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Bezig met laden... If at Faust You Don't Succeeddoor Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is the sequel to Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, which I read (and enjoyed) at least twenty years ago. However, I recall being unable to get into this book and ultimately giving up on it. I gave it more of a chance this time and read the whole thing, but it never lived up to its predecessor. Honestly, it's a bit boring, and the writing style is uneven. Yes, it was written by two people, but sometimes it seemed like they alternated paragraphs without reading the previous one. The characters from the previous book do make appearances, but they're kind of shoehorned in, to the point where you don't need to have read the first book to follow this one - they don't have a whole lot to do with each other, other than both being about the Millennial Contest (the contest between Good and Evil to decide who gets to rule Earth for the next thousand years). All in all, pretty forgettable. ( ) A vos marques ! Le nouveau concours entre les forces du Bien et du Mal va commencer ! Et le jeu en vaut la chandelle : le gagnant dirigera la destinée des hommes pendant un millénaire. Représentant de l'humanité : l'illustre Dr Faust, brillant alchimiste, maître penseur, et insupportable poseur. Hélas, Méphistophélès, grand ordonnateur des épreuves, se trompe de concurrent et promène de siècle en siècle un voyou nommé Mack le Gourdin. Sa mission ? Changer le cours de l'histoire. De la prise de Constantinople à la fuite à Varennes, en passant par la Florence de Laurent le Magnifique, l'humanité semble bien mal barrée ! D'autant que tout le monde s'en mêle : sorcière, héros légendaires, demi-dieux... chacun défend son steack. Et Lui, tout là-haut au plus haut des cieux, qu'est-ce qu'Il fabrique pendant ce temps-là ? The celestial war is faught with the help of the humans, it was supposed to have been Faust but it ended up being Mack the Club, trying to rob Faust. A series of adventures in time with some famous characters. The story sometimes comes across as being a frame to visit historical characters on rather than being a truly coherent story. Fun and light but undemanding. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The last Millennial contest--between the forces of Good and Evil for control of the universe--didn't work out quite so well for Evil and its rooters. But it's time for the next round, and this time the demon Mephistopheles is carrying the ball for the forces of Darkness. But all is not as it seems. The harried archdemon mistakenly signs up a medieval cutpurse names Mack the Club, thinking him the learned Dr. Faust. The demon Azzie, still stinging from the Evil's last defeat (and not being chosen to head the current effort), takes events into his own claws. And the pious angel Michael--well, let's just say some of his tactics in the titanic struggle to come are not quite cricket . . . . From the Paperback edition. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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