![]() You don't need to catch all the in-jokes to enjoy the fun. The story includes a quick nod to James Bond flicks with Qu, the monk who supplies gadgets to Lu-Tze and Lobsang, and at the end of Time the four (no, make that five) horsemen of the Apocalypse get to ride out for a jaunt. We also find out that Lobsang has more in store for his future than to be an apprentice monk. ![]() Along the way we learn Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man," which is a very good lesson to learn. While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it. It's up to Miss Susan, Lobsang and Lu-Tze to figure out who in the end has decided to build the dangerous clock and how to stop him before the world crashes to a halt. 4.32 28 Ratings 47 Want to read 3 Currently reading 40 Have read In Discworld, time is a resource managed by the highly capable Monks of History. 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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