Men at Arms
"Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!"But what it's gotincludes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).And they need all the...
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"Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!"But what it's gotincludes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is ANKH-MORPORT we're talking about...
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061804717 (0061804711)
Publish date: October 13th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
High Fantasy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery
Series: Discworld 2 (#15)
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowance. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a...
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Men at Arms is the second book in the City Watch subseries of Discworld. I liked this one better than the first book, Guards! Guards!. The story held my interest much better, and I enjoyed the characters more. Of course, it had a lot of the same characters as the first book, but I thought this on...
Terry Pratchett is now taking aim at the detective fiction in his gonne sights in one of the most amusing Discworld books that I have read to date (though that is a bit of an exaggeration, but this book does sit up there with the best of the series). We now return to the antics of the nightwatch and...
The Night Watch is an organization that see's all men as equals whether they be human, dwarf (both actual and adopted), troll, or werewolves of the female gender. In "Men at Arms" Terry Pratchett allows the male chauvinist speciesist Sam Vines to retire upon his marriage to Lady Sybil Ramkin instead...
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