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The Long Earth

By: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrated by: Michael Fenton-Stevens
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The possibilities are endless. Just be careful what you wish for....

The Western Front, 1916. 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?

Madison, Wisconsin, 2015. 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 first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to the ends of the earth - and far beyond. All it takes is a single step. . . .

©2012 Terry Pratchett, Lyn Pratchett, and Stephen Baxter (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers

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Very very very very very very, very very Epic shit

Very very very very very very, very very very very, veryy veryyy veryyyy Epic shit

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Learned about stepping to the West

Thouroghly enjoyed this introduction to the long-earth. I understand why Terry Pratchett has such a following. Fiction is a gift to the imagination; we are able to go into the long-earth and return to the datum a bit changed for the better.

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Hate to admit it

This story just didn't work for me. I had a hard engaging. The story was too fragmented. The characters didn't interest me. I love love love Terry Pratchett and this just was not a good story from my view point. It did have some of his humor.

Best line of book - talking about the ocean - my ancestors spent millions of years getting out of the ocean and I'm good with that.

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Lacks that Pratchett Charm

For me, the tell tale signs that Terry Pratchett is behind the book that you just read are: an unparalleled humor and wit that summon an audible laugh every few pages, ideas that stretch your imagination to new limits, and being left with a voracious hunger to find the next installment. This title just doesn't contain any of those usual identifiers. In fact I wouldn't have guessed that this was a Pratchett book at all except for a few concepts seem to have been borrowed from past novels, notably "Lords and Ladies" and one passage that almost seems to have been lifted from "Good Omens"

I agree with several other reviewers in that this was a great idea that was poorly executed. The story jumps between too many sets of characters that were so unrelateable that i never really grew an attachment too them. I was ready to be done with this book long before the end and never touch any of the sequels, but the cliffhanger ending does leave me wondering what happens, and thinking that maybe I do care more about the characters than I had led myself to believe. I will probably get around to the next title in the series just no time soon.

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Huck Finn does 2000 Leagues

not the first authors to explore the concept (Piers Anthony did a series back in the 90's) but I think it's better implemented by combining it with the "2000 Leagues Under the Huckelberry Finn" concept

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An original and entertaining sci-fi novel

This book isn't like anything you've ever read. Etertaining, engrossing, humorous, and thoughtful. Highly recommended.

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Brilliant! Great Characters, story, concept!

What a wonderful surprise this book was. I felt like a teenage version of myself finding a great science fiction book, who couldn't wait to find out what happens next. There are so many books where I just don't care about the the characters, but these were well-fleshed-out.

The story of the Long Earh was a great take on a concept that's been done many times. The difference was this time it seemed believable.

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as usual, Terry Pratchett delivers

a slightly more serious world/novel, as entertaining as one should expect from any Terry Pratchett book.

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Riveting, start to finish

Wonderful to imagine what life would be life of there were more than one earth.

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I didnt see the end coming.

great book. was very captivating. it was gearing up again and all of a sudden the end of book 1.

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