Confession time - I've never read Terry Pratchett. Maybe a short story or two along the way, but never a novel - and never his gigantic Discworld series. Now I understand the comparison to Douglas Adams and Monty Python. Good stuff!

This is a solid story from several points of view. A combination of mystery and fantasy battles, with a lot of city management thrown in. Both Carrot and the secret brotherhood act to throw a major wrinkle into the narrative. Favorite character? DEATH.

This book was largely borrowed for the computer game Discworld in 1995 (with Eric Idle voicing Rincewind). I'll have to go back and play that one more seriously, and of course read more of the Discworld series - probably continuing the Night Watch series.

The next in that series is a short-short story, available on the web - www.lspace.org/books/toc/toc-english.html