Terry Pratchett (was: Smell of Cabbage)

[abigailnus]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> Beautiful job of delineating the threads, Abigail, but I would 
> put "The Truth" in the City Watch thread, even though the Watch is 
> peripheral to the main story, because it concerns that same plot-line 
> that moves the othes in the thread:  another plot to remove or 
> neutralize the Patrician.  

Yes, I think you're right.  The Truth does have a different protagonist then the rest of the Watch books, but that's not uncommon.  In the Death series, Mort is the protagonist of Mort, Death is the protagonist of Reaper Man, and in Soul Music, Hogfather and Thief of Time, the protagonist is Death's granddaughter, Susan.

So, the Watch series should be:
Guards! Guards!
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Night Watch

The Truth is my favorite of the Discworld 
> novels-- albeit by a Dwarf's hair-- not least because it introduces 
> my favorite minor character, Otto Chriek.

The Truth is defnitely my favorite of the newer Discworld novels, although it can't quite displace my love for Wyrd Sisters.

Kathryn said:
>>My current favourite is Night Watch - but you really need to read the other
 Watch books first. It's the Discworld does Les Mis, although more subtley
 than he did Macbeth.>>

OK, I'll bite.  I've never seen Les Mis, how does Night Watch parallel it?

Abigail