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A review by dark_reader
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
5.0
Honk if you like Time Yetis.
This continues the trend of top-notch Discworld novels published around the turn of the twenty-first century, when Sir Terry was at the peak of his game. Every book during this period shows outstanding pacing, characters, humour, and analysis of human nature.
Thief of Time could potentially be read as a standalone book for the Disc-curious, but I think this one will go down best with at least a little bit of prior Discworld experience first, but one needs not read every preceding Death subseries novel (most of which were not the best).
This book features:
-the best performance to date by an Igor, providing some excellent read-aloud dialogue;
-the only good appearance to date of the Auditors;
-lovely ties to [b:Small Gods|34484|Small Gods (Discworld, #13)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390899426l/34484._SY75_.jpg|1636629];
-a perfect cameo appearance by Nanny Ogg;
-re-use of the name 'Lobsang', clearly Pratchett's go-to nomenclature for monk-type figures. There was an Abbot Lobsang briefly in [b:Mort|386372|Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388181166l/386372._SY75_.jpg|1857065], and he uses the name again in his non-Discworld [b:The Long Earth|13147230|The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1335532694l/13147230._SY75_.jpg|18164154] series.
This continues the trend of top-notch Discworld novels published around the turn of the twenty-first century, when Sir Terry was at the peak of his game. Every book during this period shows outstanding pacing, characters, humour, and analysis of human nature.
Thief of Time could potentially be read as a standalone book for the Disc-curious, but I think this one will go down best with at least a little bit of prior Discworld experience first, but one needs not read every preceding Death subseries novel (most of which were not the best).
This book features:
-the best performance to date by an Igor, providing some excellent read-aloud dialogue;
-the only good appearance to date of the Auditors;
-lovely ties to [b:Small Gods|34484|Small Gods (Discworld, #13)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390899426l/34484._SY75_.jpg|1636629];
-a perfect cameo appearance by Nanny Ogg;
-re-use of the name 'Lobsang', clearly Pratchett's go-to nomenclature for monk-type figures. There was an Abbot Lobsang briefly in [b:Mort|386372|Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388181166l/386372._SY75_.jpg|1857065], and he uses the name again in his non-Discworld [b:The Long Earth|13147230|The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)|Terry Pratchett|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1335532694l/13147230._SY75_.jpg|18164154] series.