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Advantages: Funny (Pratchett-style), easy read Disadvantages: More jokes, less plot? Bit too Pratchett-esque?
Reading two novels in such a short space of time (a month) is pretty unusual. Normally I'm so busy studying that to pick up a book when I finish feels like a busman's holiday! However, as I'm currently on something of a summer break, and didn't feel like doing any work without confirmation of funding for next year, I remembered a book I'd bought previously.
I bought Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals because I happened to see it for just £1 in Blackwells sale. (I notice they've since changed the cover, so perhaps this was clearing the last of old stock). I'd never read any of Holt's work before, but I knew my brother was something of a fan (having several books), and I'd heard him compared to Terry Pratchett, who I'm a big fan of, so I'd taken the chance to try it cheap.
As I said, I'd never read Holt before, but this is a standalone ...
it is unfair to categorise this book, or indeed any of terry pratchett's work as a children's bok. they are not exclusively so. this book - eric - is a fantastic pastiche of the great pillar of german literature by goethe of Faust, as indeed the front cover of the book shows. it is funny and can not be put down, but with knowledge of Faust this book takes on a whole new dimension and one that i would wish all to pick up on. if not, this can still be read as a highly enjoyable book, but with the knowledge of faust you may come to appreciate this as a truly great work of "children's" literature. ...
Advantages: Full of excellent illustrations and a good story Disadvantages: Not his best
I could write so much about the work of this man as I have been following his career for many years and I have bought ever one of his books in paperback and I acquired Eric as soon as it came out. This is the only Pratchett book that includes a lot of illustrations from Josh Kirby. Yes I know that there are normally cover pictures, but the version of Eric I have has full colour pictures throughout. The story, based on Faust, is about Eric who conjures up himself a demon from the pit, but it is not any old demon it is poor old Rincewind the wizard, who found himself in the dungeon dimensions at the end of one of his misadventures. The ensuing adventures are, as you would expect, see Rincewind and Eric causing chaos as they travel through the millennia backwards in time meeting historic characters, The Creator of the Discworld ...
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