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Indlæser... The Long Earthaf Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
  
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483 (  ) freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |  This was... not good. It read more like a Dungeon Master's Guide than a novel - so much world building and descriptions of flora and fauna that there was no room for character development or plot. It was like a 400 page prologue. And then there's the racism. At 4 separate points in this novel - written and published in 2011 and set in 2011-2026 - the word  ) boredwillow | Mar 4, 2023 | 1916. El soldado Percy Blakeney recibe el impacto de un obús en una trinchera francesa. Despertará envuelto por el canto de los pájaros en un entorno pacífico, donde han desaparecido el barro y la metralla de la guerra. 2015: la ciudad de Madison, Virginia, en Estados Unidos. La agente de policía Monica Jansson investiga el incendio en la casa de un extravagante científico que ha desparecido sin dejar rastro. Algunos lo tildan de loco, otros lo consideran muy peligroso. Entre los escombros, Monica descubre un curioso mecanismo compuesto de una caja, una serie de cables… y una patata. Se trata del prototipo de un invento que cambiará para siempre nuestra manera de ver el mundo. Natt90 | Feb 27, 2023 | I'm not usually a fan of books that end on obvious cliffhangers without satisfying the main plot, and the characters in this book didn't always grab me. Despite the flaws, I found the concept of an infinite number of easily accessible Earths (and the problems therein) so compelling that I'll probably pick up the next one (The Long War) and keep on reading. Definitely a "world building" book, but Pratchett is a good enough writer that I'll give the benefit of getting more into the meat of it all in the next one. (  ) ajhackwith | Jan 3, 2023 | More accurate to say written by Stephen Baxter. There's very little Pratchett in this unfortunately ( ) martialalex92 | Dec 10, 2022 |
 The Long Earth is a short read: the pages riffle past and there's much to enjoy. The dialogue is a bit Hollywood 101, and much of it is characters explaining things to other characters, sometimes at great length ("Why are you telling me all this?" Joshua asks at one point, with apparent ingenuousness). But it's a charming, absorbing and somehow spacious piece of imagineering for all that.
1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever. The "stepper" enables a person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger -- and sometimes more dangerous -- the Earths become. No library descriptions found. |
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