If you read these first, you will be rightly annoyed by their just-barely-okayness, and spend the rest of your life muttering about how overrated he is. Getting back into Discworld made me wonder how much of my love for it is how it influenced who am I now (I started reading these at 14), or is it speaking to my core as a person. The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. This is the beginning of the Vimes we all know and love, the evolution from the down-in-the-gutter pessimistic drunk "brung low by a woman"¹ (the city itself, that is) to the equally pessimistic servant not of the King or the Patrician but the law, a thorn in the side of so many not-so-uncorrupt but quite respectably upstanding Ankh citizens. a stage play for the amateur stage scripted by Stephen Briggs (1993) (script later published in book form 1997).

This one mentions the origins of the Librarian, an orangutan who runs the greatest library in the world.But what made me realise this is a book I will love forever is the introduction to the Elucidated Brethren.

Vimes is imprisoned in the same cell as the Patrician, who has been leading a relatively comfortable life with the help of the rats he uses as spies. After the remaining Watch fail to kill the king through a 'million-to-one chance' arrowshot, Errol fights it, and knocks it from the sky. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. Notice also that the translation Terry supplies ("To protect and to serve") is actually the motto of the Los Angeles Police Force.And then you hated her and, and just when you thought you'd got her, it, out of your whatever, then she opened her great booming rotten heart to you, caught you off bal, bal, bal, thing.

Just take me, I´m doing nothing than reading and going out in nature in my free time for over 1 and a half decades now and it´s perfectly fine and totally normal, hehe.The humour takes centre stage but underneath – not even far underneath – Pratchett was using Discworld as a mirror to explore, lampoon and critique our world with its many ills and injustice.