In the first part of Night Watch<\/i>, Samuel Vimes prepares. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Night Watch<\/i> begins at an interesting place within the greater Discworld<\/i> mythology. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s undeniable to me that the world of this series has changed, and that change is all over<\/i> the first eighteen pages of this book. More than anything, the inevitable change to Vimes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family<\/i> looms over this story. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a major change for\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, everything! And I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what the Discworld<\/i> books will look like once Vimes and Sybil have a child! Will the man change as is referenced here, and will he want to make the world better<\/i> because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s having a kid?<\/p>\n
Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d argue that Vimes has been trying to make the world a better place for a long time before the events that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll transpire here in Night Watch<\/i>. He started long ago, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all watched him change from the man who was introduced to readers IN A LITERAL GUTTER. Now, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in charge of a Watch that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grown to over 100 members. He employs a werewolf and a zombie and an Igor and the city has changed in response to that<\/i>, too. (I loved the detail about the scent bombs being used to combat Angua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful nose. WORLDBUILDING IS SO GREAT.) And, of course, Vimes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dress uniform is perhaps the most literal change that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come over Ankh-Morpork. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slightly less useless, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all! I FEEL LIKE THAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S A HUGE DEAL, OKAY.<\/p>\n
Yet the changes in Ankh-Morpork come with a tragedy: the murder of Stronginthearm by Carcer, a career killer and criminal who revels in the act of committing crime while<\/i> pretending he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s innocent. It is a shocking thing to have revealed so early in the book, but death\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the legacy left behind\u00e2\u20ac\u201dseems to already<\/i> be a theme of Night Watch<\/i>. While Vimes considers the ramifications of Stronginthearm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, there are the lilacs<\/i>. I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE, at least not in a direct way. They commemorate something, yes, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important enough that Corporal Ping is chewed out by Colon for being flippant and insensitive about the others wearing one. Though, even reading through the exchange again for this review, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like Ping was being inconsiderate. They seemed genuinely interested in what they were for, but I also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t truly understand the point of them, so perhaps I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll rescind this later.<\/p>\n
It all must<\/i> be related to John Keel, whose grave read, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How Do They Rise Up.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I have not been introduced to this character before. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ring as familiar at all! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s someone they all knew in the Watch, but prior to Night Watch<\/i>, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve not been mentioned once. WHICH FEELS REALLY WEIRD. If this man is so important to the Watch\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso much so that they commemorate his death with lilacs every year on May 25\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he mentioned before?<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SCARED.<\/p>\n
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