Johnny and the Bomb (originale 1996; edizione 2004)

Johnny and his friends accidentally time travel back to the Blitz and have to figure out away to escape the grandfather paradox.

The final Johnny Maxwell book is more polished than it's predecessors, but I didn't find it quite as memorable. ( )

Extremely funny time travel tale, aimed at the younger reader. Also gives readers an idea of what it was like to be in England during the second world war. ( )

I've read this before (and seen the TV series they made of it) but really needed a distraction for some boring data-editing work and this was great to have on in the background as an audio book, engaging the parts of my brain that would otherwise have been stagnating.

I think Pratchett does a good job of capturing the huge gulf between everyday life in 1941 and 1996 - and it's intriguing that aspects of life in 1996 are already striking me as quaintly old fashioned (phones that are confined to one room, for example, no-one carrying mobile phones). ( )

Good fun, though naturally not as fantastic as Pratchett's Discworld novels. Johnny would actually fit in well in Ankh-Morpork -- maybe as one of Vimes' guards when he's older? He's appealing, resourceful, and not full of himself. And unlike Rincewind, he's brave enough to not run away from the situations that keep cropping up, even when it involves trying to fix timelines gone awry (with some help from his motley crew of friends). I hope there is another Johnny Maxwell book somewhere among Pratchett's papers, because the universe is a better place with these stories in it.

Clever.
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Read it back when I working really hard to appreciate the love my friends have for Pratchett, don't remember it now. ( )