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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2013-07-03 09:37 pm

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

Thief of Time (Discworld, #26)Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Discworld. A one-off about a timepocalypse. This didn't do much for me. It sets up a lot of higher order dualities – order vs. chaos, that sort of thing – and then just sort of leaves them flapping in the breeze. I kept reaching out for more and pulling my hand back clutching a pile of ethnic stereotypes and a few puns. The puns were punny, at least? I want to say something high school book report here about the way this book breaks the usual thematic association between time and death, but even that is shallow and not doing it for me.

Oh, except Susan. Susan is THE BEST.




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