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rachelleahdorn's review against another edition
4.0
This book was recommended to me because of similarities to Terry Pratchett. I bought it 7 or 8 years ago but didn't or couldn't read it then for some reason.
This time around I found it to be an easy read and funny, but only smirk funny, not LOL funny. When reading Pratchett, I often laugh audibly, but this one didn't quite get me there.
This book is British and of it's time (published in 93, I think) to an extent that forced me to look up words or references at least 3 times and I decided not to bother at least a few more times. Presumably I missed some references, too, that I didn't know to look up.
The story is kind of rollicking silliness with references to corporate culture, systemic inefficiencies and a hodge pods of religious and philosophical references. As a world, this one didn't hold up as well as some, but that may have been the point.
This was the first thing I've read by Holt, and since the copy I bought of this book contains two books in one, I will probably give the second a try, but I'm not sure this book alone would make me search out more by this author.
This time around I found it to be an easy read and funny, but only smirk funny, not LOL funny. When reading Pratchett, I often laugh audibly, but this one didn't quite get me there.
This book is British and of it's time (published in 93, I think) to an extent that forced me to look up words or references at least 3 times and I decided not to bother at least a few more times. Presumably I missed some references, too, that I didn't know to look up.
The story is kind of rollicking silliness with references to corporate culture, systemic inefficiencies and a hodge pods of religious and philosophical references. As a world, this one didn't hold up as well as some, but that may have been the point.
This was the first thing I've read by Holt, and since the copy I bought of this book contains two books in one, I will probably give the second a try, but I'm not sure this book alone would make me search out more by this author.
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