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readythefanonsrereading Terry Pratchett's 'Jingo.'
It's really good, it has lots of great Vetinari and Tacticus moments. It's... discouraging that it just feels more on-point the older I get but hey.
Love how every time I read a discworld book, I notice new things. Even books I've read many, many times. Very mild spoilers for a book that was published in '97.
Noticed this time around that, as Vimes is in the tent with Rust and the prince, there's a kind of eerie familiarity with the stuff the dis-organizer says is on his to-do list: building barricades and the deaths of his men. Reminds me of 'Night Watch' which was probably a coincidence? (I think 'Night Watch' was written later, and of course there are various inadvertent 'continuity errors' that arise from the Discworld books being written, well, in the order in which they are written. Not a criticism, of course, just acknowledging that in what 30+ books you're bound to step on your own toes now and again.) But the thought of Vimes living through the Glorious 25th of May as a young & impressionable cop, and then now here he is as Commander Sir Samuel and almost tripping into the same situation... it's bouncing around my mind.
It's really good, it has lots of great Vetinari and Tacticus moments. It's... discouraging that it just feels more on-point the older I get but hey.
Love how every time I read a discworld book, I notice new things. Even books I've read many, many times. Very mild spoilers for a book that was published in '97.
Noticed this time around that, as Vimes is in the tent with Rust and the prince, there's a kind of eerie familiarity with the stuff the dis-organizer says is on his to-do list: building barricades and the deaths of his men. Reminds me of 'Night Watch' which was probably a coincidence? (I think 'Night Watch' was written later, and of course there are various inadvertent 'continuity errors' that arise from the Discworld books being written, well, in the order in which they are written. Not a criticism, of course, just acknowledging that in what 30+ books you're bound to step on your own toes now and again.) But the thought of Vimes living through the Glorious 25th of May as a young & impressionable cop, and then now here he is as Commander Sir Samuel and almost tripping into the same situation... it's bouncing around my mind.
