So did I, Rinso doesn't like girls, that's all... :cooler:

Ah ok. I'm pretty much a full blown fan-drooling-worship-of-everything-Pterry myself, but fair enough. And Monstrous Regiment was like one of the best ever!!! Rncewind needs to appreciate the true value of femininity . . . .(blathers on about the sacred feminine etc).

Well, same here actually, but I do get that other people aren't
You mean getting his legs and bikini line waxed and then having to walk round London in a miniskirt and heels ? That sounds fun

Yes!! All males should have to undergo a rite of passage when they hit puberty or something so they don't become arrogant little appearance fixated things, where they get their legs waxed (or / and a brazilian) and are forced to wear tights.
Or maybe not, but it's funny to think about. . . :evil:

Pfft, Only Women like MR. I can only suspect this is becuase you all have brains make of either Cake or Small Fuffy Kittens

CAKE !!!!

I actually hate pictures of small fluffy kittens. However cake sounds good!
Are MR male rituals presumably?

No, he's talking about Martin Riggs from Leathal Weapon, you know, Mel Gibson, before he started thinking about things... Girls like him, I guess it's the shower scene at the beginning... :cooler:

(Monstruous Regiment )

*swoons*


No, Wait....


*Swoons*


Damn.

Spoons ?

Ok, Martin Riggs with a Spoon. or a Spork...

Humm...

Night Watch is a fantastic book and has become one of my Discworld favourites over time.I agree with everyones general opinion on Carcer but dont you find Captain Swing just as disturbing in a slightly more insidious fashion?I also love Terry's take on the weapons law Swing institutes and the way he reflects the opinion on our own litle part of Roundworld,but as we know,Discworld is a world and a mirror of worlds.
I also noticed the themetic plot similarity between Night Watch and Life On Mars and enjoyed the series because of this.
I must mention that I love the full unabridged audio book of Night Watch & think Stephen Briggs does a fantastic job of narrating it.I'm proud to say I bought this at The Cunning Artificer in Wincanton,an adopted spiritual home of mine now! ,along with a Pyramids T Shirt and copy of Hatful Of Sky.
Yep,I'm a Pratchett nut and proud!

Stephen's reading of Night Watch is just great! His voices fit the characters, as they appear in my mind!

My husband and I agree with you about Captain Swing. Carcer is such a blatant sociopath, but Swing has had his counterparts in our world who have made life really ghastly! "Insidious" is the right word because people like that have an unfortunate ability to slide into government positions, in a sneaky, weaselly way. (If there isn't such a word as "weaselly", there should be!)

Oh no, not Insidious. That's what Nobby's mum says he is !

Not only is nobby insidious he is also armgerious,and naturally to boot

I agree with you but thats one of the reasons I like Tery so much.His sharp observance of our world reflected in the disc.Another piece of grim subtle humour I like is his references to assassinating the patrician and using the analogy of ancient tribal times with the cutting remark at the end "Of course that was a long time ago.These days no one has to eat beans".
Very dark and funny which sums up Night Watch perfectly.

nightwatch is my (probably) favorite discworld book so far (although I must add that thud! has my favorite line in the part where Vimes is in that cave and he sees Death so Death has a near-Vimes experience and brings a book ) but I'm glad I read almost all of the others before it...it's nice to have a really good grasp of the characters and then find out what they were like when they were younger...all throughout the books the characters are really developing (Vimes turns from a drunk to a married duke with a kid etc.) and then T.P. gives us a book that takes us to the begining...I liked the idea of Vetinari as a young assasin learning himself to be invisible...it just fits him so perfectly...

p.s.
I'm a discworld fanatic too or a Terry Pratchett one when I think about it, but there are four books I didn't like as much: The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantasic (because I had the feeling that T.P. didn't really have a clear image of characters yet and also that his writing style wasn't as polished as it is today...I would probably like them better if I started the series with them though), Last Continent (it just leaves me puzzled about so many things...I just didn't know what was going on through half of the book the first time I read it) and Monstrous Regiment (it's really improbably to me that everybody would be a woman faking to be a man...)
Although I must say I loved those four books a lot more than 99% of any other book written by any other author...in my opinion the only other two authors who can be compared to T.P. are Douglas Adams and George R.R. Martin...at least the modern ones...Tolkien has the same quality too...if Terry Pratchett (or the other four writers) wrote a guide about how to fill out your incredibly boring tax papers it would be still be written so well that you would just be dragged into it...the writing is just harmonious no matter what they write...