- Gebundene Ausgabe: 277 Seiten
- Verlag: Orbit; Auflage: First Edition (1. Juni 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1857239830
- ISBN-13: 978-1857239836
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,6 x 14,4 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.621.863 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Rewriting the classic gods for comic effect is a Tom Holt speciality, and Valhalla returns to Odin the Skyfather, much mistreated in Holt's first funny fantasy Expecting Someone Taller 1987). Valhalla is the afterlife where warriors forever feast, get drunk, laugh at each other and are reborn the next day--the Viking idea of fun. But Odin, a devious bastard, has made changes ...
For Howard the pretend Viking, who joined the War-Band of Sigurd Bloodtooth (Smethwick chapter) in hope of pulling girls, Valhalla is a gory shoot-up with modern weapons. For older killers like Attila, Napoleon and Hitler it's like the thrilling suspense of watching paint dry. For Lin Kortright, theatrical agent to the gods, it's endless gruelling auditions for the part of Lin Kortright--every time, he "dies" on stage. Carol the cocktail waitress lands in a similar dead-end job as a serving wench in the traditional Valhalla, where there's a special briefing for Americans:
"Skyfather, his message: You in Kansas any more are not."
Indeed Odin gives everyone personalised Valhallas that nastily twist their own wish-fulfilment dreams. Clever one-liners and bizarre ideas come thick and fast as ever--few people suspected that the "voices" heard by Joan of Arc included police radios and Fairy Liquid ads. But Holt's emphasis on death and afterlife makes Valhalla a darker than usual comedy. There are manic chases aplenty, but can anyone escape Odin forever? Carol at least intends to have fun trying. Wild humour with a bracing touch of grimness. --David Langford
Kurzbeschreibung
When great warriors die, their reward is eternal life in Odin's great hall, Valhalla. But Valhalla has changed and like any corporation has adapted to survive. Unfortunately nothing could have prepared it for the arrival of currently-dead cocktail waitress Carol Kortright, who is not at all happy.
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After reading "Paint Your Dragon" (which was great) from Tom Holt I was really expecting a good story. But alas -- this story is only confusing, not really funny, not even exciting.
He put together stories of different szenarios, which might be kind of interesing solitary, but the context in he put them together is not good elaborated. At the end all plots converge, but not in good, logical or surprisingly fashion.
He put together stories of different szenarios, which might be kind of interesing solitary, but the context in he put them together is not good elaborated. At the end all plots converge, but not in good, logical or surprisingly fashion.
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Ich habe das Buch durch Zufall entdeckt und die Vorstellung einer Cocktailkellnerin in Valhalla fand ich irgendwie fanzinierend. Als ich anfing zu lesen, bereute ich schon fast, das Geld ausgegeben zu haben, weil ich einfach nicht verstand, was das sinnlose Zeug soll, dass der Autor da von sich gab. Aber wenn man die ersten zwanzig Seiten hinter sich hat, liften sich die Nebel langsam und man kann den intelligenten Humor des Autos geniessen. Einige Passagen habe ich dennoch mehrmals gelesen, weil der Autor es immer wieder schafft, mehrere Seiten sinnloses Zeug mit einer einzigen grandiosen Bemerkung aufzulösen. Sicherlich muss man das ganz Buch mindestens zweimal lesen, um alle subtilen Bemerkungen zu entdecken und zu verstehen. Wer mal Fantasy ohne die gängigen Klischees lesen möchte, sollte auf jeden Fall diese Buch lesen.
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Junk food for the mind
14. September 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
I really like Holt's writing - his best is hilarious. I can't say that Valhalla is his best. It has its moments, such as the predatory agent auditioning to be himself. I found it uneven, though, and slack about following its own internal illogic.
Still, it's a fun read, and better than going without any Holt at all. If you already like Holt, go ahead. If you're new to Holt, though, another title might make a better first impression.
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Subtly hysterical
9. September 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
This book has many threads seemingly all going in different directions. You find yourself waiting for Holt to tie them together in the bizarre unforseeable way that only he can. And he delivers.
The cast is a fabulous mix of modern day Joe's with issues, Joan of Arc who hears soap commercials between messages from the angels, a sleazy Hollywood-style agent finding gigs for gods, et al.
There is a great deal of humor in this book that can easily be overlooked. A character meets a headhunter (the executive recruiting kind): "the way he'd said headhunter . . . brought to . . . mind a mental image of a violin-maker rattling a spoon against a saucer and calling out 'Here, kitty, kitty!'" If that doesn't make you laugh, and/or you don't know squat about mythology you're probably going to miss a lot.
If you're up for a book that's totally ridiculous and whose punch lines you may not catch 'till you're three sentences past, check this one out. Be careful where you read it though. I laughed out loud . . . often.
unrewarding
7. September 2011
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
A whole book of characters wandering around asking "why is this happening and how do I make it stop". And we the reader don't have any more insight than them. Makes for an unrewarding read, especially when you're finally given some scant information at the end for why it was happening.
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