Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett.
It's basically about a recurring character in Pratchett's books, Sam Vimes. He is the chief of police and has a pretty good life. Because of a freak magic accident (which is explained well, by the way), he and a really evil criminal are thrown back in time by about 30 years. That just happens to be when Vimes first joined the Watch, when he was still a child. Of course, he accidentally kills the man who taught him anything, but because Time has a funny way of fixing itself, he ends up with a scar and eye-patch just like the man who taught him everything.
Now the city is on the brink of a cival war. The man he replaced was supposed to play a major part in the war, and the man who he was chasing at the beginning plays another major part.
It's actually a pretty amazing book. I love it a lot. I'll post my two favorite quotes:
Sidoh should like this one, it's a Monk of Time explaining the nature of Time to Vimes:
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"We used to think that time was like a river, you could row up and down and come back to the same place. Then we found out it acted like a sea, so you could go from side to side as well. Then it turned to be like a ball of water; you could go up and down too. Currently we think it's like . . . oh, lots of spaces, all rolled up. And then there are time jumps and time slips and humans mess it up too, wasting it and gaining it. And then there's quantum of course." The monk sighed. "There's always bloody quantum"
Vimes talking to his younger self about the Secret Police:
Quote"Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people!"
You wish. Your book can't stand up to the ownage that Ender's Game dishes out in the first two words. ;)
I've read Night Watch before, I think. I didn't like it. >.>
Reading it is only useful if you've read other Pratchett books. His style is one of the greatest, reminds me a lot of Douglas Adams. I own every one of his Discworld novels (except the newest one, Thud!), and have read all of them once, and at least half of them twice.
Well that's lame.
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 08:35:36 PM
Well that's lame.
Go read HP5 and tell me why Alastor Moody claims that he was never really a "teacher" to Harry, while they're all flying to headquarders, without knowing what happened in HP4. All series books are like that.
Pratchett's books aren't really a series, they just use reoccurring characters. Each time the characters are introduced, they are introduced properly. But it helps if you read the books before to understand it properly, in context.
Quote from: Joe on March 13, 2006, 08:53:03 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 08:35:36 PM
Well that's lame.
Go read HP5 and tell me why Alastor Moody claims that he was never really a "teacher" to Harry, while they're all flying to headquarders, without knowing what happened in HP4. All series books are like that.
Harry Potter sucks, I wouldn't want to do that regardless.
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 09:25:39 PM
Quote from: Joe on March 13, 2006, 08:53:03 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 08:35:36 PM
Well that's lame.
Go read HP5 and tell me why Alastor Moody claims that he was never really a "teacher" to Harry, while they're all flying to headquarders, without knowing what happened in HP4. All series books are like that.
Harry Potter sucks, I wouldn't want to do that regardless.
But you lose becuase you knew he was talking about Harry Potter. And I had no idea. :P
Quote from: iago on March 13, 2006, 10:15:23 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 09:25:39 PM
Quote from: Joe on March 13, 2006, 08:53:03 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 08:35:36 PM
Well that's lame.
Go read HP5 and tell me why Alastor Moody claims that he was never really a "teacher" to Harry, while they're all flying to headquarders, without knowing what happened in HP4. All series books are like that.
Harry Potter sucks, I wouldn't want to do that regardless.
But you lose becuase you knew he was talking about Harry Potter. And I had no idea. :P
He says, and I quote:
HP5,
Harry, and
HP4. Pretty big hints.
Cool! I did like The Color of Magic; I just have a hard time forcing myself to start reading those sorts of books, even if I know I'll enjoy them.
Maybe I'll check it out. :)
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 10:17:50 PM
Quote from: iago on March 13, 2006, 10:15:23 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 09:25:39 PM
Quote from: Joe on March 13, 2006, 08:53:03 PM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 08:35:36 PM
Well that's lame.
Go read HP5 and tell me why Alastor Moody claims that he was never really a "teacher" to Harry, while they're all flying to headquarders, without knowing what happened in HP4. All series books are like that.
Harry Potter sucks, I wouldn't want to do that regardless.
But you lose becuase you knew he was talking about Harry Potter. And I had no idea. :P
He says, and I quote: HP5, Harry, and HP4. Pretty big hints.
I didn't know he was talking about it either. I kind of thought about it, but I wasn't sure. :)
And the best books are: Eragon, Eldest, and all of the His Dark Materials books.
His Dark Materials are Amazing!
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Somehow my post got stuck inside all the quotes, well that's fixed now. :)
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 10:17:50 PM
He says, and I quote: HP5, Harry, and HP4. Pretty big hints.
Not really. HP only means printers to me, and Harry can be anything.
Quote from: iago on March 14, 2006, 08:49:11 AM
Not really. HP only means printers to me, and Harry can be anything.
Hahah, that's what I was thinking.
Quote from: iago on March 14, 2006, 08:49:11 AM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 10:17:50 PM
He says, and I quote: HP5, Harry, and HP4. Pretty big hints.
Not really. HP only means printers to me, and Harry can be anything.
They also have a variation of Unix, and make camera products. That, and much much more!
Quote from: Quik on March 14, 2006, 05:36:44 PM
Quote from: iago on March 14, 2006, 08:49:11 AM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 10:17:50 PM
He says, and I quote: HP5, Harry, and HP4. Pretty big hints.
Not really. HP only means printers to me, and Harry can be anything.
They also have a variation of Unix, and make camera products. That, and much much more!
Obviously. But I was clearly referring to HP the company, not HP the magician.
Quote from: iago on March 14, 2006, 08:49:11 AM
Quote from: deadly7 on March 13, 2006, 10:17:50 PM
He says, and I quote: HP5, Harry, and HP4. Pretty big hints.
Not really. HP only means printers to me, and Harry can be anything.
You don't go to a class with a bunch of women that are obsessed with Harry Potter, then.
Quote from: deadly7 on March 14, 2006, 05:55:20 PM
You don't go to a class with a bunch of women that are obsessed with Harry Potter, then.
Nope, not at all.
Canadians reading British books? Hah, that's a good one!
On a side note, the real best books are FOTR, TTT, and best of all, ROTK.
Quote from: Joe on March 15, 2006, 03:24:04 AM
Canadians reading British books? Hah, that's a good one!
On a side note, the real best books are FOTR, TTT, and best of all, ROTK.
Why do you abbreviate names like that? Does it make you feel smart, or are you just lazy?
Both.
For those who have been living in a box for 70 years, the names are Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King.
Probably living in a box for the last 5 years would be more appropriate. The books weren't particularily mainstream until they were made into modern movies. Even then, can't you just say "Lord of the Rings"? :P
Agreed. Abbreviating on the internet is stupid. You're not going to die in the two seconds it takes to type out Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return Of The King.