Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett Reviews

Title - Stone of Tears Main Characters Lu Tze - the Sweeper Lobsang Ludd - Apprentice monk Death - Himself Suzane - Deaths Granddaughter Ronnie - The Fifth Horseman Lady Myria - A Lady Who Wants A Perfect Clock Jeremy - An obsessive Clock maker Plot Outline "Time is a ...  Read the complete review

Come back with me to that strange world, where DEATH is more than a state of (non) being; where magic is real, and where Time really is a woman. The world is a flat disc, and is carried through space on the backs of four elephants, who, in turn rest on A'Tuin, the great turtle. Come with me to Terry Pratchett's Discworld, via the 26th ...  Read the complete review

Tick... Death sits at a desk in his study pondering the sights below him. What special event is about to happen on the Discworld and why have "they" chosen now to make an appearance and why mess with time itself? "SHOW ME A BEGINNING" he commands. Tick... We stumble across a ...  Read the complete review

I don't buy new books a lot. Seems to me that if Hunter S Thompson, J D Salinger or Franz Kafka can make their way to the shelves of the charity shops then paying full price for anything literary is going to be a disappointment. Well... mostly it is. And maybe if I'd waited until 'Thief of Time" was £1, I wouldn't ...  Read the complete review

Pratchett does it again with this materpeice of fiction The Auditors are back and they want the world to end well just stop so that nothing continues and there is nothing in the world to be concerned about. They comission the unsuspecting Jeremy to build the ulitimate clock a clock that is totaly and truely acurate. The ...  Read the complete review

In the great stinking metropolis of Ankh Morpork, an obsessed clockmaker receives an unusual commission from an excessively beautiful woman whose feet do not touch the ground; strict school-teacher Susan finds herself summoned by her grandfather Death, to do him a favour; the monks who manage the even distribution of Time find themselves with a ...  Read the complete review

I have all the discworlds (bar one the cat ate, or my little brother stole or something), I have read them from the Colour of Magic all the way through and they have improved slowly and kept on improving. I would say there was a small glitch with the Hogfather and then Terry was back on track. His last couple have been unnassailable, brilliant and ...  Read the complete review

I have just finished reading this book, and, as usual for a Discworld novel, the only thing that disappointed me was how quickly the story seemed to come to an end! I just can't get enough Pratchett! The book introduces us to the 'Monks of History' who control time by basically pinching it from one era where its not needed ...  Read the complete review

The Thief of Time is, I think, Pratchett’s 26th instalment in the ever-expanding Discworld series. If you’re a fan there’s no point in you even reading this review as you will have undoubtedly already bought, borrowed or begged a copy by now and no words from this reviewer will dissuade you. On the other hand if you are a ...  Read the complete review

Terry Pratchett's back at his most brilliant. Even non-Pratchett devotees will enjoy it. It's pure brain candy for the rest of us. Don’t read it on public transport. (You’ll start sniggering to yourself - even gently guffawing. This tends to make people assume you are not sane.) Thief of Time plays with a wide range ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

As someone who is a big, big fan of the disk world series, its hardly surprising to find that I simply love this book. Number 26 in the series, and right up there with the best of them, the thief of time is an invigorating read that fans and newcomers alike should not miss out upon. Filled with the usual Terry Pratchett humour and the usual ...  Read the complete review

Thief of Time is the 26th book in the Discworld series and in my opinion the Discworld books are getting better all the time. This book breaks away from the main characters who normally star in the discworld books (the witches, Rincewind, The City Watch and Death) and introduces some new characters, one of whom is young Lobsang Ludd, an ...  Read the complete review

Huge Pratchett fan. Huge. (Not fat. I mean I could do to lose a few pounds but....) Got it all - the figurines, the hardbacks, the video games etc. Favourite book - Lords and Ladies. I love this man. But I think he should stop writing these books and I think he should stop now. Its not that "Thief of Time" is a bad book. Far ...  Read the complete review

This is by no stretch of the imagination Terry Pratchett's geratest Discworld book to date. In total I laughed out loud only three times- I won't say specifically but it was to the back of the book as the story drew to a conclusion. The book itself contains some intersting ideas on time (which aren't necessarily true and so partly ...  Read the complete review

This is the 26th of Pratchetts discworld series and they seem to get better and better. This one is perhaps not the best one for someone who has not been introduced to the discworld before to read, as some of it depends on previous knowledge of the characters and it is a little complex. BUt if you have read the discworld before then prepared to ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Terry at his best. All I can say is roll on the next one in the series. - Advantages: The best, Terry , at his best - Disadvantages: None