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Book Review: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Author: Terry Pratchett
Title: Guards! Guards!
Publication Info: Gollancz, 1989
Summary/Review:In the first installment of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch series of Discworld novels, the tall human raised by dwarfs Carrot joins as a new recruit. Carrot is very literal and by the book, but his arrival brings a new sense of idealism to the corrupted Night Watch lead by Sam Vimes. At this time a secret monastic order is plotting to overthrow the Patrician who governs Ankh-Morpork by summoning a dragon and then have their puppet slay the dragon and become king. Things go awry when the dragon burns down wide swathes of the city and declares itself king instead. In this hilarious and clever story, the Night Watch – and their tiny dragon mascot Erroll – have to summon the heroism to save the city.
Rating: ****
Discworld Reviews Master List
No.TitlePublished1The Colour of Magic19832The Light Fantastic19863Equal Rites19874Mort (radio drama)5Sourcery19886Wyrd Sisters (radio drama)7Pyramids19898Guards! Guards! (radio drama)9Eric (radio drama)199010Moving Pictures11Reaper Man199112Witches Abroad13Small Gods (radio drama)199214Lords and Ladies15Men at Arms199316Soul Music199417Interesting Times18Maskerade199519Feet of Clay199620Hogfather21Jingo199722The Last Continent199823Carpe Jugulum24The Fifth Elephant199925The Truth200026Thief of Time200127The Last Hero28The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents29Night Watch (radio drama)200230The Wee Free Men200331Monstrous Regiment 32A Hat Full of Sky200433Going Postal34Thud!200535Wintersmith200636Making Money200737Unseen Academicals200938I Shall Wear Midnight201039Snuff201140Raising Steam201341The Shepherd’s Crown2015Other books by Terry Pratchett I’ve read:
#BookReviews #Books #CityWatch #Discworld #Dragons #fantasy #humor #Satire #TerryPratchett -
The mission was hella fun. I added a stop for snack shopping and then the longer shore leave was a picnic in the Alewife Brook Reservation, which was a great place to stop and hang out and be in nature with a bunch of weird bike freaks. There was also a stop in Davis to make a small shrine to pTerry; at some point I need to replace the framed photo with something more weather-durable. We ended up with seven children on the mission which was rad as hell.
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Alles Gute Euch allen, jede Menge Flieder und haufenweise Handtücher wünsch ich Euch
am #Towelday für #DouglasAdams und
am #WearTheLilac - Day für #TerryPratchett.
Missing you both SO MUCH! -
Alles Gute Euch allen, jede Menge Flieder und haufenweise Handtücher wünsch ich Euch
am #Towelday für #DouglasAdams und
am #WearTheLilac - Day für #TerryPratchett.
Missing you both SO MUCH! -
Alles Gute Euch allen, jede Menge Flieder und haufenweise Handtücher wünsch ich Euch
am #Towelday für #DouglasAdams und
am #WearTheLilac - Day für #TerryPratchett.
Missing you both SO MUCH! -
Alles Gute Euch allen, jede Menge Flieder und haufenweise Handtücher wünsch ich Euch
am #Towelday für #DouglasAdams und
am #WearTheLilac - Day für #TerryPratchett.
Missing you both SO MUCH! -
Alles Gute Euch allen, jede Menge Flieder und haufenweise Handtücher wünsch ich Euch
am #Towelday für #DouglasAdams und
am #WearTheLilac - Day für #TerryPratchett.
Missing you both SO MUCH! -
What a story about this moment can't hold is the moment itself — the way it keeps moving, keeps offering something alongside what it's taking, keeps being more complex than any narrative trying to settle it. And what becomes available when you notice this isn't optimism so much as orientation: being present to what's actually unfolding rather than to a fixed idea of where it's supposed to go.
https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-05-19
#TerryPratchett #LifeboatAcademy #ClimateAdaptation #StayHuman
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What a story about this moment can't hold is the moment itself — the way it keeps moving, keeps offering something alongside what it's taking, keeps being more complex than any narrative trying to settle it. And what becomes available when you notice this isn't optimism so much as orientation: being present to what's actually unfolding rather than to a fixed idea of where it's supposed to go.
https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-05-19
#TerryPratchett #LifeboatAcademy #ClimateAdaptation #StayHuman
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What a story about this moment can't hold is the moment itself — the way it keeps moving, keeps offering something alongside what it's taking, keeps being more complex than any narrative trying to settle it. And what becomes available when you notice this isn't optimism so much as orientation: being present to what's actually unfolding rather than to a fixed idea of where it's supposed to go.
https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-05-19
#TerryPratchett #LifeboatAcademy #ClimateAdaptation #StayHuman
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What a story about this moment can't hold is the moment itself — the way it keeps moving, keeps offering something alongside what it's taking, keeps being more complex than any narrative trying to settle it. And what becomes available when you notice this isn't optimism so much as orientation: being present to what's actually unfolding rather than to a fixed idea of where it's supposed to go.
https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-05-19
#TerryPratchett #LifeboatAcademy #ClimateAdaptation #StayHuman
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I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!
