# Loving 'Night Watch'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loving-night-watch/139423>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 29, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loving-night-watch/139423 "2002-11-29T00:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loving-night-watch/139423/1 "2002-11-29T00:51:41Z")

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I know this thread will probably die a death instantly but I had to say it.  
I started to get doubts about Terry Pratchett after failing to get ‘into’ ‘The Truth’. But the last few ‘chapters’ (there doesn’t seem to be chapters) of Night watch have made me laugh out loud. One [of many] took me ages to find (I was well past it in the story. And proof reading is hard when you’ve knocked back a few…)

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> Once he’d been standing so quietly, so withdrawn, so _not there_ that a fleeing robber who’d evaded his pursuers, had leaned against him to catch his breath. And, when Vimes put his arms around him and whispered ‘Gotcha!’ into his ear, the man had apparently done in his trousers what his dear mother, some forty years before, had very patiently taught him not to do.

If you put yourself in the shoes of the robber, like I did, you find it funnier than otherwise.  
P.S. I had asked in CS what the picture on the back of the book was. If I had bothered to use the limited collection of braincells I possess - I would have looked inside the sleeve-cover to find out that it was _The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (The Nightwatch)_ by Rembrandt.

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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loving-night-watch/139423/2 "2002-11-29T08:18:30Z")

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I’m reading this one too. I’m loving it, as I’ve loved every TP book I’ve read. Sure, there is a range of quality, as with any collection of works, but the worst of TP is better than the majority of drek that gets published.

And Night Watch is far from the worst.