Dead Funny: Tom Holt
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841490253 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 570 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Only slightly amusing Well, around about page 95 you begin to think it might potentially be somewhat amusing. However, your hopes are dashed by page 105 and you're checking to see how many pages are left. Some amusing bits. Some clever gags. A large number of genuine words. A good bit of puzzling whether you've accidentally skipped a page o. Nuggets from the golden age of Holt wiredweird I'm glad to see thse two books back in print, even if they're now printed in one book. (UK readers may see the same two books collected as "Dead Funny," with a different cover but the same ISBN.) They're two of Holt's best, dating back to the early 1990s.In the first half, "Flying Dutch," Holt traces Cornelius Vanderve. finallygood modern fiction I've been searching for modern fiction that is the perfect escape into fantasy for over a decade, but I always go back to my old favorites like Kafka or Tolstoy. Tom Holt is on par with the great authors of history. He takes subjects of complete impossibility and makes them seem feasible. If you want to exercise your i
Tom Holt is the author of such comic fantasy classics as: Expecting Someone Taller, Who's Afraid of Beowulf?, Flying Dutch, Ye Gods!, Overtime, Here Comes the Sun, Grailblazers, Faust Among Equals, Odds and Gods, Djinn Rummy, My Hero, Paint Your Dragon and Open Sesame
For a start, there had been that nasty business with the perjurers, and then came the news that the Most Wanted Man in History had escaped. Little does Cornelius Vanderdecker, the Flying Dutchman, suspect that a chance encounter in an English pub might just lead to the end of his cursed life.FAUST AMONG EQUALS - The management buy-out of Hell wasn't going quite as planned. But Kurt 'Mad Dog' Lundqvist, the foremost bounty hunter of all time, is on the case, and he can usually be relied on to get his man - even when that man is Lucky George Faustus Exuberant comedy from Tom Holt at his inventive best.. One little swig from the wrong bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting around the world with your simil
Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing gratifyingly clever and very amusingMAIL ON SUNDAYFrothy, fast and funnySCOTLAND ON SUNDAY