Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
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Men At Arms
(Discworld Novel 15)

Author: Terry Pratchett

Series: Discworld Novels #15

Narrator: Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2023


Synopsis

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'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.'

The City Watch needs MEN! But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

And they need all the help they can get, because someone in Ankh-Morpork has been getting dangerous ideas - about crowns and legendary swords, and destiny.

And the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world . . .

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series.

'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express

© Terry Pratchett 1993 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

About Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on August 16, 2020

Quota policy, by integrating minorities in the already chaotic and dysfunctional City Watch, while a military arms race and intrigues are boiling. Prejudices and racism are some of the main tropes behind the curtain and this often used elements come to ingenious culminations with the integration of a......more

Goodreads review by Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews on April 26, 2022

Check out my new youtube channel where I show my instant reactions to reading fantasy books seconds after I finish the book. In the running for the funniest book of all time Fans of fantasy or just fans of laughing need to stop what they are doing and read both this book, and it's predecessor Guar......more

Goodreads review by Lena on April 29, 2023

A murder mistery in a fantasy parody world? Only Pratchett could come up and succeed with such a bizzare idea. As ussually he plays with the genre stereotypes: we have a troubled cop tired of city's corraption and is about to retire; new recruits from the rival gangs who are ment to become best frie......more

Goodreads review by Mort on October 18, 2020

5 STARS Fact: I don’t like to read fantasy. Fact: The very idea of reading a book without chapters seems like hard work. Fact: I own more than 40 Terry Pratchett novels. Fact: I have read every Discworld novel at least twice. Why, you ask? Quite simply: Terry Pratchett was the funniest writer in the world......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on August 26, 2024

Re-Read 8/26/24: Still easily one of my favorite Discworld novels. The whole expansion of the Night Watch with all its extremely colorful characters is just too charming. From start to finish, it's brilliant. Original Review: Discworld Re-Read project #15. :) I remembered that there was one particular Wa......more


Quotes

'Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express

'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times

'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday

'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences' New York Times

'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd' Sunday Times

'This has everything to recommend it...one of his most inventive' Daily Telegraph

'Pratchett's most intriguing yet' The Times