This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th
With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.
I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.
Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.
I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.
#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt
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I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!
This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th
With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.
I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.
Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.
I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.
#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt
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I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!
This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th
With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.
I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.
Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.
I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.
#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt
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I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!
This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th
With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.
I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.
Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.
I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.
#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt
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I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!
This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th
With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.
I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.
Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.
I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.
#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt
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Aktualności:
»Dzień lilaka (Wear the Lilac Day)«Dzisiaj (25.05.2026 r.) przypada rocznica Chwalebnej Rewolucji - część mieszkańców Ankh-Morpork postawiło na ulicach barykady, by walczyć o Prawdę, Sprawiedliwość, Wolność, Miłość w Przystępnych Cenach i Jajko na Twardo.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/dzien-lilaka-wear-the-lilac-day-3/
#Fahrenheit_zin #TerryPratchett #Strażnocna #ChwalebnaRewolucja #AnkhMorpork #GloriousRevolution #NightWatch #Dzieńlilaka #WeartheLilacDay #LilacDay
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Aktualności:
»Dzień lilaka (Wear the Lilac Day)«Dzisiaj (25.05.2026 r.) przypada rocznica Chwalebnej Rewolucji - część mieszkańców Ankh-Morpork postawiło na ulicach barykady, by walczyć o Prawdę, Sprawiedliwość, Wolność, Miłość w Przystępnych Cenach i Jajko na Twardo.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/dzien-lilaka-wear-the-lilac-day-3/
#Fahrenheit_zin #TerryPratchett #Strażnocna #ChwalebnaRewolucja #AnkhMorpork #GloriousRevolution #NightWatch #Dzieńlilaka #WeartheLilacDay #LilacDay
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PSA:
It's Towel Day and the Glorious 25th of May, for those who celebrate.
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PSA:
It's Towel Day and the Glorious 25th of May, for those who celebrate.
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PSA:
It's Towel Day and the Glorious 25th of May, for those who celebrate.
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PSA:
It's Towel Day and the Glorious 25th of May, for those who celebrate.
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PSA:
It's Towel Day and the Glorious 25th of May, for those who celebrate.
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It's World Turtle Day!
I love turtles. And I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan. I utterly love it that turtles play such a major role in his world. Have you read his #book "Small Gods"? It's excellent! And a brilliant observation of humans and their approaches towards belief in higher powers.
In honour of World #Turtle Day and Terry Pratchett, here is my favourite ancient Egyptian turtle #artefact 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘💖
Get involved in saving turtles: https://worldturtleday.org/get-involved/#toolkit
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When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events – the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there – that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous. (Interesting Times)
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... Nanny Ogg's was an expression of extreme interest that was nevertheless made up of one hundred percent artificial additives. (Carpe Jugulum)
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Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick coming 25 May!
Read all about it: dwcon.org/270
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News #Merchandise
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Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick coming 25 May!
Read all about it: dwcon.org/270
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News #Merchandise
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Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick coming 25 May!
Read all about it: dwcon.org/270
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News #Merchandise
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Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick coming 25 May!
Read all about it: dwcon.org/270
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News #Merchandise
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Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick! Merch onna stick coming 25 May!
Read all about it: dwcon.org/270
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News #Merchandise
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade
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RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983
Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about #TerryPratchett and #Discworld, but they don't understand the importance of overusing #hashtags in the #fediverse, so you might have missed them.
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RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983
Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about #TerryPratchett and #Discworld, but they don't understand the importance of overusing #hashtags in the #fediverse, so you might have missed them.
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RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983
Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about #TerryPratchett and #Discworld, but they don't understand the importance of overusing #hashtags in the #fediverse, so you might have missed them.
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RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983
Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about #TerryPratchett and #Discworld, but they don't understand the importance of overusing #hashtags in the #fediverse, so you might have missed them.
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‘Yes,’ said Ridcully flatly. ‘You are. We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.’ (Interesting Times)
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There should be a word for words that sound like things would sound like if they made a noise, he thought. The word ‘glisten’ does indeed gleam oilily, and if ever there was a word that sounded exactly the way sparks look as they creep across burned paper, or the way lights of cities would creep across the world if the whole of human civilization was crammed into one night, then you couldn’t do better than ‘coruscate’.
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It is said that the hour brings forth the man. He was the kind of man that is brought forth by devious and unpleasant hours…
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It is said that the hour brings forth the man. He was the kind of man that is brought forth by devious and unpleasant hours…
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It is said that the hour brings forth the man. He was the kind of man that is brought forth by devious and unpleasant hours…
(Pyramids) -
It is said that the hour brings forth the man. He was the kind of man that is brought forth by devious and unpleasant hours…
(Pyramids)
