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Title: A Phule and His Money by Robert L. Asprin, Peter J. Heck ISBN: 0-441-00658-2 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.21 (47 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Absolute Garbage
Comment: I enjoyed the first two books in this series enough to read them a second time, but this collaboration was absolutely atrocious.
Every indication seems to be that Asprin wrote an outline which Peter J. Heck attempted to flesh out into a book: Unfortunately, Peter J. Heck has no sense of character or comedy. I only got a few dozen pages into the book before throwing it against the wall in total disgust, but time and time again I saw scenes which -- if the old Robert Asprin had been executing them -- would have been hilarious. Here, however, they fell flat and lifeless to the pavement.
There are no laughs here. The characters and the scenes are forced. All sense of a point is missing.
No matter how much you loved the first two books, avoid this installment at all costs. Indeed, the closer the first two books are to your heart, the deeper this book will thrust the knife.
Rating: 2
Summary: I wish such a sequel had not been forcedly published
Comment: I loved Book 1 "Phule's Company" and Book 2 "Phule's Paradise", but I hesitated to read this Book 3 because of these negative reviews. But finally I did read it, because I wanted to find out by my own eyes why this book was so badly reputed and how it was different from the previous two books.
Now I do know why. I expected it not so good as the previous books but so-so enjoyable, but I am disappointed. It's still tolerable that the nice mixture of humor, wit and warmth has changed to a noisy slapstick comedy. But I can't help feeling something is wrong; the characters's behavior and/or speech have delicately deviated from those in the previous books. Especially, Beeker has been deprived of his flavor. For example, Beeker calls the big brass "enemies". They are enemies indeed, but it is very unlikely for Beeker to use such a straight expression.
It might have been very difficult for any writers except the creator to reproduce the charm of this series. Or Asprin's memory and/or affection for this series might have faded in the long gap. Anyway, I wish such a sequel had not been forcedly published.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: As a long time fan of Robert Asprin ( going back to Thieves World ) I was very disappointed in this installment of such a fun series. It's pretty obvious right from the start that somebody else basically wrote the book. The character's voices, mannerisms and speech patterns all changed. Sushi no long speaks with an accent in broken english, and the other characters also lose that individualism that the first two books had. You could pull dialog from the first two books and pretty much know who was speaking by the way it was written but that was lost in this book. All in all it read more like an attempt to make money on a hit series than a real effort at continuing, what had been, a great bunch or books.
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Title: Phule's Paradise by Robert Asprin ISBN: 0441662536 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Phule's Company (Phule's Company, No 1) by Robert Asprin ISBN: 044166251X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Something M.Y.T.H. Inc by Robert Asprin ISBN: 0441010830 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Myth-Ion Improbable by Robert Asprin ISBN: 044100962X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Myth-Told Tales (Myth Adventures) by Robert Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye ISBN: 1592220010 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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