Thief of Time (Discworld, #26)

Did the first round of reading last January, and now has come back to this as I'm following the publication order. I didn't realise I didn't shelf Thief of Time before? My username sake book! If there is a book I can give more than 5 stars for, it would be this one. Second time is even better, as I can now see the foreshadowing and indicating of things from the beginning. And even without the structural tricks, ToT is still the best showing of life and the many balances and fights in it. And there is always the most special simile for me with the procrastinators.

It is a hard one to read, I guess; the metaphors are crazily multilayered and nuanced. But that is also what makes it the most fun, not the mention the deadily romantic final 5% of the book, the closure of the story.

I was talking to a friend earlier, during which I realised, how the stories/motives in the Disc books can resolve mostly happily is rather dependent on the fantastic fact that, the authority in the Disc, e.g. the gods, the men with power such as the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and the Commander of the Watch, the best witches, the dwarf king, the noble vampire lady... are all fundamentally Nice People. This is a fact that I don't see how can become true in the Roundworld reality....

I probably have to skip the quotes for ToT, I underlined too much.......it's embarrassing to put that many out, and it would be practically piracy ((((