Tom Holt (1) (1961–)
Auteur de The Portable Door
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Tom Holt, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Tom Holt (1) a été combiné avec K. J. Parker.
Séries
Œuvres de Tom Holt
Les œuvres ont été combinées en K. J. Parker.
An Extract from The Portable Door 7 exemplaires
The Jerk Who Fell to Earth 2 exemplaires
Brownian Emotion [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
A Good Report Of The Worm 1 exemplaire
Escape From The Planet Of The Bears 1 exemplaire
Without Fire 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Holt, Thomas Charles Louis
- Autres noms
- Parker, K. J. (pseudonym)
- Date de naissance
- 1961-09-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Chard, Somerset, UK
London, England, UK - Études
- Oxford University
- Professions
- solicitor
novelist
fantasy writer - Relations
- Holt, Hazel (Mère)
- Prix et distinctions
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1999)
- Courte biographie
- Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motor engines; interests which led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialized in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. Now a full-time writer, he lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife, one daughter and the unmistakable scent of blood, wafting in on the breeze from the local meat-packing plant. [from The Portable Door (2005)]
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Critiques
A bulk of the book was just weird. I felt like I was always missing out on something. The protagonist was just sort of thrust through most of the story, always a tick behind what was happening. Then, towards the end of the book, it finally clicked for him and suddenly the reader is clued in on what has been happening the whole time. I did get frustrated at times because it felt like it was weird just for the sake of being weird ... but then the author wrapped up everything quite well and it didn't feel quite so maddening towards the end. I finally liked the main character and didn't think him as much of a dufus as originally.… (plus d'informations)
The story of the first Olympics.
DNF. The author's stylistic quirks to show we are in a semi-legendary period just got on my nerves.
DNF. The author's stylistic quirks to show we are in a semi-legendary period just got on my nerves.
This isn't the sort of book I would normally read because - apart from a few honorary exceptions such as Douglas Adams' Hitch-hiker's Guide - I quite often find humorous stories rather too heavy handed and to be trying too hard to be funny. However, this was passed to me by a friend who enjoyed it, so I thought I would give it a fair try. At first, I found this to be rather too overworked in the usual fashion, but after persisting was able to find the odd gem and to smile wryly or chuckle here and there. So not raucously funny, but fairly acceptable as a one-off.
I've just discovered it is the last book in a series, but it doesn't seem to suffer for that. Everything you need to know to understand the strange events transpiring are more or less explained during the course of the book, apart from the two odd people employed to deter the 'hero and heroine' at one or two junctures: I now realise they might be explained in an earlier volume. I use the terms hero and heroine loosely because the hero is the goblin King who is meant to be evil though didn't really come over as such and the heroine is his Elf woman sidekick who wants to become editor of the Elves' snobby newspaper.
There are a lot of jokes which are really poking fun at things in our world, although I thought the author was steering a bit too near the wind with a derogatory description of a well-known food product, considering that brand names are usually all right to mention in fiction as long as nothing negative is said. The cover is also slightly misleading - no dragons actually appear and no one goes around armed with a bow and arrow, least of all the heroine. Anyway, it was a decent page-turning read and would probably appeal more to readers who really enjoy comedy fiction. A solid 3 star rating therefore.… (plus d'informations)
I've just discovered it is the last book in a series, but it doesn't seem to suffer for that. Everything you need to know to understand the strange events transpiring are more or less explained during the course of the book, apart from the two odd people employed to deter the 'hero and heroine' at one or two junctures: I now realise they might be explained in an earlier volume. I use the terms hero and heroine loosely because the hero is the goblin King who is meant to be evil though didn't really come over as such and the heroine is his Elf woman sidekick who wants to become editor of the Elves' snobby newspaper.
There are a lot of jokes which are really poking fun at things in our world, although I thought the author was steering a bit too near the wind with a derogatory description of a well-known food product, considering that brand names are usually all right to mention in fiction as long as nothing negative is said. The cover is also slightly misleading - no dragons actually appear and no one goes around armed with a bow and arrow, least of all the heroine. Anyway, it was a decent page-turning read and would probably appeal more to readers who really enjoy comedy fiction. A solid 3 star rating therefore.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 67
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 14,071
- Popularité
- #1,634
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 307
- ISBN
- 316
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 2
Humorous, clever and enjoyable.
Didn't like the way it ended - lost me and didn't make much sense to me.