If you are wanting to start reading the discworld series, this is an excellent book to start with. The book is also incredibly quotable. It's obviously tongue-in-cheek fantasy anyway, that in this case i just see them as alternate universes.

Pratchett has a cynical/sarcastic sense of humor that i love. Full of creatively amusing paroxysms and descriptive hilarities.

Vimes is our mc and thusly would be the favoured point of view. I have encounterd captain vimes and his watch in other discworld books, but this is (i believe) the first book that was written about the watch. I love how carrot shakes up the city watch...  Read More

Guards guards is set in ankh-morpork and is very fun getting to know the city and the world a bit better. There is a highly unusual speech at the end of guards guards, much in the same format of dystopian novels. The patrician explains that humanity i...  Read More

Abridged is not the right word for gutting much of the local color and small incidents that set pratchet apart. The recording is a mess; the volume fluctuates to the point that you have to hand babysit the controls. He seems to try to emulate douglas ...  Read More