Thief of Time: Discworld, Book 26

It was a very good, very funny book!

It's Discworld, do you really need to check the reviews? Every Discworld book is a masterpiece! Read them all right away! This one is my favorite of them all, I think. I've read this story many times and look forward to passing it on to my kids when they're old enough. Now hurry, go and read Discworld!

Excellent book. The kindle version used to be riddled with typos and bad formatting. It's much better now, though there are still a few minor errors in the ebook.Errata:• p144: Change "BADABINGBADABOOM" to "BADABING-BADABOOM" (hyphenation).• p213: Change "' Ere" to "'Ere" (whitespace).• p214: Change ">BINKY" to "BINKY" (unicode).• p420 About the Author: Change "Pratchett?s" to "Pratchett's" (unicode).

The last few weeks, my reading has been monopolized by the mind of Terry Pratchett. I have been sucked into the Discworld, and I am just fine with that. I sought out experts on which order to read the books, since there is no one straight linear way to read the books.I read the entire sequence centered on Death (and his extended family) first, since my introduction to the world of the Disc was the movie version of _Hogfather_.I bought the first one, _Mort_, just to see if I would like it. I liked it well enough; I bought the next two books in the series on the Death story-arc. A quarter of the way through the second book, I bought the final two books of the arc.I neared the end of one of those books and I bought the first three books from the "Guards" story-arc. At this point, I have only read one of those books, the first _Guards, Guards_. I was pleased, since I have to admit that I was a bit worried about the continuity of quality between story-arcs. Was I just interested in the character of Death, or did I like the world as a whole?It turns out that I like the world as a whole, and this is a huge strength of Pratchett. I want to learn about all the inhabitants and read all the stories, no matter how tangential. I don't usually keep many books in my wish list, but it is now filled up with Discworld books. He builds a world like Vonnegut did. There are many familiar elements of the world we inhabit but there is the magic element that rips from genre fiction: what Vonnegut did with science-fiction, Pratchett does with fantasy elements.There are a couple of things about the series generally that I really enjoyed. The first is what you try to develop as a writer, a unique voice. I've been struggling on finding the right word to really describe what I would characterize as Pratchett's voice. It is arch and tongue-in-cheek and just fun if you've read enough. He's a post-modern Tolkien, but that's a little off.Secondly, he is funny, and he's not afraid to go for the easy joke. There are puns-galore, if you like that sort of thing. I happen to. There is one very memorable one that he just sort of sneaks in during _Soul Music_. He takes the reader 90% of the way to the pay-off but allows the slow dawning to set on the reader, so that a bad pun feels like it was done masterfully. Which it is, it really is.If I had to make a critique of the books in the series that I have read so far is that I have read them too fast. My wife often tells me to slow down and enjoy the books you like, but I seldom listen to her. I should have here. There have been a couple of times that I enjoying the ride so much, I didn't even bother to remember what I had just read. I had to go and reread the last 50 pages of _Guards, Guards_ because of this. I enjoyed it too much.Otherwise, this is an unqualified recommendation for the Discworld books. Spend some time there, you won't regret it.

Most laughs per page of any author whose books I have read!

Wonderful characters. Humour to make me giggle in public. A story with feeling and depth. Unexpected hero’s and a tale that draws you into the Diskworld until you forget where you are in the real world. I loved every moment. Read 26 so far and this is my favorite to date!

What if time was living being? So many ideas are brought to life in these books and they make you wonder. The four horsemen we know, but what of the fifth? I really liked Lu Tze before and this one brings his story into focus. The Auditors remind me so much of the Watchers and their idea has been used in various ways before. This whole story is so much fun to be immersed in. As usual there is a great mix of characters both new and old. Some parts of the story prove that it is best if you read them in order and some of the facts are more understandable if you've read the previous books. And now I move on to the only story in this group that Is only available in a hardcopy.

Rule #1: "Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"When young, orphaned Lobsang Ludd of the Time Monks is apprenticed to the monastery's little bald wrinkly smiling sweeper he is at first disappointed. Then he learns who Lu-Tze really is: a sweeper, yes; but also a renowned patcher-upper of time.Time has already been stopped once in the Universe, which had the effect of shattering history into millions of detached fragments. Only Lu-Tze and the Time Monks were able to patch the pieces back together again.Now someone else is once again building the perfect clock that will stop Time for good. This time the Universe will be destroyed if he is not caught. Unfortunately no one, not even Death seems to know where to find the clock-builder.Death calls on his fellow riders, War, Pestilence, and Famine to get ready for the Ride at the End of Time, and delegates the task of finding the clock maker to his daughter, Susan.Meanwhile Lu-Tze and his apprentice, Lobsang Ludd are also on the trail of the man who would stop the Universe.Will they find him in time? Or out of time?"Thief of Time" is crammed with word-play, sly shards of philosophy (see Rule #1), and countless subplots (there is a Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse named Ronnie, who runs a dairy in his spare time). It's like reading a land mine. I'll usually be a couple of sentences beyond the point where something blew up in my face, before I mutter, "what the hell happened?"For example, "it never rains but it pours."A jug.Steal some time for Pratchett. This book is one of his best.

I bought my first Discworld novel over 40 years ago, and have had to make a strict rule, that the books do not leave the house. Everyone who starts one, is hooked. The greatest pleasure is re-reading the series, from the beginning, and still finding intricate details that were previously overlooked. It is amazing to see how far in advance he builds in the cornerstones for future books. His social commentary is profound, and I would consider him to be one of the greatest writers of original English literature of the 20th century.His early demise will be mourned.

I am very excited to start reading the series discworld.Even though there are some minor damage it's not a big deal to me. Text is big enough to readWithout any issue.

Before reading "Thief of Time" you should probably have read both "Small Gods" and, at least, "Hogfather", probably all the other books with Death/Susan as major characters. If you have read the rest of Discworld the themes of individual/collective responsibility and claiming/forming personal identity will not be new, but here these play out in a particularly wonderful way.Pratchett has always been a master of the montage, with small scenes adding up to a narrative. Here he combines the flashbacks to when Wen (pun intended) first realised that time could be manipulated, to the impending catastrophe of time being broken. There are nods to quantum theory and a load of sciencey, timey-wimey stuff that people smarter than me might get, but for me, the idea of chocolate as a weapon is the winner. The main characters are great, Susan and Lu-tze were already known when I first read this book, but the new characters are also engaging as they get to know themselves. The auditors are suitable heinous as the villains that are just grey, until they attempt to be human and become reservoir dogs versions of humanity.I bought this book in hardback many years ago and this new purchase was the kindle version, as I wanted some comfort reading. One of the great things about discworld as the multi-layered narrative, which reveals something new on each reading, although the chocolate references feel mouth-wateringly new everytime.

Libro en mal estado en los bordes por mala manipulación por parte de Amazon, me compré 5 y todos vienen con los bordes gastados y en mal estado, una pena teniendo en cuenta lo bonita con lo bonita que es esta edición

Very happy to receive the book. Everything was perfect. Thank you for packing and sending my book on time and in very good condition.