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Pros
Great premise for the novel(s), looks like it has potential to be a discworld successor. This isn't discworld 41 in fact it's closer to a cloud atlas, where multiple variations on a world as we know it exist alongside each other. Our lead character jo... Read More
It was a cruel way to deal with the pleasant town of madison at the end (or was it a stepford? It looks like i may have to reread the whole series. Phenomenal book by 2 phenomenal authors.
Cons
The long earth is boring. Not by anything remotely resembling hard science. More like the long yawn. At least it's recyclable.
Reviewer says it's a nice idea, but soon becomes matter-of-fact and predictable.
All seeing, ridiculously wealthy, morally ambiguous etc etc. Characters introduced just seem to have no further involvement and if they do it seems very brief and unconnected. Zero character development, zero character depth.
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Quality
The use of evolved airships or dirigibles as a major means of travel echoes ideas found in the writings of rudyard kipling – re... Read More
Oh, and i'll be continuing with the saga now.
I enjoyed the book and will continue on with the series.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Accompanied by or accompanying depending on your viewpoint a sentient computer the main protagonist steps from one earth to another parallel earth over and over again to discover countless versions of earth and its inhabitants
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Meanwhile as more people step into the other earths in a mass migration those who are unable to turn resentful and become a threat themselves
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
From an exceptionally slow and meandering start this picked up pace hugely in the last third just about saving it from the three star rate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Instead you would find yourself thrown into the history of a random character never to see or hear from them again
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
They arent bad chapters they just failed to hold my attention in the same way
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Funny ridiculous and serious all at once
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The books in question are perhaps not pratchetts best works if read only as sequence of stories
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The use of evolved airships or dirigibles as a major means of travel echoes ideas found in the writings of rudyard kipling – reference with the night mail a story of 2000 ad
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