Sam Vimes

No, I did.

I posted it very late, so there's not very many guesses, but one of them just said, I know it's a Vimes one.

That's an interesting guess, because it's a Knack-McFeagle book.

Which, oh, there is one.

There is one Vimes book that has knack-mack fegals in it as well.

This was not that book.

Here's the book.

You could have spent some of your time, according to this article, that...

Sam Vimes sent in from Popside.com a man has built a supersonic trebuchet in his backyard Putting all of us to shame the customized siege weapon holds projectiles at seven hundred and seventy six miles per hour.

Holy shit

Wow So, yeah, I'm going to skip over the first clunky writing.

So you still have the wizards, you still have veterinary.

But the only actual protagonist from before this point that is kept is Vimes.

Everyone else is dropped.

And it's kind of, and I would say that's Pratchett realizing that the stories he wants to tell, he can't tell with those characters anymore.

And especially I like the ones that are read by Stephen Briggs and Nigel Planer.

So Nightwatch is a Sam Vimes novel.

So we first meet Sam Vimes in Guards Guards, and he is the captain of the City Watch.

So he's a copper.

He's a detective.

Naturally.

So suddenly, Captain Sam Vimes, the leader of the Watch, who is cynical, constantly drunk and deeply bitter, but still inconveniently a cop at his core, has to sober up and become the exact person this terrible city desperately needs.

What links these two incredibly disparate books together so beautifully is a thematic concept, the city as a living character.

K. Moore and Ankh-Morpork are not just passive backdrops where sword fights happen.

Errol starts the novel as a pathetic, wheezing punchline and miraculously transforms into the key to saving the city.

Both of these books fundamentally prove that civilization is just a habit.

Sam Vimes proves it by stubbornly walking the dark streets when it would be easier to stay inside.

And Locke Lamora proves it by brilliantly exploiting the gaps in high society.

and when we settled

on something about the police because i wanted to work i wanted to do the first one of the police department but that's not the night watch it's guards guards and i had forgotten so i got you reading the wrong one and then i was like it started and it was like sam vimes was a complete i was like this is not correct this is he does not start like this is 35 books in yeah So it was, yes, I was like, stop, texted you quickly and told you to stop.

I was listening to the audio book of it and I think I got maybe three minutes in before I was like,

whoops.

It'll be because that was the next logical step to be taken at that time.

So that's kind of that Nari's vibe.

As a result, Sam Vimes, who is the commander of the Night Watch.

He's the main.

It's an absurd joke on the surface, but it's actually a brilliant commentary on how governments regulate unavoidable human vices, and the characters navigating the city are legendary.

You have Sam Vimes, the profoundly cynical, recovering alcoholic watchman who constantly fights his own darker nature to uphold the law.

Pratchett uses Vimes to explain the boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness, the idea that being poor is ultimately more expensive than being rich because you have to keep buying cheap boots that leak, while the rich man buys one good pair that lasts a decade.

And you have Lord Vetinari, the tyrannical patrician, who understands that what people actually want isn't freedom, but for tomorrow to be pretty much like today.

You have Granny Weatherwax-