tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112925820320944611.post8320487195361180662..comments2024-03-19T03:18:54.509-06:00Comments on Hot Chicks Dig Smart Men: A Month of Literary Gratitude, Day 14 - Night Watch, by Terry PratchettJaniecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06223994862015217811noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112925820320944611.post-7253219879912325532016-11-15T07:33:54.489-07:002016-11-15T07:33:54.489-07:00Night Watch is my very favorite of all the Discwor...Night Watch is my very favorite of all the Discworld books, and I've read them all.<br /><br />It's the darkest of the series, and in many ways the most humane. I've used the boots theory in my history classes because it gets across a complex notion in such an elegantly simple way.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112925820320944611.post-63121870106047509722016-11-14T15:21:58.087-07:002016-11-14T15:21:58.087-07:00I love that book and the whole Night Watch arc. An...I love that book and the whole Night Watch arc. And all the other arcs except Rincewind. :)<br /><br />Just because I can, here is my favorite Discworld bit--besides OOK.<br /><br /><em><br /> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.<br /><br /> Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.<br /><br /> But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.<br /><br /> This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.<br /></em>Random Michelle Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817444379694818074noreply@blogger.com