Great Books: Night Watch: A Novel of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett

Sam Vimes, Commander of City Watch of Ankh-Morpork, must confront his younger self as the Watch faces one of its darkest times. Comical, powerful and pertinent, Commander Vimes tries to impress on Lance Constable Vimes the differences between being a police officer and being a soldier. Doug Patterson, professor of science-astronomy, presents; Great Books: Night Watch: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett This presentation, in the new JCCC CoLab, is part of the fall 2016 Great Books Mini-Lecture Series, which is designed to introduce you to watershed texts that have changed their readers’ views of the world. It’s a series of short talks on great books. The Great Books series is sponsored by the JCCC English/Journalism Common Read program. For more information on this and other happenings at the college, visit http://www.jccc.edu.