As others have said this is a hard choice, since the Watch books are my favourite in general. Guards, Men at arms and Feet of Clay particularly, hmm...I have to go for [b:27dba23ea7]Men At Arms[/b:27dba23ea7] but it is a close call. I like how the watch has to take on new recruits and Detritus and Cuddy are funny together, Gaspode gets an outing and Carrot meets Angua.
The story flits between all the characters and their part in it brilliantly.

I voted nightwatch because it just gives you sich a great insight at the characters when they were younger...

[color=green:fe879ea1eb]it is night watch, but i almost put jingo. the thing with the demon daytimer at the end of jingo (i won't spoil it - go read it!) still gives me the chills whenever i think about it.[/color:fe879ea1eb]

Tough call between Jingo and Night Watch.

Sam is such a fantastically created character, reading a Watch book makes you feel like you're slapbang inside his head.

Jingo had me in stitches, and it was relesed at a time the middle east was on the news, was I always felt it was a break from all the seroius stuff going on in the world..

Ill never forget the football match at the end

Nightwatch was a fantastic book, but for some reason parts of it horrified me, it was a part of the diskworld i never really thought about and when they broke in to the "The Specials" (was that the name i forget) the imagery was good but unlike him..

Jingo.
I love all the watch books but there is something special about Jingo, the dis-organiser / trousers of time, Nobby / Colon / Patrician, the incredulity Vimes felt at the actual 'Planning' of a war, Vimes's butler, etc etc...
I feel that this book in particular is a rich tapestry of plot, story and character, and it loses none of its sparkle when I come to re-read it(which I do more often than is probably healthy :? )

I could probably say the same sort of thing for most of the books, but to me, Jingo will always be slightly above the rest.

Cheers.

R.

Men at arms for me and the DH. all votes from Australia,yahoooeee

My fav watch book would have to be NIGHTWATCH caus vimes gets to bak in time and u get to meet nobby as a kid who has an obsession with a spoon

There are many people on these boards whose first language is not English. It is more difficult for them to read than it is for native speakers. It becomes even harder when people use chatspeak and abbreviations. For their sake, it is good to type words out completely. This is not a chatroom. There is time to not only check over posts for spelling and punctuation, but in fact to consider their content to make sure it adds to a thread.

So please, try again. In English this time.

the poster is 13,maybe this being his first real message board you could cut him some slack or to be correct give him some time to learn the nicieties of message boards as a whole.

[quote:82ff572da7="wannabenanny"]the poster is 13,maybe this being his first real message board you could cut him some slack or to be correct give him some time to learn the nicieties of message boards as a whole.[/quote:82ff572da7]

I guess that answers this: http://www.terrypratchettbooks.org/fortopic901.html

and your mention on this then: http://www.terrypratchettbooks.org/post23122.html#23122

Ba wasn't being unfriendly by the way, we say the same to everyone. Obviously we do cut some slack for some members, a few of which are dyslexic and some have been as young as 13 in the past. I think it's better to mention stuff that we don't lkike right away if possible, all part of learning the nicieties of this message board. It's not a telling off, just a little pointer that everyone gets when they type in shorthand text.

I'm a Jingo fan myself. Plenty of Detritus makes for a very good book. lol

Nightwatch. Come on I love the all the watch books but this one packs a punch. Possibly TP's best, the theme of real heroism in impossible circumstances , the power of the narative .I know we're spoiled on TP's consistant quality ( I sometimes think he'd be taken more seriosly if he had fewer books) but even among giants this book towers.

I don't know. NW is amazing, but I think T5E and Jingo are extraordinarily good books when placed under analysis.

There are no bad Discworld novels and I dig the Watch. NW is such an ambitious and powerful work it almost deserves it's own category. T5E is weakened by it's rewrite, Thud. I can't criticize Jingo except to say that the many characters ,converging plots and lightheartedness kept it from focusing the impact of NW.