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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 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

The 27th novel in the phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. Then the lightning struck and now he’s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past, however, is incredibly easy.

But he must survive, because he has a job to do: he must track down a murderer, and teach his younger self how to be a good cop. He must also change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There’s a problem: if he wins, he’s got no wife, no child, no future.

This is a Discworld “Tale of One City”, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg!

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