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Amazon.co.uk (Europe): Paperback
Amazon.co.uk (Europe): Hardback
Amazon.de (Deutschland): Djinn Rummy
First published 1995
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN, paperback: 1-85723-363-8
ISBN, hardback: 1-857-23329-8
277 pages (paperback).
Djinn Rummy - In an aspirin bottle, nobody can hear you scream.
The back of the book says:
Outside an aspirin bottle, however, things are somewhat different. And when Kayaguchiya
Integrated Circuits III (Kiss, to his friends), a Force Twelve genie with an attitude, is released
after fourteen years of living with two dozen white tablets, there's
bound to be trouble.
Take, for example, Jane. All she wanted was to end her miserable life in peace, with a minimum of
fuss, in the privacy of a British Rail waiting room, but now she's got herself a genie for company.
Lucky old Jane. Lucky, that is, until the apocalypse rears its ugly
head.
After reading the book I scribbled down this on the 20th of June 1997:
A genuine genie gets into a lot of trouble when it get's realeased by Jane, a
woman that only was trying to commit suicide by eating far to many asprins
than any doctor with a degree would recommend. Imagine her surpricse when out
of the bottle a little genie named Kiss pops out and she suddenly gets three
wishes. Imagine Kiss surprise when Jane's first wish is that she wishes twelwe
million more wishes. Learn more about how genies work, and that there are more
of them around than you think. And that not all of them are good...some are
even bad. This book is a great one by Tom Holt, not his best but it certainly
will make you laugh for yourself. Hmm...funny that I always says something
like this about every book I read...let's change: Don't read this book..ever!
But read all other of Tom Holt's books and then let's see if you can resist
reading this as well ;)
Quotes from this book can be found in the quote-files.
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This book has also been translated to German.
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