Jingo: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (MOBI)

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It isn’t much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea — just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch — which is spark enough to ignite that glorious internationalpastime called “war.” Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes thinks he should be leading his loyal watchmen, female watchdwarf, and lady werewolf into battle against local malefactors rather than against uncomfortably well-armed strangers in the Klatchian desert. But war is, after all, simply the greatest of all crimes — and it’s Sir Samuel’s sworn duty to seek out criminal masterminds wherever they may be hiding … and lock them away before they can do any real damage. Even the ones on his own side.

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⭐PLEASE NOTE THIS REVIEW IS OF THE PHYSICAL BOOK AND NOT ITS CONTENTS: I ordered this book last week and discovered that the first pages in the front of the book are 444-445, followed by the colophon and dedication page, then 448-449, 2-3, 452-453, 6-7, etc. This complete mishmash of page order continues throughout the majority of the book. I initiated a return and ordered a new copy only to discover it has the same exact problem. I’ve contacted the publisher, but for now DO NOT PURCHASE FROM THIS LISTING.

⭐Man, I love Terry Pratchett’s Disc World books. But this one was printed with the end pages at the beginning and no page number 1 to start off the book. I returned it to Amazon and they immediately sent a replacement, thanks. However the replacement had a similar problem with end pages at the beginning, but at least has a page 1. So, rather than trying for a third time. I’ll just read it as is and put up with the first 15 pages or so being out of order.

⭐The first time I read the Night Watch series I read them in order. This time I’m reading them in reverse order, and seeing new connections. “Jingo” is about the foolishness of war, and takes its title from an old song: “We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do,We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too!” It has hilarious moments: seeing Vetinary playing his shell game among the Klatchians is, as they say in tvtropes, a crowning moment of both awesome and funny. But it also has moments of almost unbearable poignancy, as when the Disorganizer reports on events from the alternative timeline down the other leg of the Trousers of Time. A similar idea is later used to heartbreaking effect in the book “Night Watch”.In “Jingo” we get to see our old friends from the watch show some surprising sides: Nobby as feminist is especially fun. And once again Sam Vimes tries to make sense of a world where sometimes the crimes are so big you can’t arrest everyone involved. Or can you?

⭐For some reason, this book hasn’t been done as a recorded book.Well, it had been, but it hasn’t been released on Audible in the U.S. for some reason.I wonder if it’s all the warry overtones. See, this is about a war with a group that’s fairly Arabic looking. And that might not fly with an American audience in this generation.Which may have more to do with squeamishness than politics. Not sure about that one. Because Arabic means more than Muslim, and Muslim means more than terrorist. So there is that to ponder.Glad to read rather than listen to this book. I mostly listen to Pratchett. The dudes they had doing the audio are top shelf. It brings an exquisite dimension to Pratchett to hear the British timing in the lines. But after listening to most of the rest of Mr. Pratchett’s work, I liked reading one. I liked populating the book with the performers I like for the roles. Vimes as played by Jason Statham–Vetinari presented by Benedict Cumberbatch (possibly the least original casting in history)–my preferred casting of David Jason as Corporal Colon instead of as Albert.Just a different experience than listening to the books.And entirely biased.More Pratchett. Which means fun.Not much else to say, really. All Pratchett books are fun and a little bit chaotic. He’s an author with a unique capacity to deliver a consistently on-brand performance.

⭐I love this book (same as most of Sir Terry’s works), but as another review noted: sometimes you click on the Kindle link and it takes you to a stage adaptation. Previous comment was in September and this is Dec. 24th; problem still not resolved. I’d give the book itself five stars, but the issue with the links taking so long to fix…four stars until that’s fixed. It’s unkind to people who want to read the full novel, to have the links messed up. (That said, if you’re not sure which version you’re looking at? The digital stage adaptation showed as $9.01 to me, where the novel showed as closer to $10, and the cover of the stage adaptation SAYS it’s a stage adaptation. Read carefully.)

