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Summary: Great!
Review: Finally! We get to see Perv in the flesh. I love the place, vary good book. All the Myth books rock!
Rating:
Summary: Great!
Review: Finally! We get to see Perv in the flesh. I love the place, vary good book. All the Myth books rock!
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Summary: A very funny book, worth re-reading a million times!
Review: Having read every book in the Myth series by Robert Aspirin, I can say that it is very good. Mixing slapstick with a dry wit has made it a very good read. I salute the author and hope to aspire to his stature some day!
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Summary: Skeeve is too stupid in this one.
Review: I greatly enjoyed the first six books in this series, but Skeeve has learned a lot in them. He can't still be this dumb. I enjoyed Aahz's world of Perv, though.
Rating:
Summary: Skeeve is too stupid in this one.
Review: I greatly enjoyed the first six books in this series, but Skeeve has learned a lot in them. He can't still be this dumb. I enjoyed Aahz's world of Perv, though.
Rating: 
Summary: disappointing
Review: I had not read any of the Myth books in several years, but I picked this one up recently because it looked interesting. It is undoubtedy the worst Myth adventure that I have read(even worse than Myth-ing Persons(!)). No one can be as stupid as Skeeve is, particularly someone with his experiences. He should have grown up by now, and he hasn't. Usually the books work because his companions are interesting, but in this one Skeeve has an adventure of his own, and handles it, and himself, badly. The book wasn't worth the effort of reading it.
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Summary: to myth or not to myth
Review: I have been astounded once again with Robert Asprin's myth series. The series just keeps getting better and better the more you read. The way he portrays everyone. Myth Directions, M.Y.T.H. INC. Link, and HIT OR MYTH are only a few to prove what a great writer this man is. I'd recommend this book to anyone and everyone.
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Summary: myth-ing the point
Review: I love his books (up to now). I think they are inspired, quite often he is better than Pratcett, and lets face it that is good. However the main feeling I get form this book is that it lack humility, subject and perhaps most importantly a point. It has good jokes, some excelent moments but overall it has no heart. Sorry Robert but this one fails to impress.
Rating:
Summary: disappointing
Review: It's not clear to me whether I saw this book as a disappointment because it was in fact a disappointing book, or because it diverges so much from the manner and style of the previous Myth stories. I think it's the former, but I would be remiss to not mention the latter.The story line involves Skeeve's search for Aahz on the notoriously nasty dimension of Perv. That, in itself, is a shift for Aahz's character. In this book, and in the prior setup to this book, he seems more like a whiny, co-dependent wimp, running home to mommy when things don't go his way, rather than the confident smart-aleck I've loved from the previous books in the series. This I found disappointing, but what was perhaps even more disappointing was Perv itself. Where Asprin could have created a horrific world for outsiders, blending powerful magic and technology with blinding intolerance for outsiders on the level of the KKK, he instead offers up Manhattan on a pretty good day. I would feel more comfortable in Asprin's Perv than I would in South Chicago, and that in itself is a profound disappointment. As for the story itself, that too is disappointing; a rambling mess focused not so much on Skeeve's efforts to find Aahz, but just Skeeve trying to survive in an unfamiliar, but not entirely unfriendly environment (especially after Skeeve waves his cash around a bit). The ending itself is also disappointing, as it comes about not from Skeeve's efforts to reach it, but despite those efforts. As I said earlier, my disappointment in this book may be a result of the expectations set by the earlier books in the series, in terms of tone and style. This is a very different book than the others in the series. People who liked this book would not necessarily like the remainder of the Myth series, and in fact if one likes the Myth series in general, it doesn't mean he or she will like this book. Even so, I don't think the change in direction is handled effectively; even without the context of the other books, it's a poor eff! ort.
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Summary: A Change of Direction for the Myth Series
Review: It's not clear to me whether I saw this book as a disappointment because it was in fact a disappointing book, or because it diverges so much from the manner and style of the previous Myth stories. I think it's the former, but I would be remiss to not mention the latter. The story line involves Skeeve's search for Aahz on the notoriously nasty dimension of Perv. That, in itself, is a shift for Aahz's character. In this book, and in the prior setup to this book, he seems more like a whiny, co-dependent wimp, running home to mommy when things don't go his way, rather than the confident smart-aleck I've loved from the previous books in the series. This I found disappointing, but what was perhaps even more disappointing was Perv itself. Where Asprin could have created a horrific world for outsiders, blending powerful magic and technology with blinding intolerance for outsiders on the level of the KKK, he instead offers up Manhattan on a pretty good day. I would feel more comfortable in Asprin's Perv than I would in South Chicago, and that in itself is a profound disappointment. As for the story itself, that too is disappointing; a rambling mess focused not so much on Skeeve's efforts to find Aahz, but just Skeeve trying to survive in an unfamiliar, but not entirely unfriendly environment (especially after Skeeve waves his cash around a bit). The ending itself is also disappointing, as it comes about not from Skeeve's efforts to reach it, but despite those efforts. As I said earlier, my disappointment in this book may be a result of the expectations set by the earlier books in the series, in terms of tone and style. This is a very different book than the others in the series. People who liked this book would not necessarily like the remainder of the Myth series, and in fact if one likes the Myth series in general, it doesn't mean he or she will like this book. Even so, I don't think the change in direction is handled effectively; even without the context of the other books, it's a poor eff! ort.
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