{"id":763,"date":"2004-11-16T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:55:48","slug":"night-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Night Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Night Watch<\/em> by Terry Pratchett<\/h3>\n<p>Nine of the 10 people who showed up to discuss this       Discworld novel had tried reading it, but only 5 finished.       Six had read Pratchett before and 2 sent in e-mail       comments.<\/p>\n<p>Although still satire, this is Pratchett&#8217;s darkest book in       the series. It&#8217;s a socio-political police procedural. In it       Sam Vimes, one of the Ankh-Morpork Guards, ends up in his       own past during a time of political struggle. He mentors       his younger<!--more--> self as he does his duty as a good beat cop,       trying to keep order while uncertain whether this alternate       past will turn out the same.<\/p>\n<p>The book starts off slow and somewhat confusing for readers       not familiar with the Guards. This was where most of the       non-Pratchett fans stopped reading. Once Vimes went back in       time the pace picked up considerably&#8211;one reader couldn&#8217;t       put it down until the end.<\/p>\n<p>We probably did not get many of the puns, but for most of       us that didn&#8217;t interfere with enjoyment of the story. We       liked the temporal monks and how their tampering with       history allows Pratchett a means of making changes in the       series&#8211;to the surprise and delight of his fans.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Watch by Terry Pratchett Nine of the 10 people who showed up to discuss this Discworld novel had tried reading it, but only 5 finished. Six had read Pratchett before and 2 sent in e-mail comments. Although still satire, this is Pratchett&#8217;s darkest book in the series. It&#8217;s a socio-political police procedural. In it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}