#night watch

[ranoutofbraincells]

I just reread Night Watch so here's a few doodles

I still can't settle on a design for Vimes in my head so every time I draw him he ends up looking vastly different

[sadmushroomgoblin]

Night Watch keeps coming for my throat

[smallmetalgods]

coolest moment goes to reg. shoe of all people

[belovedcannibals014]

Watching YouTube with dusty 🥧

[andromeda4004]

@summer-reading-challenge favourite author reread: (it had to be)

Night Watch by Sir Terry Pratchett

There is no overstating how important Pterry's work has been to me. I read my first one when I was 9 (Equal Rites, which is about a girl that age) and became a lifelong fan. His writing set my standard for what was worth reading, which did sterling work in inoculating me against worse written but popular books whenever I came across them. There was a time when I would read through the entire Discworld series twice a year in preparation for whichever new book was coming out. Then Pterry died, and those books went undisturbed for a long time.

Night Watch is an excellent book, and a real payoff to the long-running character arc which Sam Vimes has gone through. What does it mean to be good in a corrupt world? What are you prepared to sacrifice? Did the heroes of our youth think they were being heroic at the time, or were they just doing the job that was in front of them? It is especially poignant in relation to Sam, knowing what a toll that corruption is going to have on him by the time we get to the events of Guards! Guards!, before Sybil and Carrot show him a world that believes in him.

This book still moves me to tears at some points. It is also more violent than I remembered, set as it is in a brief but bloody revolution. I really enjoy the insights we get into the youths of characters we have, until now, only known in their 40s and 50s, although it did make me realise that I had been picturing quite a few characters as older than Pterry intended in the earlier books.

I'm very glad to have picked this one up again, and am resisting the urge to start Monstrous Regiment next, but it's on to my Social Media pick next.

I am firing through these at a fair pace, but it's mostly because I know my Recommendation from a Friend is chonky, and the Out of my Comfort Zone book is going to take me ages 🤣

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Kostya Saushkin - Night Watch (2004)

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[smallmetalgods]

well. yeah.