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29 de out. de 2013 · Although "Men at Arms" is a highly entertaining and humourous police story, it also deal with several social issue in an intellectually satirical way. This book deal with some very serious historical delima regarding the classic case of the stranger hero who is the long lost king of some kingdom.
- Terry Pratchett
Book Review: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett. Captain Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is getting married. It's an occasion of great happiness and joy, marred by a massive explosion at the Assassins' Guild and the theft of an unknown artefact. The Guilds don't want the Watch involved and the Patrician doesn't want Vimes involved, but ...
26 de abr. de 2023 · He committed the murders with the "gonne", the Disc's first and only hand-held firearm, a dangerous invention of Leonard of Quirm that d'Eath stole from the Assassins' Guild. The gonne appears to have a demonic power that tempts people into using it. When d'Eath explains his plan to Dr. Cruces, the head of the Assassins' Guild, Cruces kills him ...
1 de jan. de 2001 · A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone ...
13 de out. de 2009 · Men at Arms: A Discworld Novel. Kindle Edition. by Terry Pratchett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.8 9,825 ratings. Part of: Discworld (41 books) See all formats and editions. “Unadulterated fun.”—San Francisco Chronicle. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rests on the unlikely shoulders of newly promoted Corporal Carrot and his hapless charges ...
- Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms reads a bit more like a typically who-dunnit thriller story which is a bit different up to this point in the Discworld books, and to be honest Pratchett's ability to create a humorous, exciting, sense making mix of fantasy and police procedural is beyond Godlike. Men at Arms is also a bit more high stakes than previous novels.
- Terry Pratchett
And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city. The new recruits will need to learn fast ... Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
