Men at Arms

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024
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Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1993.
He's now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, miscellaneous marauders and unlicensed thieves. It's a big job-but an even bigger job awaits when an ancient document reveals that Ankh-Morpork has a secret sovereign.

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:58pm 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.

Funny but with a social message submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 16, 2012, 3:38pm "Men at Arms" deals with the dangerous allure of violence and weapons but in a very subtle way. It also deals with the lust most people have for power despite the cost to their soul and what it takes to be better than that.
The novel follows a "gonne," the first and only firearm in Ankh-Morpork, which is an otherwise very technologically advanced city. The police use swords and crossbows instead. The gonne has a mind of its own, tricking its handler into killing others in a quest for power, in a way that parallels the ring in "The Lord of the Rings" series.
Sir Terry Pratchett has written 39 Discworld novels. British audiences rate his books highly and list them as among their all-time favorites, alongside the Narnia chronicles. I highly recommend them to as they are highly entertaining and (usually) funny despite the grim content at times. I recommend reading "Guards! Guards!" first to get to know Discworld, Ankh-Morkpork politics and its City Watch first in order to have the right background to understand "Men at Arms."

So this is where the Crimson Avenger's guns came from? submitted by ZackTheCardshark on June 13, 2014, 1:34pm A funny thing: If you're at all familiar with the Crimson Avenger, it's easy to conclude that her guns must have been gonnes on Discworld before they found her.

The one that got me hooked on Terry Pratchett submitted by Marian on August 1, 2023, 6:11am I'd read several early books (e.g. "Strata") by Terry Pratchett before the finding "Men At Arms" on the then-New Book Shelf. I read a bit then put the book back on the shelf; came back another time and read a bit more; then on the third time read a bit more and checked the book out of the library. After reading it all the way through, I re-read it a second time before returning it; I was hooked. After that, I looked for the rest of the Discworld books, especially those with Sam Vimes in it, read them all and re-read most of them. I own copies of many, as well as audiobooks of some of them so I can re-read and re-listen to them whenever I want to. I'm still not a fan of Pratchett's earliest books, but he's still my favorite author, even after his too-early passing.