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The Long War

By: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
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The outstanding audiobook series The Long Earth is back after much anticipation with Book Two The Long War written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter and expertly narrated by British actor Michael Fenton Stevens. There are murmurs of conflict spreading throughout the lands. The trolls of Long Earth are amassing while Valhalla is prickling with turmoil. There is nowhere to escape from the clutches of a full scale war. Lobsang seeks Joshua’s help but together can they put a stop to the inevitable? This epic series is filled with suspense, action and fantasy. Available now from Audible.

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A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping.

Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind...

A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...

Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation...

Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.

©2013 Terry and Lyn Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (P)2013 Random House Audiobooks

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Tiresome

Like one of those long winded jokes with a huge build up, then a disappointing pun for a punchline. Clearly written by committee.
I won't be reading any more of this series.

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not as good as most Pratchetts works, worse then part 1

repetitive, adds nothing new to the first book. expected more. story is too jumpy

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Meh...

Story is flat. You kinda wait and wait for the storyline to go somewhere exciting, but it never does. Its a bit of a crescendo in the end, but overall all the small stories about tge ppl you follow in the book doesn't really develop an arc. The title of the book is extremely misleading too. I was expecting a whole other story, with the first book in tge series that ended in a big bang to set up a bice serve for the author to really hit this book home, but even with so much potential build up from book nr 1 he spoiled every opportunity to make this book interesting.

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I may be biased in these ratings

These are two of my favorite authors and the team up works really well. I rarely have time for audible books due to the number of podcasts I listen to but this was one that I couldn't put down.

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