Night Watch (Watch #1)

Posted on 23 September 2017 by Sergei Lukyanenko

Others They walk among us Observing Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the Others, an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light The agents of the Dark the Night Watch oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales Now, that day has arrived When a mid level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting edge thriller, a pulse pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment. Best Download Night Watch (Watch #1) By Sergei Lukyanenko For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 2014 The reasons why I will never read another of Lukyanenko s books are at the bottom of the review 2012We don t even know how to wish evil on anyone Except that our Good is not any different from Evil How do you write the real Russian urban fantasy Spice up your standard recipe with extreme moral ambiguity, questioning of morals and purpose, blend the distinctions between the forces of dark and light creating moral greyness, add questionable authority figures, question 2014 The reasons why I will never read another of Lukyanenko s books are at the bottom of the review 2012We don t even know how to wish evil on anyone Except that our Good is not any different from Evil How do you write the real Russian urban fantasy Spice up your standard recipe with extreme moral ambiguity, questioning of morals and purpos...I can t get over the suspicion I m reading this in the wrong language.Simple, really I am I m reading it in English.The philosophy of language makes me dizzy the chicken egg relationship between cognition and verbal expression means that something is likely lost in translation thesophisticated or fantastical a thought becomes Even simple phrases have deeper meaning Take the concept I have to walk the dog Not too hard, is it Except in translating, do you use the pronoun I or is it I can t get over the suspicion I m reading this in the wrong language.Simple, really I am I m reading it in English.The philosophy of language makes me dizzy the chicken egg relationship between cognition and verbal expression means that something is likely lost in translation thesophisticated or fantastical a thought becomes Even simple phrases have deeper meaning Take the concept I have to walk the dog Not too hard, is it Except in translating, do you use the pronoun I or is it implied in the verb If you leave the I out, are you implying something about importance of self What about walk and dog In English, walk tends to imply aleisurely pace In America, there is often an implication of economics and soci...So I was strolling through a thrift shop one day a few weeks ago and came across this book on a sale table I had never heard of it before but was intrigued by a blurb on the cover that said Brace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park The Night Watch takes place mostly in and around Moscow The book is really broken down into three parts but all three focus on Anton who is an Other, working with the Night Watch Others can be shape shifters, magicians etc., the main point being that they So I was strolling through a thrift shop one day a fe...You know, I ve read this entire book and met quite a few Russians and I still don t understand them though I think, as a nation and hodge podge of ethnicities, they re one of my favourites Apart from the Irish, but who can t love those crazy, drunk, lucky bastards Okay, for legal purposes I am forced to clarify that they are not always crazy, drunk, lucky, illegitimate or a combination of one orof those characteristics This is an unfortunate stereotype propagated against the great peop You know, I ve read this entire book and met quite a few Russians and I still don t understand them though I think, as a nation and hodge podge of ethnicities, they re one of my favourites Apart from the Irish, but who can t love those crazy, drunk, lucky bastards Okay, for legal purposes I am forced to clarify that they are not always crazy, drunk, lucky, illegitimate or a combination of one orof those characteristics This is an unfortunate stereotype propagated against the great people of Ireland Basically this book was a culmination of every Russian stereotype that I absolutely love Anton Gorodetsky is a fourth sometimes third level magician or Other working for the side of light in mostly present day Moscow He is littlethan a COMPLETELY AWESOME computer program who doesn t appear to have any great destiny in front of him until he stumbles across a woman, SvetlanaNightwatch takes you from the beginning of their romance, wh...Final rating 3 5 starsWhy was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do EvilI have no idea what to say about this I liked it and disliked it Both, equally I loved it because the idea is unique and there is a lot of thinking about consequences, life in general and lotBut i felt that the story was Final rating 3 5 starsWhy was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do EvilI have no idea what to say about this I liked it and disliked it Both, equally I loved it because the idea is unique and there is a lot of thinking about consequences, life in general ...For the past month or so I have been regrettably absent from the nets that I like to call my digital home Real life demands have left me with precious little time to call my own and,frightening still, the books that have found their way into my hands have not been inspiring me to take to the webs and shout my opinions into the ether with my usual gusto Yes, I was in the grip of a mid winter malaise second to none where everything I read, saw, or listened to just seemed either like it was For the past month or so I have been regrettably absent from the nets that I like to call my digital home Real life demands have left me with precious little time to call my own and,frightening still, the books that have found their way into my hands have not been inspiring me to take to the webs and shout my opinions into the ether with my usual gusto Yes, I was in the grip of a mid winter malaise second to none where everything I read, saw, or listened to just seemed either like it was trying too hard to be something that it wasn t or was emotionally empty pap that entertained but left little behind in its passing This was true until I finally cracked the spine on Sergei Lukyanenko s fantastic Night Watch Finally, a book that was everything I wanted to read at that mom...I read Sergei Lukyanenko s Night Watch after having already seen the films based on it The movie Night Watch isor less a faithful adaptation of the first section of the book with a few embellishments The movie Day Watch is a much looser adaptation of the second and third sections.On the first page of the book, there are two messages One from the Night Watch that reads This text had been approved for distribution as conducive t... Night Watch is an amazing piece of Russian literature, definitelythan just your average run of the mill horror and full of creativity, imagination and depth behind the paranormal.3.5 stars This had some interesting ideas and story lines but the delivery was clunky because of the translation In some ways it was like the Russian version of Rivers of London, but not as funny or readable This was a reread and I fi...Rusi ko Rusi, preterano filozofiraju ak i kad pi u fantastiku Ocena 3.5

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23 September 2017

Sergei Lukyanenko