- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Corgi Childrens; New edition edition (1 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0552529680
- ISBN-13: 978-0552529686
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 797,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The third title in Terry Pratchett's terrific fantasy series starring Johnny Maxwell.
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Johnny and his friends discover that Mrs. Tachyon, the local bag lady, holds the key to different eras - including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place he once thought it was.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In my opinion, Johnny and the Bomb is the best book in Terry Pratchett’s Johnny Maxwell trilogy. While classified as juvenile fiction, this book bears the strongest resemblance of the three to Pratchett’s Discworld ideas and characterizations, containing much more social commentary, satire, and sidesplitting comedy than Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead. For such a normal twelve-year-old kid, Johnny Maxwell has some amazing adventures. This time around, he becomes a time traveler. Old Mrs. Tachyon, whom we have met briefly earlier in the series, is now revealed to be something more than a crazy bag lady; she is a time-traveling crazy bag lady. When she turns up injured, Johnny and his friends summon an ambulance for her and take her trolley cart (complete with her ornery cat Guilty) to Johnny’s garage for safe keeping. Johnny notices that some of her bags seem to move of their own accord at times, and this discovery quickly leads to an episode of quite unexpected time travel.
The characters of Johnny’s remarkable friends are fleshed out in this novel to a much greater extent than they were in the previous two novels. Yo-less, a black kid, is less than pleased to find himself dubbed Sambo by the folks living in 1941, and the extremely forceful young Kirsten is almost as upset about being treated like a “little lady.” Johnny, for his part, often finds himself putting his sanity at risk by contemplating the ways and whims of time travel. I found this book to be hilarious; the time travel part of the tale is a little wild and crazy, but hypotheses about the different legs of the Trousers of Time is vintage Pratchett material. Old Mrs. Tachyon is a wonderful character, seemingly rather insane based on her thought processes and tendency to spout gibberish all the time, she is perhaps more sane than anyone else around her; time traveling is enough to warp anyone’s mind, Johnny reasons. I was rather delighted to hear Mrs. Tachyon mumble the words “Millennium hand and shrimp” at one point because these are the very same words often spoken by Foul Ole Ron on the Discworld. This adventure really is the type of thing you might expect to find on Pratchett’s famous planetary creation, and I daresay any Discworld fan should enjoy this book immensely. I find myself wishing for more Johnny Maxwell stories; I feel as if I know these characters now, and they are a fascinating, increasingly funny bunch of guys to hang around with.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This entire series (see Only You Can Save Mankind, and Johnny and The Dead) is so funny and imaginative that never mind the 'Childrens Book' classification, all ages will love it.
Here Johnny and freinds add a little time travel to their list of adventures, and find themselves in in thier home town, but in 1941! A world where girls should play with their dolls rather than worry about technical things which they can't understand, does not go down well with a 90's female.
And as for 'Yo Less' Johnny's black friend, imagine the suprise when the 1940's shopkeeper finds out that 'Sambo' does speak rather good English!
Again another classic combination of humour, imagination and subtle social comment from an author who in my opimion should have far more recognition.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Funny, insightful, it's probably the best of the johnny series (or is it Johnny and the bomb ?) and should appeal to readers of all ages. Anyway a great read and warmly recommended. From a reader who isn't even a native English speaker :)
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Johnny and the Bomb
A brilliant book. I used to hate reading and this book had been on my bookshelf for a few years. I thought I might as well read the first chapter, and after I did I was hooked,... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Matthew
Johnny and the Bomb
I was introduced to Johnny and the Bomb when a friend lent me her tapes for my son and his friend to listen to on a long car journey to France. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mrs. Jane Ea Hawthorn
Histerically Funny at Times
We bought the audio cd of this story to listen to with our 10 yr old daughter and loved it so much we will now go away and read all the books in the series. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. Roma U. F. Cox
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I may have missed that this was an ex library book within the description. It was originally intended as a birthday present but because of its condition I felt unable to use it for... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Maria Jackson
if you like pratchett you will like the johnny books
if you like pratchett you will like the johnny books, although written with children in mind, they still are a good read for adults as well. Read more
Published on 29 May 2009 by Hanna D. Stewart
Darker than usual Pratchett
I read the review by Bryson who said that it was derivative of Just William and many books of that time. Read more
Published on 4 April 2008 by Andrew Dalby
Explore the trouser legs of time
One of a set of three, each book can be read as a stand alone novel or as part of the 'Johnny Trilogy', (although younger readers may not fully appreciate the 'space invader'... Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2006 by April Wallis
Excellent book, and just as excellent t.v series!!!
Johnny and the Bomb just has to be the best out of all the Johnny series,partly because it helps you notice how children today have changed from children back in 1941,but mainly... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2006 by Lollipop-loves-to-read!!!
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On page 160 of Hawking's Brief History of Time, where the author is discussing string theory, he remarks 'in the case of closed strings it is like the two legs joining on a pair of... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2005 by DAVID BRYSON
Time travel,bewiderment,adventure.What more could you want!
This is an amazing book.It may be a bit confusing but it is still lots of fun to read! If you like other Terry Pratchett books or if you liked 'Jonny and the Dead' you will love... Read more
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