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Felt like reading it for the first time. There was a lot more adventure and hilarious hijinks than I remembered! I will say certain sections were tough to read in light of recent events. Major plot points involve the disputed occupation of a piece of land and racism, prejudice and violence between those of different ethnicities/religions/cultures. Satire bites harder, hurts more when it was written decades ago and continues to be relevant. 1/2

Okay, you get points for that one.
A+ 'pune'. 😉

I love them.

Awww, anxious gargoyle! 🥺 They should have a rooftop party next year.

What makes this truly mind-boggling is I believe similarly poor sartorial choices are actually part of military history. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I would pay admission to that exhibit. 🎟️🪖⛑️

The desperate try of Ankh Morporkian aristocracy to overthrow Verinari. Well, not under Sam Vimes‘ (Night) Watch and not with Verinari‘s political calculations and his sharp tongue. Ah, and there‘s a long lost island as well. 😜

Collecting … Discworld: The City Watch Collection 😁

4 down, 4 to go ❣️

Guards! Guards! ✅
Men at Arms ✅
Feet of Clay ✅
Jingo ✅
The Fifth Elephant
Night Watch
Thud!
Snuff

Can't believe I'm halfway through Discworld! I've really felt Pratchett getting into his groove over the last few books in the series, and this was no exception. Very funny, with some serious undertones about the world in which we live, focusing in this book on racism and xenophobia.

#doublespin for October complete! @TheAromaofBooks

I loved this Nobby, undercover dressed as a woman, side story.

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😂. And so it begins!

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Finally finished #PratchettPosse I‘m running behind on a bunch of my planned reading at the moment, so definitely me and not the book. I really liked this one, you get the prejudices, and then he undermines every one of them. I love the Leonardo Di Vinci-like character homages, Nobby on woman‘s rights, all the commentary on Us verses Them, etc. This one will be a favorite for sure, the Watch books are definitely winners for me.

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Love this. Enough said. 😁😁

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Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find the #Jingo post & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

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I gave this ol' paperback a hug mere seconds before taking this picture. I am emotional about how much I love this book!
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Vimes loves himself a bath and I respect that about him.
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There are so many good images of Vetinari -doing things- in this book, and I'm not even talking the obvious scene (which is also delightful). He just decided to take a nap on someone else's souvenir and it brought a tear to my eye! Vetinari!
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Jingo is one of my favorites; hilarious and very quotable; timeless about ethnic hate, warmongering, and how good people living together for generations can turn on each other overnight if agitated by politicians. Vimes is at his best; but Vetinari steals the show with his performance as a civilian in Klatch. We have Nobby as a woman, Carrot as a military leader, and Vimes in outfits he really hates; Leonard de Quirm in a submarine...⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I cannot believe that one of the things this reread is teaching me is that Nobby has more moral fiber and policing skills than Colon.
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I've started Jingo for #OokBOokClub and I am already pondering something I forgot, namely Vetinari, the lax tax collecting tyrant. I guess he doesn't collect taxes from the various rich figures in the city to have leverage over them? But I'm also wondering if it's a way to have an excuse to not have a standing army or navy.

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #Jingo!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

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Yet another Pratchett book that on the surface is hilarious, as always, yet has so many layers it's a hyper onion. Vimmes and the Watch are thrown into the middle of a diplomatic disaster that could explode in war between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch. All due to an island rising from the depths of the circle sea exactly halfway between the two.
In his usual blood minded way, Vimmes with weedle and bluff his way to a bloodless conclusion. 5/5 Stars

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Just a friendly reminder that next month we'll be reading #JINGO! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on July 8th! Woohoo!

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

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1 For number of books read would be the the late great Sir Terry Pratchett. Nothing is better than a good laugh when reading and he rarely failed to deliver.
2. Perfect night out is with my husband to a high end Japanese restaurant and retiring to a hotel suite.
3. My favorite book setting is anywhere fantastical.
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Pratchett handles diplomacy and war very very well

I picked up one Discworld book as a comfort read and haven‘t been able to stop. So now apparently I‘m re-reading the watch series #gnuterrypratchett #discworld #redfoxink

#fanfiction 'Canon' storyline, as diverged from the other leg of the Trousers of Time. A fricken' suckerpunch right in the feels, but with a reasonably Pratchettian ending. Kudos to the extraordinary namedropping; boo to the fact I want more chapters. Recommended.

the job they didn't have to do
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Yeah, this is never going to be a favorite Pratchett, despite having so many great characters. Pratchett‘s send-up of various wars and invasions in the Middle East and Southeast Asia does a good job of satirizing western stereotypes of the regions, eventually, but it felt the need to linger on the worst cultural assumptions for a good long while first. Not one I see myself revisiting.

Very nearly bailed on this one in the first 50 pages, as its satire of British wars in the Middle East and India merged a little too closely with reality for comfort. (It‘s hard to show you‘re poking fun at close-mindedness when you‘re using the same slurs as the ones you‘re making fun of.)

But I pushed on and, while I don‘t think this will ever be a favorite Discworld book, the satire is starting to outweigh the rest.

First book of #JumpStart2020 finished. I love Discworld.

honestly I'm astounded this book was published in '97 when so many of the race relation issues satirized in the text have incredibly relatable modern parallels 🤔 yet another good Discworld read albeit one that is a bit longer than it needs to be imo

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“Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He‘d been to the School of My #Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.” #QuotsyJune19

In this Discworld episode, we get to spend some time with Vetinari and Leonard of Quirm, as well as all our favorites from the watch. Fun as always!

I just love the names of the Beggars Guild members. Listed here by Cumbling Michael. 🤣

(Shoot- just spotted the typo- “and” not “amd”... the Cumbling is correct, though my head wants it to be Crumbling, as he has a skin disorder...)

“The night is always old. He‘d walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the #velvet shadows and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.” #QuotsyFeb19

Prompt: Creature
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“Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He‘d been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.” #Student #QuotsyOct18

1. Jingo
2. Tove Jansson
3. Jonathan Creek
4. Jambalaya (mum is making it right now!)

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