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  • This was a funny and poignant book about visiting the past. I liked how Sam taught his younger self about bravery and doing the right thing. I also liked meeting characters when they were younger such as Dibbler and Vetinari.

    

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• ― krin5292 said on Jun 2, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I consider this to be Pratchett's most polished work. Less fantasy, more reality. It's certainly among his most emotional works - I cry like a baby every time I read it.

    At first, anyone would be skeptical - Sam Vimes as a time-traveler, isn't this a bit cliche? But once again Pratchett take ... Continue

    I consider this to be Pratchett's most polished work. Less fantasy, more reality. It's certainly among his most emotional works - I cry like a baby every time I read it.

    At first, anyone would be skeptical - Sam Vimes as a time-traveler, isn't this a bit cliche? But once again Pratchett takes a convention of fantasy and sci-fi and spins it on its head to produce this gem of a novel.

    Touching and brilliant, I can't speak highly enough of this entry into the Discworld oeuvre.

    

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• ― guaddess said on Sep 22, 2007 | Add your feedback

One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks -- though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there's a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes.

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