- Gebundene Ausgabe: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Orbit (4. März 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1857236939
- ISBN-13: 978-1857236934
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,6 x 14,5 x 3,3 cm
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Tom Holt's popular comic fantasies began with Expecting Someone Taller in 1987: Only Human is his 15th novel in this vein. When God takes his son "Jay" on a fishing holiday in a far-off galaxy, the unpublicised younger son Kevin finally gets a chance to play with the family computer. This is Mainframe, "the PC of God that passeth all understanding," custom-built by Kawaguchiya Integrated Circuits to run the world ... and definitely unsafe to tinker with. Kevin's blunders shift souls into the wrong bodies: a machine operator swaps places with his machine, a woman with an old portrait, a Duke of Hell with a vicar, and Prime Minister Dermot Fraud with a suicide-bent lemming. Meanwhile Kawaguchiya's computer system achieves self-awareness, Zxprxp the visiting alien explores Earth's weaknesses and a demonic conspiracy is afoot. Holt provides numerous funny one-liners: a heavenly fridge magnet reads "ANGELS DO IT IMMACULATELY", while Customs in Hell has green and red channels for "Nothing to abandon" and "Abandon hope here". At the same time, he's genially pessimistic about humans and their intractable stupidity. Maybe the lemmings have the right idea after all? Our world seems doomed to end, not with a bang but a snigger ... Vintage Holt. --David Langford
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When the Supreme Being goes on holiday leaving his naturally curious son in charge of things, something is bound to go wrong. And boy, does it go wrong... "When Tom Holt's on form, the world is a much cheerier place" }SFX{.
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A pleasant moment away from a busy schedule
19. September 2003
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There is no God.
At least, not for the next few days. OK, it takes "deus ex machina" (emphasis on the "machina") to get the story going. After that, it was a happy few hours of reading. The characters are enjoyable: a vicar having a devil of a time (or vice versa), a milling machine with a great personality, ...
My professional "must read" pile is approaching knee-deep right now. I really can't take much time off. Every know and then, though, I need to read something like Holt. It's a little vacation for me, a half-hour at a time. "Only Human" is a nice place for that little (very little) vacation.
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Expecting something better
23. April 2001
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After hearing high praise for Tom Holt, I decided to give him a try. I picked this book at random, and I was sorry I did. The plot, which is thin, was a loose idea around which several vague (and often un-funny) comedy skits orbited. Worse still, the plot is the same one that every thirteen-year old develops after reading Douglas Adams for the first time... God goes on vacation, hilarity follows. Well, laughter follows. Well, mild chuckling follows.
Not that it was a total loss... the idea of Hell having embassies on Earth is interesting. However, I will not be recommending this book to friends any time soon.
I can only say one positive thing about Only Human. It wasn't God-awful. In fact, it was cute in parts. I will be giving Tom Holt another try, and read Expecting Someone Taller or Who's Afraid of Beowulf. But this one will sit at the bottom of my bookshelf, next to the Piers Anthony books, collecting dust.
Still more Holt !
12. September 2009
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OK, I admit it my reviews for Tom's books are short, but I think he is an author you either hate or love ! I love his work, although some is better than other, so all I will ever say will be positive. Read and be assimilated ;-)
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