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Pratchett's characters are both sympathetic and outrageously entertaining, from Captain Carrot, who always finds the best in people and puts it to work playing football, to Sergeant Colon and his sidekick, Corporal Nobbs, who have "an ability to get out of their depth on a wet pavement". Then there is the mysterious D'reg, 71-hour Ahmed. What is his part in all this, and why 71 hours? Anyone who doesn't mind laughing themselves silly at the idiocy of people in general and governments in particular will enjoy Jingo. --Nona Vero

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Where does Pratchet get this from???

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Once again terry Pratchet has created a wonderfully enjoyable story with enjoyable characters and an intricate plot as he drives us through an observation on the ludacris nature of war and why we fight them, done in a way that only Pratchet can. With his golden pen, Pratchet takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Disc once more, this time looking at a war brewing between two neighbouring lands over a spec of dirt of an island that has arisen out of the sea. As the conflict begins to seem inevitable it is up to our hero Sir Samuel and his rag-tag band of soldiers in the City Watch to hold the fabric of society together and work towards a peaceful solution in all this chaos. An excellent read of its own accord and a very good story told in the discworlds always unique way. A must read for any Pratchet fan and also worth a look for those who just want a humerous satire on war. However, is it just me or could this have been 'Blackadder the Movie'?? The sarcastic satire is there, all the characters are there too from Blackadder as Commander Vimes to Melchett as Lord Vetinari....and even Baldrick has been squeezed in as Corporal Nobbs.....and the same satirical humour we all loved from the show....Excellent!

Simply the best Discworld novel

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'Jingo' is the 22nd novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett and it is the 5th novel to have the City Watch as the protagonists. The story involves the cold war between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch and focuses on the laws of war (of which there are none). Many real life incidents can be associated with this book - the Kennedy Assasination, the Cold War following World War 2 between the USSR and US, and Leonardo da Vinci. Pratchett's interpretation of the real world through the sometime absurd comedy of Discworld is what makes his series so enthralling. Having caught onto the Discworld-mania just last year, I have had my nose buried in the series for most night and I have read the high points of the series ('The Light Fantastic') and the lower points ('Masquerade'), but none even come close to touching the comic genius of 'Jingo'. I am not sure how good this book is to read without having read the other previous City Watch stories (Guards! Guards!, Man at Arms, Feet of Clay), but Pratchett has developed the characters throughout those previous novels to keep you reading right to the end.

problem with this isis mp3 audio book

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There is a problem with this audio cd - it does not play in order. ISIS have been informed of this so hopefully they will adjust the next releases. The disc plays track 10, 11, 12, etc before it plays 1, 2, 3, and so on if playing on media player. This has been caused by the naming of the tracks in each folder as:- track 1, track 2, etc, instead of track 01, track 02, etc. This problem takes away two stars from the 5 star story. Jingo (Discworld Novel) is a 5 star story about Sam Vimes, commander of the City Watch. Commander Vimes's obvious life-weary disbelief of all things political is a wonder to behold. This story follows Sam and his men into the war between Klatch and Ankh Morpork. It is Mr Pratchett at his mercurial best - well worth reading and well worth listening to, in both the abridged version Jingo (Discworld Novels (Audio)) (read by, and enacted by, Tony Robinson) and this unabridged version (read by Nigel Planer). This unabridged version is also available in multidisc format (Jingo), but it is a lot more expensive. Mr Robinson is my favourite reader of these books, Mr Planer is my least favourite, but has improved during his time reading these books and does an acceptable job on this one, but I still find him flat in comparison to Mr Robinson.

War (almost), football in the trenches, and Leonardo too

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The one where Klatch and Ankh-Morpork nearly go to war over an island that erupts mysteriously from the Discworld's Circle Sea. Another run-out for the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, here transformed into a cross between (initially) a secret intelligence service and (subsequently) something approaching an infantry regiment. Featuring the mysterious 71-Hour Ahmed, this tale is also an opportunity for Pratchett to make some wry observations on the fatuousness of armed conflict - and to get plenty of laughs from the Discworld's very own Leonardo da Vinci.

So well written, you'll never notice how clever it is

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Our world has islands that sink; Discworld has an island that rises slowly back from the sea, "like a cat that's been away for a few days and knows you've been worried". And because the citizens of Ankh-Morpork have a fine, entrepreneurial spirit, and the people of Klatch are ruthless and greedy, with an eye for the main chance (or is that the other way around?), blows are soon struck, and, despite its lack of an army, Ankh-Morpork goes to war. The resulting farce is one of the best things that Terry Prachett has ever written. Sam Vimes as a character goes from strength to strength, ably offset by the just-too-good Captain Carrot and the exceedlingly human werwolf Angua. Perhaps best of all, we get Vetinari out of the Oblong Office and at his scheming, magnificent Macchiavellian best (he'll be Alan Rickman in the film, I know it). And while the book has much to say about war and its pointlessness, honour and justice and the nature of imprisonment, these thoughts are so inextricably woven into the comedy that you'd never notice you were thinking at all. Magnificent.