![]() It went on to say that he began work as a journalist one day in 1965 and saw his first corpse three hours later, “work experience meaning something in those days”. ![]() The short biography he used to have on his book jackets began with the information that he was born in 1948 and is still not dead. Terry Pratchett, like TS Eliot’s Webster, has always been much possessed by death. From various reviews I have read regarding Discoworld, it is more accurately labeled a collection, as opposed to a series, although Pratchett often brings in a character, or references a character or activity from a previous book. I did not realize that Night Watch was the 29th novel in the Discoworld Series, and have dutifully placed this “series” on my “Must Read” list. The working title of the piece was The Nature of the Beast, referencing the “beast” within Vimes, but it was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with that very title in the UK in the latter part of 2001. The story offers a complicated and potentially grim scenario in places, with dark humor and entertainment thrown in for balance. The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. ![]() ![]() ‘Night Watch’ was written by Sir Terry Pratchett in 2002. ![]()
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