More of the same from the master (Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett)

Member Name: chizel

Product:	Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Date:	12/05/01 (72 review reads)
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Advantages: Tought-provoking

Disadvantages: none

This book is possibly the most complex Terry has ever written, and therefore not one for newcomers to the Discworld series. It is, needless to say absolutely brilliant. I won't give away the plot but scattered throughout the book are cultural reference to Kung-Fu & Bond films, the kind of Jeeves/Wooster relationship between Lu-Tze and Lobsang,(ie. who is REALLY the master), "Reservoir Dogs" (absolutely hilarious when the auditors begin to run out of colour names. Miss Taupe, anyone?) and of course The Beatles (in Ronnie, the Fifth Horseman who left before they became famous but isn't bitter. Oh no.) It also shows how chocolate can be used as an anti-personnel weapon(!)and elaborates on the road to Elightenment as taught by Mrs. Cosmopolite and embraced by Lu-Tze.

More seriously, it all takes place in that area where (to use a heavily paraphrased Pratchett-ism) Philosophy & Physics wear each others clothes, and before you know it, you've actually Learned Something. I suppose it is could be classified as Stealth Education really. But who's complaining?

In short, it shows why Terry WILL still be read in decades to come, for the very same reasons that Dickens, Hardy and (a more parallel example) P.G.Wodehouse are still avidly read today.

Me? I'm going back to read the book again. If I've got Time, of course...

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