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Title: Something M.Y.T.H. Inc by Robert Asprin ISBN: 0-441-01083-0 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.6 (25 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mostly Boring
Comment: I bought this book, excited that Asprin had come out with another MYTH Inc book. I love reading the perspectives from the series' most interesting characters: Chumley, Aahz, Tanda, and especially Gleep. What I got instead was the view-point of possibly the most dull regular character, Guido. He'd already had a whole book to himself, MYTH Inc In Action, and that was pretty tedious. Well, his extremely boring story takes up 80% of this book, featuring other extremely dull late-addition characters in a fun-lacking caper. Well, you get the idea.
The last few chapters which close up the first 12 books of the series are okay, but nothing really fun. Fortunately, he leaves it open for future books on a slightly different (still Skeeve-based) premise, which he hints at writing in conjunction with another author. As bad as this book was, I have hope that the next series will bring back the joy of the original books. (As evidence that Asprin can still write like that, his recent Myth-ion Impossible was great).
Bottom line: don't buy this book, read it in the library or wait for the new series.
Rating: 2
Summary: Weak ending to a mediocre series
Comment: I started reading the Myth books in college and enjoyed the quite a bit until Myth-nomers and Impervections, which started the downward trend to the series. I pretty much lost track of the series since Asprin also stopped writing them on a regular basis, but recently decided to finish off the series once and for all. I first reread the original 6 or 7 books that I still find entertaining, although not as much as I did some 10 years ago, then slogged through the rest of the series and finally got around to Something M.Y.T.H.Inc.
Basically, the book is a rehash as well as a cop out of the events in Sweet Mythery of Life and their consequences. What might've had some good potential for tension and drama were turned into bad jokes. Pookie shooting Guido? Gleep getting shot? All a misunderstanding. Hell, the whole "uprising" is one big joke. It's like Asprin couldn't think of a good way to resolve some plot threads he set up earlier and said hell with it all.
Also, why is it that the majority of the non-Skeeve viewpoints in the M.Y.T.H.Inc stories are handled by Guido? Nothing against the guy, but I'd really like to see some of the other characters' POV's, especially Aahz or Tanda. The faux-mob speech also really grates after a while. It really feels like Asprin missed out on several good opportunities exit the series on a high note.
My advice to anyone who hasn't started the series yet would be to stop reading at Little Myth Marker. M.Y.T.H.Inc Link is still a tolerable read, but sets up a lot of things that will require to read some very bad books to find answers for.
Rating: 5
Summary: no myth-stake, skeeve and co. are back
Comment: This is the final volume (as I understand it anyway) to Robert Asprin's Myth series. It's sad to see all our old friends--Skeeve, Aahz, Tanda, Guido, Bunny, etc--but the book does feel like it is time. It doesn't feel like Asprin has any more to add to the series, and he wraps it all up rather nicely. This is also one of those revolving viewpoint novels, though Skeeve's pov is included. It's a nice end to a great series.
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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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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 Alliances (Asprin, Robert. Myth Adventure Series, 1.) by Robert Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye ISBN: 1592220096 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action/Sweet Myth-Tery of Life by Robert Asprin ISBN: 0441009824 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link/Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections by Robert Aspirin, Robert Asprin ISBN: 0441009697 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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