Tom Holt (1) (1961–)
Autor/a de The Portable Door
Per altres autors anomenats Tom Holt, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Tom Holt (1) s'ha combinat en K. J. Parker.
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Obres de Tom Holt
Les obres s'han combinat en K. J. Parker.
An Extract from The Portable Door 5 exemplars
The Jerk Who Fell to Earth 2 exemplars
Brownian Emotion [short fiction] 2 exemplars
Without Fire 1 exemplars
Escape From The Planet Of The Bears 1 exemplars
A Good Report Of The Worm 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Les obres s'han combinat en K. J. Parker.
Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome (1996) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Xenofilkia #54 August — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Holt, Thomas Charles Louis
- Altres noms
- Parker, K. J. (pseudonym)
- Data de naixement
- 1961-09-13
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Chard, Somerset, UK
London, England, UK - Educació
- Oxford University
- Professions
- solicitor
novelist
fantasy writer - Relacions
- Holt, Hazel (Mother)
- Premis i honors
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1999)
- Biografia breu
- 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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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.… (més)
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.… (més)
As per usual I will not give a star rating on a book that just wasn’t clicking for me. I actually got about half way before putting it aside. I liked the first book but this one was a no go.
Fantastic. Really captures E.F. Benson's style, although there is something a little modern about the way it is done - but in a good way. It's a shame Holt didn't write more, because the next attempt to revive the characters, at the start of the 21st century, would be a grim failure.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 67
- També de
- 13
- Membres
- 13,908
- Popularitat
- #1,658
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 305
- ISBN
- 313
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 2
DNF. The author's stylistic quirks to show we are in a semi-legendary period just got on my nerves.