Long thought of as one of the Discworld’s classic must-reads, Guards! Guards! is the story not of heroes or monsters but rather of the city guardsmen who, in most other fantasy novels, show up only as death fodder for the book’s main threat (or, if the writer is particularly lazy, the heroes themselves). To that end, let us consider Guards! Guards!. Beyond that, there are three phases to the Discworld novels as a whole: their formative phase, where the setting and parodic humor are substantially more important the mature phase, where the setting drops into the background and the novels become more character-driven and the late phase, where themes that slowly developed during the mature phase start to come together into a greater arc spanning the whole of the Disc. The Disc is both world and mirror of worlds, and in this vast and rangy series, Pratchett deep and complex themes in what is above all his fun way of writing.ĭiscworld is not best tackled as a unified series, but rather as groups of series set within the overarching continuity of the Disc setting.
‘It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest.’ Reading Together – Books for Book Groups.Meg Mason and Esther Freud – Author Event.A Year in Books – Reading Subscriptions.Women’s Prize Shortlist – Discounted Bundle.
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