My Hero

By Tom Holt

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857233654
• ISBN13: 9781857233650
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Orbit
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Quality goofiness

Authors sometimes say that their characters take on lives of their own. I know the experience of getting lost in a book - I imagine that happens to authors too. Now make the two literally true and put them together: the character come to life and the living person turned into fiction. Starting there, Holt does a good job of keeping the reader amused. The book reminds me of some older comedies, the ones with in-one-door-and-out-the-other chase scenes. It's like that, but with lots more people and doors that connect whole worlds.Good silly fun - I enjoyed this one a lot.

Amusing

This one of Tom Holt's better books, and very good. The plot concerns a writer and her um characters. If you have ever wondered what happens to characters when the writer knocks off for the day, here is one man's idea of their habits. It gets a little more complicated than that though... Jane Armitage, the writer of a fantasy series, is contacted by an unfortunate western writer who has been stuck in his books for 30 years. He begs for her help and the assitance of her hero. She sends him off to help and unwittingly helps set in motion the end of the world. This is very funny and invades several clssic works of literature, but many of Tom Holt's stock incidental characters seem to have gone missing. Danny Bennet does not make an appearance, nor does the bounty hunter.