:o
l loved the bit in Maskerade when Granny plays poker with Death.

Now l know Death did not "lose" as such, but the way he admited defeat was just wonderful.

l smiled when l read it and possibly shed a tear at Mr Pratchetts wonderful sentimental side.

Also, l enjoyed Greebo going to the opera with Granny.

It's not my favourite, but it is very good fun.

the most interesting bit is about the cable street particular...cant remeber name...andri???

He was a really good character, it's a shame he wasn't used in any other books.

Yes, and I was always missing a little background info on the modern Cable Street Particulars in general. Well, maybe an inflation of sinister characters isn't too good in the long run, either.
But has it been mentioned somewhere -excuse my bad memory- why exactly Vimes revived the Cable Street Particulars?
I mean, I can see the point of Policemen in civil clothing - and I remember the quote regarding that- but seeing which bad memories the name "Cable Street Particulars" must cause, I wouldn't want to name my troup after them.

they were remade because they could be the secret policemen to find the secret crimes, or something along those lines
and it could just be the vimes wanted people to fear the name, not sure

Well, as said, the first point I got.
It was his intention when re-using the names I was wondering about.

Last week, I was at an webdesign festival (not as fun as it sounds) and I took Maskerade with me to read on the train... I was musing on the fact that I really AM like Agnes/Perdita, except I have lousy hair and a crappy annoying personnality, in a typical self-thumping depressed missing-my-husband mood. And than I get there, and at one point, I get chatting to this lovely American lady who says "oh, yes, I noticed you yesterday, you have wonderful hair..."

Shit.

[quote:0e80b8c782="Plugger"]the most interesting bit is about the cable street particular...cant remeber name...andri???[/quote:0e80b8c782]

You mean Andre the organ player?

The best part of that book is the Josh Kirby version's blurb.

But Granny Weathwx is in the audience, and [i:42a4ff1dd2]she doesn't hold that sort of thing.[/i:42a4ff1dd2]

So there's going to be [i:42a4ff1dd2]trouble.[/i:42a4ff1dd2]

It was a great book I reckon.

I liked it, I think Agnes could be possibly one of my favourite characters of the series

Er I thought the cable street paticulars were the secret police in Night watch and thats why they brought back bad memories?

They are still being revived in later -or rather earlier books... well, later in the time line, and by Vimes, as far as I remember. Andre was the first one being mentioned. It was, from the top off my head, something like "Criminals weren't wearing a uniform so they needed policemen who didn't either", something vaguely along those lines.

Yep, hidden policement to find hidden criminals... I suppose Vimes remembered the old ones and wanted to start the CSPs again and do it right this time, so they would really serve the law, and not just have fun torturing people with soft drinks...

I loved this book
i was looking on www.terrypratchettbooks.com and was really annoyed at the half arsed treatment the (obviously completley ignorant of the subject matter)pruducers of this site gave this book.
For instance there is a table that charts the different themes/satires in the books, and under maskerade they put "the Grand Opera"
Its a satire of Phantom Of The Chuffin Opera, morons!
my lips have gone so thin you can barely see them

hmph