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(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)

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Title: Thief of Time (Discworld Novel)
Author: Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552148407
EAN: 9780552148405
New Ed. Edition
432 Pages
Publisher: Corgi Books
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2002-05-01

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In Thief of Time 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 recalcitrant novice; and dairyman Ronnie Soak muses on his glory days, when he was the Fifth Rider of the Apocalypse, the one who left before they got famous.

Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time, confronts Discworld and a variety of its defenders with an insidious menace; never before has the phrase "The End of History" had quite so sinister a sound. As always, the sometimes startlingly surrealistically original, sometimes comfortingly groan-worthy, jokes are underlain by some intensely complex ideas and tight plotting. Susan makes a reappearance as one of Pratchett's more interesting heroines; the sinister Lady LeJean is one of Pratchett's most interesting villains, particularly once we learn the answer to the mystery about her.

There is an attractive darkness to much of the humour here--Pratchett is often at his best when at his darkest.--Roz Kaveney

2008-06-16 Clever, funny but meaningless

This was my first Pratchett book and I still don't know what all the fuss is about. It was clever in a schoolboy sort of way and funny in parts but by the end I found it rather tedious. TP has an amazing imagination and he takes us on a fantastic tour - but ultimately it is just froth - fun, lightweight and meaningless.