There would be no yesterday, no tomorrow, no next minute in fact, everything and everyone would stop in its tracks. When a mysterious lady asks Jeremy to make a clock that is perfectly timed (even to the last tick), trouble begins it seems that such a clock would have the power to stop time completely. kung-fu movies? The cast includes Death Miss Susan, Death's granddaughter Jeremy Clockson, a clockmaker Lobsang, a novice monk and Lu-Tze, a sweeper at the temple of the History Monks. Here we go again! In the newest appealing installment of the Discworld series, Pratchett (The Truth) takes on religion, time and. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, time-as we know it-will end. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts.
Well, stop time, that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. While everyone talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. Which is why, on Discworld, only the experts can manage it-the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where busy denizens lament never having enough of it. Time itself is threatened - and it's up to the History Monks to save it in Sir Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series.Įverybody wants more time.
"Philosophical humor of the highest order." - Kirkus Reviews
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