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Earth, Air, Fire and Custard - Tom Holt


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Earth, Air, Fire and Custard - Tom Holt

 
Description: ISBN 1841492825 / Author: Tom Holt / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / J.W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now ... more
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard - Tom Holt ... paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it (particularly when he fell head over heels for his strangely alluring colleague Sophie), but death is never far away when you work at J.W. Wells. Unlike the stapler - that's always going awol. Our lovestruck hero is about to discover that custard is definitely in the eye of the beholder. And that it really stings. Tom Holt's exceedingly comic fantasies are populated with evil goblins, annoying sprites and people like us. However, it's not always possible to tell the difference.

Newest Review: ... a fantastical tale with a pinch of office-based situation comedy thrown in. This makes this particular outing a major ... more

 ... departure for Holt, as no longer do we have the humour of office politics in a fantasy setting. Instead, we have a swords and sorcery parody that just happens to be based in an office near Starbucks. Fans of the Paul Carpenter series may find that the initial chapters drag horrendously as Holt tries to explain the back-story for newcomers to Paul Carpenter's world. This is a minor irritant for someone such as me who is continuing the series and is au fait with the goings on of the previous novels. However, it does allow th...more

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Premium Review Earth, Air, Fire and Custard - Tom Holt: Feckless hero comedy with custard please! (738 words)
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Paul Carpenter heads into work for just another day at the office. However, "just another day" working at the office of J.W Wells is one populated by the sexually rampant goblin known as "Mrs Tanner's mum". Furthermore, his internship is with the annoyingly omniscient Professor Van Spee. Add to this his unrequited love for the junior clerk and it is obvious that this is a man having a bad day. Unfortunately, his day is about go from bad to worse as he fakes his own death, murders one of his bosses and ends up in a world of custard talking to his fridge. As you can see "Earth, Air, Fire and Custard" by Tom Holt is not your average ...  Read the complete review

 

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