It’s bloody great. I love the absurd humour and wordplay, the weird non linear plot, the black humour and satire of bureaucracy. Then you get hit in the guy with some really dark depressive shit. It really isn’t for everyone, though. There ain’t nothing like it. Well Kurt Vonnegut kinda has the same vibe in some of his books, but I love his books for other reasons.
I’d probably put a Vonnegut book in my favourites list as well but I couldn’t decide which one!
I read Catch-22 in high school and found it really funny. Then I read it about 30 years later and it was just so damn angry. I think I had lived enough to really understand the anger by that point. Great both times, if different.
What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.
Added catch 22 to my list, I’m quite intrigued by the synopsis ^^
It’s bloody great. I love the absurd humour and wordplay, the weird non linear plot, the black humour and satire of bureaucracy. Then you get hit in the guy with some really dark depressive shit. It really isn’t for everyone, though. There ain’t nothing like it. Well Kurt Vonnegut kinda has the same vibe in some of his books, but I love his books for other reasons.
I’d probably put a Vonnegut book in my favourites list as well but I couldn’t decide which one!
I read Catch-22 in high school and found it really funny. Then I read it about 30 years later and it was just so damn angry. I think I had lived enough to really understand the anger by that point. Great both times, if different.
What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.
thats my bad there, replied to wrong comment, it does sound like a ton of fun to read
Would it be benefitial to start 4 books prior to Night Watch, being The Truth or somewhere else?
Edit* I’ve just seen in readarr that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is sectioned off so I’ve just started there ^^