Katherine's review
Thief of Time: A Discworld Novel (Mass Market Paperback) by Terry Pratchett
A small disclaimer for this review: I read this book mostly while I had a fever, so I can't be held accountable for accuracy.
This is the second Pratchett book I've read and though I enjoy him, it's hard for me to shake the thought that I'm reading Douglas Adams light, set in a Dungeons and Dragons fantasy land instead of sci-fi outer space. That's not altogether a bad thing though b/c I Adams is one of my very favorite authors and he did not leave this world with too many books.
Thief of Time, appropriately, had some really interesting observations on the nature of time. How we spend it, waste it, kill it, etc. These observations made the book for me. It is generally funny, the characters enjoyable and quirky enough, but it's kind of run of the mill stuff you've seen before. But the peppering of genius dissections made it rise above. It was one of those books you just tear through, sucking down the story, but then out of nowhere you're struck by this quick, sentence-long...more
This is the second Pratchett book I've read and though I enjoy him, it's hard for me to shake the thought that I'm reading Douglas Adams light, set in a Dungeons and Dragons fantasy land instead of sci-fi outer space. That's not altogether a bad thing though b/c I Adams is one of my very favorite authors and he did not leave this world with too many books.
Thief of Time, appropriately, had some really interesting observations on the nature of time. How we spend it, waste it, kill it, etc. These observations made the book for me. It is generally funny, the characters enjoyable and quirky enough, but it's kind of run of the mill stuff you've seen before. But the peppering of genius dissections made it rise above. It was one of those books you just tear through, sucking down the story, but then out of nowhere you're struck by this quick, sentence-long...more
