Guards, Guards! was one of the first Discworld books I ever read, and, aww, that scene in the dungeon with Vimes and Vetinari...first that Vetinari reconstructed his power base with rats (and arranged for the rats to beat out the scorpions and snakes!!!) and then the moment when Vimes realizes that Vetinari arranged for all the locks to be all on the inside...that was such an awesome moment. I fell irrevocably in love with Vetinari then. ♥ And then basically every other scene I've ever read with him in it just made it better.
After Vetinari, my favorite character is probably one of the Times staff, or maybe all three members of the Times staff. I kind of love them a lot. Although to be honest I love all the main Discworld characters a lot. (And there are so many awesome women in Discworld, which makes such a great change from so much genre fiction where there's...maybe or one two awesome women per series.)
The politics of Ankh-Morpork are fascinating. like, reading Night Watch and seeing how much the politics have changed since Vetinari took charge and organized the Guilds and just make everything work, to the degree where people might hate him and call him a tyrant but they have to acknowledge that life with Vetinari is massively preferable to life without.
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Date: 2009-12-31 12:18 am (UTC)After Vetinari, my favorite character is probably one of the Times staff, or maybe all three members of the Times staff. I kind of love them a lot. Although to be honest I love all the main Discworld characters a lot. (And there are so many awesome women in Discworld, which makes such a great change from so much genre fiction where there's...maybe or one two awesome women per series.)
The politics of Ankh-Morpork are fascinating. like, reading Night Watch and seeing how much the politics have changed since Vetinari took charge and organized the Guilds and just make everything work, to the degree where people might hate him and call him a tyrant but they have to acknowledge that life with Vetinari is massively preferable to life without.