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Thief of Time (Discworld Novel) | 
 enlarge | Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Corgi
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 5315641
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
ISBN: 0552154261
EAN: 9780552154260
ASIN: 0552154261
Publication Date: October 14, 2008 (In 54 Days)
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Product Description
Time is of the essence in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there’s never enough time.
But the construction of the world’s first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone’s problems.
Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes, villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).
From the Compact Disc edition.
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Steal some time for Pratchett January 25, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 grand-daughter, Susan.
Meanwhile Lu-Tze and his apprentice, Lobsang 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.
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