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Summary: Pratchett's first stumble
Review: Until this latest work, the Diskworld series was more or less unblemished, but the jokes in "Jingo" wore a bit thin. I guess everyone makes mistakes, though..."Jingo" sees Pratchett falling into shallow moralizing instead of good storytelling. Lord Rust is the most cookie-cutter, two-dimensional character in the whole series, as the egotistical, Warmonger Noble ["as seen in the Wheel of Time series!]" and especially unbelievable considering that in "Men at Arms" he was the pragmatic one. 21-hour Ahmed is almost as shallow, again it seems that Pratchett pulled a stock character from the Bad Fantasy Novel Cast List Grab Bag[tm] and grafted him in. Speaking of grafting, the whole thing with Vimes and the disorganizer in alternate universes is not only rather boring (imagine the worst episode of any Star Trek spinoff), but also badly meshed with the rest of the story. It just comes out of the blue, and never really gets integrated into the story. It's like the sub-plot was shoved in fifteen minutes before deadline. The jokes are fewer (and hence stretched thinner) than in his other books. The "Nobby in drag" joke is so overdone that it qualifies as the first Pratchett gag to fall in the "beating a dead horse" category. We've all seen the joke a thousand times, and just because it's an especially ugly cross-dresser doesn't make the jokes any more original.
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Summary: The Discworld at War - that only leads to disaster
Review: In a great way Terry describes the futility of war and racism - a truly remarkable achievement. Hopefully, all those fanatics out there with guns who are fighting one or other holy war for reasons of...well, maybe a recently emerged island in the pacific or something, will also read this book, and think again. Back to the book: it's the Nightwatch again, growing ever bigger in number and stature. And our friend Leonard da Quirm shows us what we have been missing in modern day inventors - truly stupid ideas to make your life easier but more complicated at the same time. A great laugh, and it keeps you longing for the next volume.
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Summary: superb
Review: The story of Jingo is a very impressive one. The humour is quick and very clever. In someways it took a long time to get round to the plot, which is a shame because it was an othewise superb novel. For extra humour Pratchett should have added the luggage, which always proves good for a laugh!
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Summary: Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: It's brilliant! Terry did it once again. Until I read "Jingo" I didn't think that a book could be better than "Guards! Guards!" but I think I was wrong. "Jingo" is a book you just have to love.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Way to go! I've been waiting to read these until I had three of them, and it took me three days to get through them. Jingo was worth the wait. I especially enjoyed the dis-organizer. I feel he will be much happier in the tummy of a shark who probably appreciates it more than did Vimes. I liked the alternate reality and got a chill as the demon announced what was happening in the other reality when Vimes didn't react as he did. The only problem I have with this serie it that it takes too long between books. I waited to read them and now I'll have to wait again. Keep up the good work.
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Summary: Positive Review, Develops past characters more fully
Review: In "Jingo", Pratchett returns to the controlled lunacy that has been the hallmark of the Disc World. Characters familiar to us from past adventures as side-kicks or providers of comic relief, become much more fully developed. We gain substantial insights into what makes the valiant men/women/were-folk/ undead of the Ankh-Morpork watch tick. Pratchett deserves credit for exploring the underlying, often foolish, causes of conflict.
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Summary: Passivists wanted!! Apply at the Dragon Hatchery!!!
Review: Terry Pratchet is brilliant...as always. Having read the Discworld series, I never fail to be impressed with how he keeps all his characters in character. A funny and brilliant portrayal of war-mongering for all the wrong reasons. (And are there really any right reasons?) Read it, you won't be sorry. And if you are, I can hardly be held responsible for the fact that you have NO sense of humor.
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Summary: By Jingo!
Review: Another brilliant book from the Discworld. Reading Terry Pratchet's books is one of lifes greatest pleasures, & Jingo doesn't disappoint. The regulars are back for more mayhem & laughs. Well worth getting.
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Summary: Scathingly funny soul-searching.
Review: This book is enough to make me forgive Maskerade AND Small Gods, it's almost as good as Soul Music. The lost island of Atlantis has risen, war is brewing for no apparent reason, and it's up to the usual favorites to stop it: dour reflections on life from Vimes, shockingly revealing innocence from Carrot, exquisite manipulations from the Patrician and levelheaded musings from Angua abound. The meaning of life is revealed along with the meaninglessness of war. You need this book.
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Summary: Perfectly, Preposterously Pratchett
Review: The Discworld novels have always been literature disguised as comic satire; when nothing is sacred, not even senseless wars over islands discovered by fishermen (horrors!), you have to go in wearing a gas mask. All our old friends are here; Commander Vimes, the ultimate cynic; Captain Carrot, the ultimate innocent; Vetinari, the ultimate politician; and, as always, Death, the Ultimate. This stuff is so intoxicating I swear I saw a giant turtle in my telescope, but it was just mildew. Read this or be buggered.
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