Title: Thief of Time
Author: Terry Pratchett
Context: Thief of Time is my thirteenth venture into Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels. I've read all of the "Watch" series, all of the Tiffany Aching books (Wee Free Men... etc), one of the Witches books, and Going Postal. So, you could say I've hopped around a bit. I tend to prefer Pratchett's later work, and the later three "Watch" books in particular.
Why I Picked it Up: This particular title wasn't recommended especially to me by anyone, but Jennifer Crusie loves Susan Sto-Helit, Dee Dee loves Death, Laura and Carrie love The Hogfather, and I loved Lu Tze and the History Monks in Night Watch. So, I picked it up on a whim.
Basic Plot: The Auditors (previous villains in the Death books who keep trying to destroy the world in order to clean it up and make it all neat and orderly) are trying to end everything by stopping time. The History Monks, a young-yet-promising apprentice, an old Sweeper, Death, and Death's reluctant adoptive grand-daughter Susan are thrown in the mix. Well the monks are investigating and Susan isn't thrown as much as "poked a little." And Death is busy attempting to rally the reluctant horseman of the apocalypse for a ride.
(Yeah, Discworld books are really difficult for me to review, so I'm basically going to just stand over here and jump up and down and point excitedly at particular bits I liked.)
Hee. Fun. Very fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
"Dojo! What is rule one?!"
"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!"
Hee, excellent rule.
Death is kinda cool, Susan's pretty kick-ass but a little dull (even if she looks exactly like Dee in my brain), I liked the horsemen of the apocalypse, and death by chocolate is a great way to go.
Lu-Tze is awesome! I love that little bald man!
Also, yetis are really fucking cool.
Last thoughts: I really am going to read The Hogfather. I swear.
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