⭐Both the original and the replacement were defective. There was a printing/binding issue and the pages were not in the correct order and possibly missing. Nonplussed that the website wouldn’t let me chat with a human being to explain the issue and that someone needs to manually check the books to make sure it’s not a bad batch. Had a similar problem with a couple of pages missing from another discworld book. Whoever is doing the printing for the series seems to not have a very good quality control system in place. Great series, crappy production.

⭐The city watch novels started with Corporal Carrot being the center of the story, but Pratchett found his muse in Sam Vimes – who has several different titles, depending on where in the series you are, and how nice Lord Vetinari feels towards Vimes that week.Jingo was written in 1997, when Pratchett was hitting his stride with the Disc and the world was less medieval and more Victorian. By this point, Pratchett was pulling in the real world and bringing it to wonderful parody by showing the hypocrisies inherent in the actions we take. He’s able to ameliorate this by the fantasy tropes that the world is set in, but they are no less true because they take place on a flat world supported by four elephants on the back of a giant space turtle.Jingo looks at the nature of conflict and self-definition and nationalism – who are we and what we do we stand for? The precipitating event is that an island rises in the circle sea, and is claimed by two competing powers, Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali.There is palace intrigue, some derring-do, and lessons learned. In the end, we learn that those we go to war with are just like you and I, but perhaps it is the ones that lead us to war that we should be most wary of. Reading it felt odd, as if it was a response to the drumbeats that lead the Anglo countries to war in 2003, but it was written years in advance. It just goes to show that the will to power is universal, the only shame is that there was no Sam Vimes in Baghdad, ready to save the day.

⭐I have read most of the Discworld series, love Terry’s writing and have re-read a number of titles over the years. However, this is the only one I couldn’t finish (& I like to read to the end out of principle!). For me the main idea seemed to be spread too thin / laboured, there was a lot of fractured speech & I couldn’t keep track of some of the characters; I prefer more narration. If you are new to Discworld I would not start with this, but rather one which features the Witches, Death or the Unseen University. To re-iterate, I think Terry was a genius, the Discworld series is superb and his collaborative work is brilliant too (try Good Omens with Neil Gaiman), but this particular book just wasn’t for me.

⭐This book was well composed and written in the inimitable style of Terry Pratchett. A squaring up of Klatchians to Ankh Morporkians could only cause a variety of outcomes to ensue. The book featured a lot of cultural references of both sides and was stupendous. This book is superb and thoroughly entertaining like all the other discworld books. Klatch is based on a medieval Arab state and I as a Muslim, enjoyed this book immensely. Sourcery is another brilliant book as well. This book is amazing, innovative and dazzling in its drama and humour in its storytelling. I will be looking forward to obtain the Audiobook recording with Nigel Planer as well!!!

⭐The similarities with the relationships between any existing nations or states are purely coincidental and the reader needs to bear this in mind throughout. It’s another amazingly astute mixture of cod history and rattling good yarn from Terry Pratchett. I particularly like the alternative versions of the veni, vidi, vici expression and the portrayal of Leonardo.

⭐As ever the amazing Terry Pratchet gives a hilarious but cutting insight into the situations affecting our own world , many of which are relevant today.The leaders of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork are surprised when a new island surfaces in the sea halfway between them. It is useless except for being strategically positioned and for being an issue to raise Illfeeling, racial intolerance and a reason for politicians to have a jolly good war….. Which was their plan anyway!It’s down to Commander Vimes and the brave men of the watch to figure out the underlying situation, try to prevent lynch mobs attacking ” foreign citizens ” of AM and working out how far he can go to wage “war on war”.I love the Discworld books and particularly how Sir Terry uses it to reflect back on the humanity and moral compass of this world. The war with Klatch which could be seen as an “Arabic” type nation has so many facets directly appropriate to this day and age and yet he manages to show how ridiculous some things are with genuine laugh out loud moments.Corporal Nobs doing the dance of the seven veils….now there’s an image……

⭐Terry Pratchett was a genius. It’s incredible how quite a lot of the jingoistic goings on are playing out quite evidently in the UK in 2020. TP’s turn of phrase and humour makes me smile regularly throughout the book, though I felt the story lost a bit of impetus through some of the second half, though the twist at the end was great.

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