Inktober #10: Commander Vimes
Added 2017-10-10 20:46:47 +0000 UTCJust a very quick one today - I was torn between doing two better ones tomorrow, or skipping today, and in the end I decided to go through with this.
Commander Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It took me a long time to pick up Discworld. I'd made the mistake of getting the first book in German, and the translation felt to me so cumbersome and laboured that I couldn't get through the first page.
It was a decade before I picked any Terry Pratchett up again. This time, it was "Guards! Guards!", in English, and I loved it straight away. I still haven't read anything from the Discworld series apart from the Night Watch books, but those I love. Vimes is so much fun. He's totally unlike anyone else on this list.
His likeness is based on the late and wonderful Pete Postlethwaite. The pteryges (leather straps) have been stolen from Doris L.'s depiction of him. XD
Comments
I've only read a few Discworld books, but I have a lasting fondness for "Equal Rites" and if more books had continued to follow Eskarina's story I may have stayed longer in that world.
Gwendolyn
2017-10-11 20:42:32 +0000 UTCI like InkTober more with every passing day! Vimes is a fun and interesting character, and you've captured him gorgeously. Wonderful little treasures we got so far this month, and almost in passing you also remind me of other books that I really should pick up again (or start reading to my daughter).
Kerstin Renger
2017-10-11 13:27:59 +0000 UTCVimes is one of my favorite characters from Discworld. I've read a bunch of them, though by no means all. One of my future projects is to start from the beginning and read one a month or so.
Steven Tryon
2017-10-10 20:51:21 +0000 UTC
