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Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett |
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11/06/01 (19 review reads) |
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Advantages: It's funny, cool and engaging
Disadvantages: I'd like to see it taken in a new direction
The latest book has been released. Is it a good one? Well yes, undeniably good. But does it get the five sar treatment?
The book centres around Time. The Auditors (those horrible grey things that we saw in Reaper Man I believe) have retruned and want to stop time. The do so by making someone make a clock. In the meantime Susan and the History Monks set out to stop this from happening.
Classic Pratchett. People have said this book is complex. I don't see why. The ending is the usual mishmash of dimensional rift sealing, and there are some twists and turns, but this is not that complex a book! So don't be put off.
If anything the book is lacking in com-plex character interaction. The new characters are amusing (Lobsang and Lu-Tze), but nothing special. In effect the book seems to have been plugged into a framework of Pratchettian contrivance, and set to run, developping characters and situations that are fun, amusing, but all in all a light read.
Not a bad thing - if that is what you want. Laughter and snorts of amusement are there, and an engaging plot, but to be honest I personally would like to see Mr Pratchett delve into more complex storylines and more epic arcs (Oh yes - the world is going to end AGAIN, but why not have a WAR occur, or some other threat rather than the end of the world, or the end of Ankh-Morpork).
It is the 26th book in a fabulous series, but I think it is time to start looking in a new direction.
The book is GOOD and I do recommend it - my critscisms are not so much directed at this individual book, but at the trend of the last five books or so to lack the epic scope of some of his predecessors. Slow down, collect some cracking ideas, and put them all in a book, don't stretch three ideas so far. Explore the characters a little more. This one was action packed with very little actual sitting back and reflecting.
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- 12/06/01 I have only ever read one of Pratchett's book(reaper man)and thought it was an excellent and very funny book.
I do plan on reading more:)'''Nico la |
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- 11/06/01 True, very true, although his writing style and humour is so infectious that you can only forgive him for not being overtly forward-thinking. :-) |
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- 11/06/01 Very useful op - end of the world stories seem all to common and I too would like to see Mr Pratchett try his hand at something a bit more challenging - I think he has the potential to do a lot more than he does. |
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