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Summary: If you want to laugh, give this one a try
Review: Well, what can I say? This was a very funny book. A little short, a bit light, but good.
Where else do you get to meet Imps, from Imper? Deveels, (not devils) from Deva? Pervects (not Perverts if you want to keep all of your limbs and organs in their proper location, as in attached to your body and all that) from Perv? Klahds, (unfortunately, that would be us, or close to it) from Klah? And of course Gnomes, from Zoorik? (don't ask me, I didn't write it)
Skeeve's myth-adventures are wild, unpredictable, and funny.
In this, the first in the series, Skeeve meets Imp assassins, a demon hunter named Quigley, an ex-assassin with green hair named Tananda, a Pervect nameed Aahz, a Deveel named Frumple, and a laughing madman caled Isstvan, among others. Add the war unicorn(Buttercup) and the dragon (Gleep) and let the insanity begin.
It's nice that the magik in this book follows rules, of a sort, and nothing is ever quite what it seems.
And one of my favorite parts would have to be the quotes at the beginning of each chapter, from such notables as Darth Vader, Robin Hood, Thomas Edison, Benedict Arnold, Gengas Khan, and a pair refered to as Lor L. and Har D.
A quick read, but... All in all, if it doesn't make you laugh out loud, it will at least make you smile.
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Summary: A good mix of humor that deals with that age old question???
Review: What do I wanna do with my life??? Robert Asprin mixed fantasy and science fiction to create an interesting universe full interesting characters with all too human wants and desires. Skeeve (the main character) has all the growing pains that we all feel when were trying to decide where we are going in our lives. Unfortunately, it just so happens someone is trying to kill him... To make things brighter (or worse depending on your point view) his partner is a certified demon... The story (along with the entire series) has the feel of the traveling adventures of Hope & Crosby, Martin & Lewis, along with a little bit of Abbott & Costello's comedy... Wit, humor, and fantasy... A very good mix. Perhaps in the future we'll see more of Skeeve & Aahz...
P.S. - If you like these books check out the works of these authors...
Terry Prachett and Criag Shaw Gardner...
If you prefer more science fiction and less fantasy check out the immortal... Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... Until next time... So long, and thanks for all the fish......
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Summary: A great book
Review: When I was a kid I randomly picked up this book from the shelf of a bookstore and started reading it. I soon, one at a time, bought and read the entire collection. I absolutely love this series, it is so much fun to read.
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Summary: A Classic of Humorous Fantasy
Review: When the earth was young and Terry Pratchett not yet turning out another Diskworld novel every week, Robert Aspirin positioned himself to become the king of humorous fantasy stories with this book. Skeeve, a not-terribly-competent apprentice magician, falls in with an ostensibly ferocious demon, who happens to be an old friend of his recently murdered master, and his life becomes stranger by the moment. The book is a treasury of amusing scenes and clever quotations. Alas, the series goes quickly downhill, and none past the third are worth going out of your way to find, but this one is not to be missed.
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Summary: Fantasy with a sense of humor.
Review: With "Another Fine Myth," Asprin set out to spoof each and every convention of the fantasy genre. He succeeded. The "Myth" series is a marvelous send-up of every fantasy ever written, from Tolkien to Mercedes Lackey to Robert Jordan. Don't miss it.
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Summary: Fantasy, Magic, Mayhem and Comedy!
Review: You will laugh out loud at this book! You will not be able to put it down and you will clamour to obtain and read all the subsequent books in this series!The series is fun to no end! Just to give you an idea, an apprentice is serving his Wizard. The Wizard gets with an other-dimensional friend and fellow Wizard to play a trick on his apprentice. Once he has obtained the help, he decides play a double trick on his fellow Wizard by removing his Wizardly powers in this dimension, when he appears forth to scare the wha-hoozies out of his apprentice. just as the other-dimensional wizard appears, the prankster Wizard is killed by an arrow shot through the window! Thus, you have a demon-looking Wizard with no magic paowers stuck in a universe with an untrained inherited apprentice on a quest to resolve their situation! Great fun!
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