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Exclusive Satisfaction Rating: 90% Based on 24 reviews.
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Search eBay for this item. Release Date: June 13, 2007
Publication Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Sergei Lukyanenko
Package Dimensions (in inches): 1.2 x 7.8 x 5.1
Package Weight: 0.55 pounds
Audio Tracks/Subtitles: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781401360214
ISBN: 1401360211
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publisher: Miramax
Studio: Miramax
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Editorial/Description:Product Description: Night Watch and Day Watch, the first two books in this remarkable series, established Sergei Lukyanenko as a breathtakingly bold talent. Part fantasy, part vampire story, and part detective potboiler, this is the most successful science fiction series of all time in Russia and a true international sensation. In America, Fox Searchlight released the film adaptation of Night Watch to rapturous reviews, and adaptations of the next two books are in production. The world of Lukyanenko is as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov: Living among us are the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. A thousand-year treaty has maintained the balance of power, and the two sides coexist in an uneasy truce. In Dusk Watch, the Others face their greatest threat yet. A renegade Other, his identity as yet unknown, has absconded with a fabled spell-book of untold power and appears bent on attacking the entire earth. Now forces of the Light and the Dark -- the Night Watch and the Day Watch -- must cooperate to stop him. Anton, the hero from Night Watch, is back, but when the culprit turns out to be none other than his partner, the race against time becomes more urgent than ever. In a world where reality and magic commingle, and where different degrees of existence are layered one atop the other, nothing is ever quite what it seems.
Customer Reviews:
Great book
October 24, 2008
I never thought I'd get into stories about mythical beings but these books drew me in. The author is so crafty and a great storyteller. The whole series plays out like a huge chess game between good and evil and has a lot of philosophical debate in it as well. I really enjoyed every book in this series.
Plot Story. A MUST READ
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September 22, 2008
Walking the streests of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Posesseors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilifht, a shadowy world that exits in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light.
As his wife Svetlana and daughter Nadya spend the last of the summer on a dacha not far from Moscow, Night Watch AgentAnton Gorodetsky is thrying to enjoy his last day off. But when a call comes in from Gesar - his boss and Night Watch head - requesting a private meeting, it becomes clear he's going back to work early...
Gesar has received an anonymous note, stating that an Other has revealed the full truth about their kind to a human, and now intends to do the supposedly impossible: comvert that human into an Other. Even nore worringly. tje not has been sent to Zabulon, head of the Day Watch, and to the Inquisition's offices - and only the very highest-level Others know the address. So the Inquistion has ordered the Night Watch to cooperate withthe Day Watch and umnask the culprit. Anton will be the Night Watch representative while the Day Watch is sending Kostya Saushkin, once Anton's teenage neighbour and idealistic friend, now a Higher Vampire and, at the age of twenty, the youngest in Europe...
Set in a vividly realised post-Soviest Moscow, where vampires operate under license and Good and Evil exist in a Cold War-like balance of power, THE TWILIGHT WATCH is a page-turning fantasy thriller in the allegorical, darkly comic tradition of Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MAGARITA, an international bestseller as strikingly original as Anne Rice or Phillip Pullman.
Twilight Watch
May 8, 2008
This is an excellently written book, and the Russian/English Translator has done a great job with it. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a great book to read. My wife, ReynaVoop turned me on to this series, and as always, she was right about this book.
Now I have to wait for number 4!!!!
March 6, 2008
Ok, after about a month of shipping problems I finally got it! (It was user error originally, to give them some credit).
Loved it. Now, don't just go and buy Twilight Watch and read it first, cuz then it might not make much sense. Read in order. But narratively speaking, this is AWESOME!
There were a couple times when I flinched while reading when Anton made jabs at the USA. I won't lie. But it wasn't something really dwelled on, but it was jarring enough to be remembered.
You get to see Kostya again, who we only got a glimpse of in NightWatch, and quite a bit of him too. There wasn't long remembrances like in DayWatch. It was an adrenaline rush as in constant action and intrigue. The writing was so much better (either that or the translator did a much better job) than the first two and quicker paced.
About the characterization. Anton in the last one (DayWatch) seemed more like a puppy dog that you wanted to kick (yes, I get frustrated by made-up characters)(I do NOT endorse or practice the act of kicking puppies). This one he again became the guy we fell in love with in NightWatch. Svetlana also shines. Some of the characters who were more prominent before (Gesar, Olga, the rest of the NightWatch and pretty much all the DayWatch) take a backseat. The Inquisition takes a step forward, so we get to see more of Edgar and Weitzlav.
NightWatch and DayWatch were great books but had to keep reverting to what happened (a lot of explanations, a lot of history, a lot of back story) which makes sense when you get into a series. TwilightWatch managed to break the mold though and it was like you got to experience things first hand as they were happening.
Number 4 (LastWatch) needs to hurry up and come out now! I can't wait.
DEFINITELY recommend!
Awesome
January 12, 2008
If you have read the 1st two, you have to read this one. Fast action and sets things up for the last book hopefully to be released by summer of 08. If you love the supernatural like I do these books are a must read.
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