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Bezig met laden... Night Watch (Discworld) (origineel 2002; editie 2003)door Terry Pratchett
Informatie over het werkDe Nachtwacht door Terry Pratchett (2002)
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A fine place to start reading Pratchett if you don't mind a few ''in'' jokes, ''Night Watch'' transcends standard genre fare with its sheer schoolboy humor and characters who reject their own stereotypes. What makes the book intriguing is Pratchett's Chestertonian common-sense morality. While his blunt logic doesn't always equip him to deal with the niceties (at one point, he seems to argue against any controls on gun ownership), it allows him to break through liberal confusions and conservative certainties. Not a side-splitter this time, though broadly amusing and bubbling with wit and wisdom: both an excellent story and a tribute to beat cops everywhere, doing their hair-raising jobs with quiet courage and determination. Stories both trap people in a continuum and console them with images of beginnings and ends. Pratchett is a master storyteller. Is opgenomen inHeeft de bewerkingIs verkort inPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks-though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there's a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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Pratchett weeft in dit deel weer wat subtiele maatschappijkritiek. Over politiek, over nooitveranderende processen, over excuses om de mensenrechten opzij te schuiven.
Waar Pratchett in andere delen nog wel eens vaart kwijtraakt, is dat hier niet geval. Het verhaal dendert voort en verliest, ondanks enkele rustpunten nooit de vaart! Het is dat het perfecte verhaal niet bestaat, anders had het vijf sterren gekregen. ( )