I must have read the Watch books before I was 17, because Jingo was the first one I got in hardback because I couldn't wait for the paperback, yet I fell head over heels for Vimes from the start. I like Carrot, and I like Angua a lot, and I like the whole crowd as a crowd, but it was always Sam for me.

Odd, because I don't think I was very cynical - but then I'm not sure cynical is the right word for Vimes either - he might have been a lot less miserable in those days if he didn't believe there was a way things should be to contrast with the way they actually are...