The Night\Day\Twillight Watch

oxygen_old

With the book The Twilight Watch(3/3) released, reminded me of The Night Watch (1/3). Anyone else think this book was not that good at all?
I mean I’m a OK with witches, vampires, warlocks, werewolves etc. etc. and even fine with them all agreeing to a peace treaty. It would still make good fantastical reading.

But I don’t think this author managed to pull it off that well, it had a feeling of being made up as it went along.

“Vampires, cool I’ll throw some in,
vortexes, great, Ill figure out how to throw them in.
A parallel zone where they can meet and exist. I’ll call it a Twilight zone, brilliant! Where do I come up with this stuff”.

I read the first one, and have no inclination to read any of the sequels.

cautioner

Yeah, I've read the three of them, and while I wasn't blown away, I kind of want to contradict you there. I like the way the 3 stories in each book manage to come together nicely at the end; doesn't feel at all like it's made up as it goes along. It's probably more noticable in books 2 and 3.

But the translator is awful; he hardly knows how to form a sentence without making it totally unwieldy, and he uses commas where he should use semicolons. Grammar nazi I am not, and I'm not saying I never do it, but he's paid for it and he should know these things.

I like the Nightwatch movie, it puts a lot less emphasis on the magic and amulets and stuff.

Apparently there's a fourth book as well, even though all my copies have "Book (1/2/3) of the Night Watch Trilogy" on the cover. Odd.

oxygen_old

I didnt realise that it was originally wrote in Russian and translated. That could be it.
Nyways, think Ill stick to hard sci fi. I like a bit of explanation behing magicy stuff.

I couldnt make sense of the movie, Im hoping the book clears it up a little. xtra vision have the two movies in a cheapish enough box set I think

cautioner

The movies deviate a lot from the books, even more so in movie 2, which is loosely based on story 2 of book 1, and not book 2, if you catch my drift.

So using one to try and make sense of the other will probably just confuse matters further.

oxygen_old

Yea, I read that all right.

Forget that so. Im heading back to my hard sci-fi.
Should never have left it

RonMexico

Picked up the nightwatch movie, half an hour in I knocked it off - complete tripe.

oxygen_old

apparantly the day watch movie makes more sense. I dont know tho, the first one wasnt up to much at all

rejkin

RonMexico wrote: »

Picked up the nightwatch movie, half an hour in I knocked it off - complete tripe.

Really? I actually liked it,was a strange film and thats why i liked it,though never bothered with the second film,the whole car driving along a builidng put me off,too over the top. Now i tried to read the first book but found it too hard to follow and i have a feeling if i was fluent in russian it would make more sense in russian.