{"id":4256,"date":"2017-07-14T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2017-07-09T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T01:52:14","slug":"mark-reads-thief-of-time-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2017\/07\/mark-reads-thief-of-time-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘Thief of Time’: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the second part of Thief of Time<\/i>, THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT, I CAN ALREADY TELL. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Miss Susan<\/b><\/p>\n

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS EXCEPT I CAN TOTALLY BELIEVE IT BECAUSE IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SO PERFECT. Susan Sto Helit is a teacher. OF COURSE SHE IS. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a natural progression from her being a governess!<\/p>\n

And look at her classroom! And her lessons! She gets away with a non-traditional form of teaching by giving others a Look, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so perfectly in-character for her that I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deal with it. Can we have a YA tie-in series of just this? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I asked for one last time Susan was a protagonist, but look, I am but a simple man, and this is all I want. (On top of about 100 other things, no big deal.) Just give me four hundred books about Susan teaching generation after generation about the sensible way in which to interpret the universe. Is that so much to ask<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Oh, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be so pissed that her father has gotten her involved in this newest adventure, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m selfish, and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do.<\/p>\n

Lu-Tze<\/b><\/p>\n

I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wrong about Lu-Tze\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last appearance. Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it in Small Gods<\/i>? Maybe??? All I am certain of is that he appears when time needs to be corrected\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 er, perhaps I should say that history<\/i> needs to be put in its proper place, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 OH GOD, WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GOING TO HAPPEN.<\/p>\n

Ludd<\/b><\/p>\n

Okay, WHO IS THIS NEW CHARACTER. Seriously, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much going on at the start of this book!!! So, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a child who is living with the History Monks, was discovered in Ankh-Morpork, and who annoys everyone<\/i> because of his apparent ability to move faster than anyone can see. Oh, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s smart<\/i>. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way more clever than any of the monks in the monastery, so of course<\/i> that infuriates everyone even more. So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a speed thing, but a time<\/i> thing? What if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stopping<\/i> time? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M TRYING TO THINK OF THEMATIC THEORIES HERE, OKAY. I love the idea that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be paired with Lu-Tze because there are really only two outcomes here: they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll become fast friends or they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll despise<\/i> one another.<\/p>\n

Jeremy<\/b><\/p>\n

You know, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of hard to not<\/i> think of the negative repercussions of Jeremy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest project. A rich woman Jeremy has never heard of showed up in his shop, promised him wealth and prestige, and asked him to build something impossible. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like the start of a horror film or, at the very least, a tragedy. WHEN DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS EVER END WELL.<\/p>\n

Now, though, Lady LeJean has sent Jeremy his own Igor. Which is great for job creation, sure, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m worried. That weird dream about the glass clock is also<\/i> a surefire sign that this is heading for disaster. Why was that thing so creepy<\/i>, you know?<\/p>\n

I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T TRUST LADY LEJEAN.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XVjS_Y9O8yo<\/p>\n

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