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A review by rebner
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
5.0
OK, the end sucks ;). It is too short and too easy a conclusion, but you can say that about so many Pratchett Novels... it reminded me of "Reaper Man" even if then the supermarket creature was there a bit longer (but most of the time as a nuisance for the wizards).
For everybody who says, this is not a Pratchett Novel? I don't know what you've read. I admit it is not looking for the next laugh as hard as the Discworld series and word plays, footnotes etc. are not as important, but it has this social commentary tone, the fallible characters, this humanist view of the world, that man is sometimes stupid but inherently it could all work out and it has one thing that is common in all recent Pratchett novels, the plot has to step back, fit to the theme and help the humour, the characters and the commentary, holes and errors, characters popping up and vanishing etc. gratuitos.
And I still love it, just because it gives you this warm fuzzy feeling, that if we just could all be nice to each other, everything could work out in the end*, while at the same time ironically stating, "Not happening, mate!".
*Which Neil Gaiman gave as his political position in a newspaper interview
For everybody who says, this is not a Pratchett Novel? I don't know what you've read. I admit it is not looking for the next laugh as hard as the Discworld series and word plays, footnotes etc. are not as important, but it has this social commentary tone, the fallible characters, this humanist view of the world, that man is sometimes stupid but inherently it could all work out and it has one thing that is common in all recent Pratchett novels, the plot has to step back, fit to the theme and help the humour, the characters and the commentary, holes and errors, characters popping up and vanishing etc. gratuitos.
And I still love it, just because it gives you this warm fuzzy feeling, that if we just could all be nice to each other, everything could work out in the end*, while at the same time ironically stating, "Not happening, mate!".
*Which Neil Gaiman gave as his political position in a newspaper interview