The Long Earth - RealityWyrm

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published June 21, 2012 by HarperCollins Harper.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-206775-3

(1 review)

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 in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a... potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world forever.

And that is an understatement if ever there was one...

11 editions

Jessica reviewed The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett (The Long Earth, #1)

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2 stars

I didn't get through more than 11 chapters of this book (14%) because as cool as the concept is... It's boring. This book is boring. I read some other reviews and they indicate that it never picks up, so I'm putting it down.

If you like reading endless exposition and really pretentious (and yet forgettable) characters then this book might be up your alley, but if you want things to happen then give this one a pass.