- Gebundene Ausgabe: 278 Seiten
- Verlag: Orbit (10. August 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1857233298
- ISBN-13: 978-1857233292
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,8 x 14,4 x 2,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.078.574 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Paperback edition of Tom Holt's latest comic novel. Jane gets more than she bargained for when she tries to quietly end her own life. Inside the bottle of aspirins she finds a genie with an attitude. Having spent fourteen years there, he is intent on creating trouble. Published simultaneously with his latest hardback }My Hero{.
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A comic fantasy by the author of "Faust Among Equals" and "Odds and Gods". When Kayaguchiya Integrated Circuits III ("Kiss" to his friends), a Force 12 genie with an attitude, is released after 14 years of living with two dozen white tablets, there's bound to be trouble.
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A Djinn as tonic (for a world set on self-destruction)
8. Juni 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
Tom Holt once again endeavors to turn a literary tradition and a mythic system upside down and inside out, in order to take the reader on a wild ride and suggest the general folly of nuclear arms, romantic stereotypes, and self-destructive tendencies in all forms. In DJINN RUMMY, the literary tradition and mythic system is taken from The Arabian Nights (as told to Hollywood), with a Force 12 genie called "Kiss" stuck with the task of saving an ungrateful world while stumbling through the minefield of mortal romance. Though not, perhaps, among Holt's best works, DJINN RUMMY is still a worthy and entertaining afternoon's read.
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Highly imaginative and witty comic fantasy
15. Januar 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
In Djinn Rummy, British comic fantasy writer Tom Holt takes the old "Genie in the Lamp" premise (or in this case it's an aspirin bottle), recasts it in the present day and has a lot of fun turning it to his own far fetched ends.
Their are some fairly remarkable plot twists involving druids, giant carnivorous plants, plagues, Iraqi fishermen, electronically controlled magic carpets, wimpy shop assistants and Cupid that keep the plot moving along at a breakneck pace.
There isn't a whole lot of logic to the plot mind, in fact it's debatable if it's even that important. The book depends on Holt's ability to create interesting characters and his witty descriptions of the predicaments that they find themselves in.
There is the likable anti-hero Kiss, the love-struck genie with the acid tongue who finds himself in the inconvenient position of having the fate of mankind resting on his shoulders. Then there is the psychotically evil Philly Nine, who loves nothing better than to wipe out all humankind when he's not pursuing the favourite genie pastime of acquiring wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. The human characters are less interesting; this book is all about the genies.
If you like Terry Pratchett or Robert Rankin, you'll probably be fairly well disposed towards this book. It does not operate in a purely fantasy environment like Pratchett's Discworld, and it is not nearly as anarchic or off the wall as Rankin's work but it has its moments of inspired lunacy. While it isn't necessarily laugh-out-loud hilarious all the time, it is quite clever, never boring and an enjoyable read throughout.
Their are some fairly remarkable plot twists involving druids, giant carnivorous plants, plagues, Iraqi fishermen, electronically controlled magic carpets, wimpy shop assistants and Cupid that keep the plot moving along at a breakneck pace.
There isn't a whole lot of logic to the plot mind, in fact it's debatable if it's even that important. The book depends on Holt's ability to create interesting characters and his witty descriptions of the predicaments that they find themselves in.
There is the likable anti-hero Kiss, the love-struck genie with the acid tongue who finds himself in the inconvenient position of having the fate of mankind resting on his shoulders. Then there is the psychotically evil Philly Nine, who loves nothing better than to wipe out all humankind when he's not pursuing the favourite genie pastime of acquiring wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. The human characters are less interesting; this book is all about the genies.
If you like Terry Pratchett or Robert Rankin, you'll probably be fairly well disposed towards this book. It does not operate in a purely fantasy environment like Pratchett's Discworld, and it is not nearly as anarchic or off the wall as Rankin's work but it has its moments of inspired lunacy. While it isn't necessarily laugh-out-loud hilarious all the time, it is quite clever, never boring and an enjoyable read throughout.
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