Jingo: A Novel of Discworld

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Summary: One of his best!
Review: Once again Terry's outdone himself. I was beginning to think that he couldn't possibly get any funnier when he released this! Witches Abroad is still my favourite though!

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Summary: Another Score for Pratchett
Review: Yep. 10 out of 10. But being by Terry Pratchett, its redundant to rate his books; they're all 10's, possibly 9's. I think this is probably the best Ankh-Morpork Watch novel, along with Men at Arms.

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Summary: Pratchett strikes again - hurray!
Review: Terry Pratchett once again uses his wonderful dry humor to take a look at a serious topic - and make us all laugh. Pratchett holds up a mirror to the failings of mankind, reintroducing us to past favorites(the Patrician, Commander Vimes, Carrot, Nobby) as they struggle to prevent war from breaking out. Of course, each of them has very different views on HOW this should be done...or even IF it should be done... I laughed 'til I cried as this wonderful cast of characters trudged doggedly through the pages, each determined To Do Their Duty in their highly individual ways.

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Summary: Give War a Chance
Review: One of the sad things about being American is how long it takes Mr. Pratchett's books to appear there. War is of course futile, this time it is funny as well, much better than the rather unfortunate Masquerade, and nearly as good as Small Gods.

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Summary: You don't like war? You'll like, and learn from, this book.
Review: Copper Samuel Vimes is a peace officer in Ankh-Morpork and his job is to keep the peace. Even when the criminals happen to be two armies.This book examines, in a remarkably funny way, the mechanisms that leads to war and how rulers manipulates its subjects so they're fit for fight.I envy those who havn't read this book yet. You've got a good time ahead of you. You might want to read the other City Watch books by Pratchett first. They're just as good and you'll learn "Howe to Summone Dragons" .

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Summary: Pratchett just gets funnier
Review: Ankh Morepork and Klatchia are set to go to war over a newly risen piece of seabed (Atlantis was never like this - there is octopus art everywhere) apparently worth nothing to anyone - except perhaps if they wanted to start a war. Samuel Vimes, head of the Night Watch, has a personal organiser that has, listed under things to do today, the entry "die", and his butler has gone off to enlist. Vimes' day goes strictly down hill after an attempted assasination attempt of the Klatchian Ambassador, apparently by someone too weak to shoot the bow; Sgt Colon and Corp Nobby Nobbes go AWOL; and Corp Angua, the werewolf in watchwoman's clothing, is being held hostage and won't let the hostage-takers go. Typical Pratchett. If he gets any funnier, you'll need a doctor's advice before reading.

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Summary: Please excuse the pocket dis-organizer....
Review: Jingo - a warm, heartfelt novel about the struggle between two nations...
hmm... maybe not.

It's really about an island that pops up between these two continents - and they both wanted to claim it.

Meanwhile, Commander Samuel Vimes of Ankh-Morpork is trying to keep his family life together (meaning - he and his wife always eat together. Well, at least dinner. Most of the time.) while keeping up with his never-ending chase of criminals.

And when the prince from the other continent (Klatch), on a diplomatic mission in Ankh-Morpork, is almost killed, war is started.

Vetinari goes on a little mission of his own, in a submarine (though it's real name is much longer) invented by one Leonard of Quirm, and Angua boards a ship heading for Klatch and has to get rescued by her boyfriend, Captain Carrot (who is quite calm about the whole thing, of course).
By Jingo!

Filled with the satire that could only be written down this way correctly by Terry Pratchett, Jingo is a fun story that takes you up in the spinning of the Diskworld.

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Summary: Jingoism
Review: Once again Terry Pratchett mirrors the irreverence of our own world with this charming little novel concerning a war between a very western Ankh-Morpork and a very middle-eastern Klatch. As usual the references from literature and the history of the real world as well as aspects of current events wormed their way through that beautiful dimensional portal in Pratchett's brain to give us a delightful romp and thought provoking look at one of the most basic and primal human events. It was written in the finest tradition of the City Watch series which seem to always show that true duty and realism tend to win out over the insanity that the majority of the world engages in. Watch out for 71-Hour Ahmed and the rest of the D'Regs, but they even seem weak next to the power of Corporal Nobbs in a dress. If you're a Pratchett fan, you're going to read it, and if you're not a Pratchett fan, become one.

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Summary: Definitely one of my favorites
Review: As an avid Discworld fan, I'll acknowledge that the quality can ebb and flow from novel to novel. That said, this is one of the best. The humor depends more on familiarity with the characters than anything (though most of the books can be read in any order, I wouldn't recommend this one until you've gotten acquainted with the Guard; there are some priceless character interactions that would be lost on the uninitiated), and the story relies more on that than the usual spoofing of a real-world convention, although even that works far better in this story than it does in many of his other novels.

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Summary: Yay!
Review: Discworld is one of the few bookseries that seems to be improving as it goes along even after twenty something books, a real feat! It changed from random humor into parody into satire, and this is personally one of my favorite books, it's hilarious, while questioning the ideas of war. I won't bother describing the plot when everyone else has already done so.