Thief of Time

A Discworld Novel

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Karesa McElheny, Harlan Ellison, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, Christopher Cazenove, John Rubinstein

Time is a resource that has to be managed. On Discworld, the Monks of History store time and pump it from the places where it's wasted — li ke underwater (how much time does a codfish need?) to places that need it —like cities, where there's never enough of time.

But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).

©2001 Terry Pratchett (P)2001 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Good listen

always love the humor and seeing how silly people would look to someone who wasn't human. we're all the same what ever world we're on.

Does not disappoint

The cast for this was great the only reason I gave this book four stars for performance was it seemed to be lower volume then most books. At full volume it was easy to hear. I usually listen to books in my shop. I found this book was hard to hear if there was ambient noise.

Struggling with this one

Many of the Diskworld books start out with a seemingly random assortment of characters and situations that come together in a clever and entertaining way. This one never really hit that high point for me and in all honesty it didn’t keep my attention very well. It has great characters and an interesting plot so I don’t know why this one didn’t click for me, but it didn’t. The recording was interesting with a nice assortment of narrators, but there was a high pitched squeal sound between each chapter that hurt my ears with my headphones on and distracted from the story.

Terry Pratchett ROCKS!

Read and/or listen to everything from Terry Pratchett.
Furthermore, this is a killer performance.
Thief of Time has been brought to life for me.

Great writing, but bad audio quality

The review title pretty much says it all. This is a wonderful story with clever, insightful moments that also managed to be funny and entertaining. Unfortunately, the audio quality of this book is not very good. It sounds like an old radio playing at the bottom of a well. Turning the volume of the device up very high, allowed me to listen to it anyway, but this caused the audio to occasionally spike uncomfortably and becomes somewhat distorted. Anyway, as a blind person, I would rather have bad audio quality than no audiobook at all. Still it would be nice to have a better version with better audio quality.