Jack Heckel
Auteur de A Fairy-tale Ending
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Jack Heckel is a pen name for the writing duo of John Peck and Harry Heckel. Do not combine with either of the singular authors.
Séries
Œuvres de Jack Heckel
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- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
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- Jack Heckel's life is an open book, actually, the book you are in all hope holding right now (and if you are not holding it, he would like to tell you it can be purchased from any of your finest purveyors of the written word). Beyond that, Jack aspires to be either a witty, urbane, world-traveller who lives on his vintage yacht, The Clever Double Entendre, or a geographically illiterate professor of literature who spends his non-writing time restoring an 18th century lighthouse off a remote part of the Vermont coastline. Whatever you want to believe of him, he is without doubt the author of the premier volume of the Charming novels, Once Upon a Rhyme. So, no matter what rumors you might hear about Jack, particularly those spread by either litigious dwarves or litigious dwarfs, ignore them, because he is currently working on a sequel. Because more than anything, Jack lives for his readers.
Despite whatever Jack may claim, in reality, Jack Heckel is the pen name for John Peck and Harry Heckel. [Amazon.com Author Page, retrieved 8/18/2016] - Notice de désambigüisation
- Jack Heckel is a pen name for the writing duo of John Peck and Harry Heckel. Do not combine with either of the singular authors.
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Critiques
A Fairy-tale Ending par Jack Heckel
No. I quit. I'm not going to force myself to slog through this mess of utterly selfish characters; I don't find it amusing to see them humiliated, I don't see anyone I want to root for (OK, Elizabeth isn't bad. But not worth the rest of it), and I dislike manipulators even if the rest of the story is good (and nearly everyone here is a manipulator, at one level or another). I got almost half-way through the first book, I think. I checked out the end of the book and a) it wasn't really a conclusion and b) no one seems to have changed much. So no thanks.… (plus d'informations)
This fairy-tale mash-up is light, amusing, and laugh-out-loud funny at times. The source of much of the humor is Prince Charming. Oh, Charming. He was raised to be the slayer of the dragon, the hero of the realm, but he prefers to idle away the hours by using horrid couplets to woo pretty women. When a pair of young farmer siblings kill the dragon and destroy Charming's prophesied glory, his life goes topsy-turvy. While the book is overall pretty breezy, there are touches of darkness here and there due to the antagonist, a figure of great sadness and complexity.
In the second half, I was amused by the take on the Seven Dwarves and the very meta, carefully-veiled references to Disney, complete with footnotes. The role of the Beast brought depth and revelation to the tale, too. Overall, the mood is downright fluffy, and that was perfect since I was fighting a migraine. I wanted something to make me smile, with a guaranteed happy ending, and this absolutely delivered.… (plus d'informations)
In the second half, I was amused by the take on the Seven Dwarves and the very meta, carefully-veiled references to Disney, complete with footnotes. The role of the Beast brought depth and revelation to the tale, too. Overall, the mood is downright fluffy, and that was perfect since I was fighting a migraine. I wanted something to make me smile, with a guaranteed happy ending, and this absolutely delivered.… (plus d'informations)
I read this as part of the collected volume A Fairy-tale Ending, and am reviewing them separately and together.
When the previous book left off, the cast was scattered to the winds. Heckel twists and twines fairy tales in clever new ways that made me laugh aloud more than once. In particular, I was amused by the take on the Seven Dwarves and the very meta, carefully-veiled references to Disney, complete with footnotes. The role of the Beast brought depth and revelation to the tale, too. Overall, the mood is downright fluffy, and that was perfect since I was fighting a migraine. I wanted something to make me smile, with a guaranteed happy ending, and this absolutely delivered.… (plus d'informations)
When the previous book left off, the cast was scattered to the winds. Heckel twists and twines fairy tales in clever new ways that made me laugh aloud more than once. In particular, I was amused by the take on the Seven Dwarves and the very meta, carefully-veiled references to Disney, complete with footnotes. The role of the Beast brought depth and revelation to the tale, too. Overall, the mood is downright fluffy, and that was perfect since I was fighting a migraine. I wanted something to make me smile, with a guaranteed happy ending, and this absolutely delivered.… (plus d'informations)
I read this as part of the collected volume A Fairy-tale Ending, and am reviewing them separately and together.
This fairy-tale mash-up is light, amusing, and laugh-out-loud funny at times. The source of much of the humor is Prince Charming. Oh, Charming. He was raised to be the slayer of the dragon, the hero of the realm, but he prefers to idle away the hours by using horrid couplets to woo pretty women. When a pair of young farmer siblings kill the dragon and destroy Charming's prophesied glory, his life goes topsy-turvy. While the book is overall pretty breezy, there are touches of darkness here and there due to the antagonist, a figure of great sadness and complexity. I was happy that I already had the second book so I could read straight through to find out what happens next.… (plus d'informations)
This fairy-tale mash-up is light, amusing, and laugh-out-loud funny at times. The source of much of the humor is Prince Charming. Oh, Charming. He was raised to be the slayer of the dragon, the hero of the realm, but he prefers to idle away the hours by using horrid couplets to woo pretty women. When a pair of young farmer siblings kill the dragon and destroy Charming's prophesied glory, his life goes topsy-turvy. While the book is overall pretty breezy, there are touches of darkness here and there due to the antagonist, a figure of great sadness and complexity. I was happy that I already had the second book so I could read straight through to find out what happens next.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 74
- Popularité
- #238,154
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 12
- Favoris
- 1