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You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps - Tom Holt

Description: ISBN 1841492833 / Author: Tom Holt / Genre: Graphic Novels / Comics / Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for ... more

You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps - Tom Holt ... his dad might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but starting at the bottom in the widget-making industry has somehow lost its appeal. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things round - a new work force that will improve profit margins and secure the company's future for eternity. The deal looks great on paper, but they do say that the devil is in the detail - and the old rogue certainly seems to be involved in some capacity. Colin needs help.

Newest Review: ... conveyancing, or accountancy, or architecture, or even software design. They do magic. Got a problem with a Balrog in your ... more

... Nuclear Reactor? Call Wells & Co. and they'll despatch Benny Shumway from their Pest Control department. Want a genuine, certified Castle in the Clouds? Cas Suslowicz in Civil Engineering is your man. Want to sell your soul to the Devil? Well... they can sort that for you too, but mind you read the small print. In You Don't Have To Be Evil selling one's soul is very much to the point, as it's what Colin Hollinghurst's dad, owner of a wretched little widget-manufacturing concern, seems to be intent on doing (much t...more

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You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps - Tom Holt: You don't haveto be Clever to Read this, but it Helps! (906 words)
by - written on 21/05/07 (Very useful, 47 readings)
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Tom Holt is, probably, the second biggest name in Fantasy Humour these days. Been around almost as long as Terry Prachett, has almost as many titles in print, and presumably has stacked up almost as much moolah. However, his approach to humour is not the same. Prachett's method: take a conventional fantasy setting and characters and plot, and blow them up and outwards until they becomes a ludicrous lampoon of the genre; that's to say, he parodies fantasy. Holt's method: take the real world, or a good big slice of it, complete with all its banalities and trivialities and petty irritations (especially its petty irritations) and inject a ... Read the complete review

You don't have to be evil to read this, but it helps. (1097 words)
by - written on 02/03/06 (Very useful, 222 readings)
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What do you do when you’ve killed of several major characters and sent the two most central ones off to Australia to live out their days as mineral mining millionaires AND you have to write a book in that same series? You base the story at JW Wells but pick out for yourself some new characters, throwing in a few familiar ones for good measure. Tom Holt had, I believe, written himself a trilogy-concluding book in “Earth, Wind, Fire and Custard” and suddenly found his publishers wanting more. So, in comes “You don’t have to be evil to work here, but it helps.” Colin Hollinghead is a young lad under-whelmed with motivation, good looks and youthful ... Read the complete review