, and I don’t expect any adaptation to be faithful in the sense of rigidly following books. “I feel someone took my teenage years and just repeatedly trampled them while setting them on fire,” she wrote on Twitter. De Bodard said she was “super disappointed”, and would not be watching the adaptation. The award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Aliette de Bodard was one of many to criticise the new trailer. It is what it is,” wrote Rhianna Pratchett, a game designer and author, on Twitter. Certainly a worthwhile topic, particularly at this time in American history (I can’t speak to other countries), but the message is incompletely rendered to those unfamiliar with Discworld’s intricacies.ĭon’t listen to me, unless you haven’t read any of the Discworld books.“Look, I think it’s fairly obvious that The Watch shares no DNA with my father’s Watch. The trouble is, much of the story has to do with the history of the city of Ankh-Morpork and the various politicking of the rulers and those propping them up, and the Night Watch’s own role in keeping the peace. Certainly interesting, at times philosophical, it definitely has a feel-good aspect that helps it go down easily. In an unusual twist, Vines will have to play mentor to young Sam. Currently a Baron, with time occupied more by meetings than by feeling the city stones beneath his feet, Sam Vines is thrown back into history as he attempts to catch a serial killer. Night Watch: A Discworld novel in which guardsman Sam Vines learns that Time Travel is Confusing. Or maybe it was that other timeline, because it was a really, really long time ago, and Vines was almost all I remembered (remember, I told you: “ I often have only foggy details stored.”) I did read at least two Vines books, Men at Arms, and possibly Feet of Clay. Most likely, it is books one through five in the Night Watch sub-series of Discworld.

Given my GR friend average rating of 4.52, I’m missing something.

In yet another, that’s the sound the vegetables thrown by my book-loving friends make when they hit my hard head.īecause, honestly, this was in between the “okay” and ‘liked it” kind of read for me. In another, that’s the sound of me marching to my own drum. In one timeline, that’s the name of another Pratchett Discworld novel ( the 34th, apparently). May, 2015 Recommended for those familiar with the Guards Discworld series ★ ★ 1/2 Thud! Thud!

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