Jingo

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Complete and unabridged.
Compact discs.
Subtitle from container.
Read by Nigel Planer.
"A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing ... And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called 'war'."--Container.

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:55pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

Too much fun there ought to be a law against it submitted by slugwhisperer on June 22, 2012, 7:27pm Reading a Discworld novel is like jumping off a high dive into the deep end of a pool for the first time on a hot summer day. You don't quite know what to expect and when you finally take the last step, you have so much fun that you don't want to leave. Hilarious. This book (and the others) on CD certainly help make our car rides exciting.

The consequences of too much patriotism submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 17, 2012, 12:26pm This is a great novel for our modern times.

As its title suggests, "Jingo" mocks excess patriotism (or jingoism) and the way politicians can whip up popular sentiment and get swept away by it, too, in the world game of strategic land holding. In particular the novel mocks the complex political ties and assassinations that began World War I, but its lessons also apply to politics today.

The novel focuses on the city-state of Ankh-Morpork and its sometimes-ally-sometimes-enemy Klatch as they prepare to fight over an island (much like Atlantis) that suddenly appears out of the sea. Of course, the rush to claim the land is rather like a child who suddenly decides they need a cookie just because they now see one where before seeing it they were fine.

I recommend all of Pratchett's Discworld novels, of which "Jingo" is the 21st. Read "Guards! Guards!" "Men at Arms" and "Feet of Clay" first to get a sufficient background on Ankh-Morpork and the City Watch.

discworld submitted by unknown on August 10, 2013, 11:09pm This is by no means the best of the Watch novels ... but even an average Pratchett novel is a thing of beauty. By turns deadly serious and laugh-out-loud funny, the book has only three weaknesses (which other reviewers have touched upon).

First, most of the Watch characters get barely anything to do. Second, the Patrician is way out of character. And finally, the ending is pretty weak.

Nevertheless, this is a still a great and very entertaining read. I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point, though, as Guards! Guards! is a better introduction, Men at Arms is funnier, and Feet of Clay is a better mystery.