Short reviews of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and other novels

One-liners - Short comments about books, March 1999

These are one-liners, short comments on books that I read long time ago.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute and John Grant

These two books covers just about everything there is to know about SF and fantasy. Enc. of SF were published 1993, Enc. of Fantasy were published 1997, so they are pretty up to date.
You will most surely find many new authors you want to check out after browsing these books.
Highly recommended if you enjoy this genre.

You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites:
This book at Amazon.co.uk: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Europe)
This book at Amazon.com: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (USA)
This book at Amazon.co.uk: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Europe)
This book at Amazon.com: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (USA)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt crime/fiction Vintage, published 1 Jun 1995 ISBN: 0099521016 400 pages Review written in March 1999 You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book): This book at Amazon (UK) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil This book at Amazon (Deutschland) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil This book at Amazon (Canada) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil This book at Amazon (USA) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I stumbled onto this book at a sale-out. It is great and very descriptive, in the first fifty or so pages I found all the details a bit annoying, but after that I loved the book.
Havn't seen the movie, but I doubt it can make the book justice.

Reviews of books written in a similar style: My review of William Boyd's The Blue Afternoon

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The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams science fiction/humourous William Heinemann, published 16 Oct 1995 ISBN: 0434003484 784 pages Review written in March 1999 You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book): This book at Amazon (UK) The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy This book at Amazon (Deutschland) The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy This book at Amazon (Canada) The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy This book at Amazon (USA) The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

The first time I read this book was when I at the age of 15 or so were looking for humourous books. I doubt that I never enjoyed a book so much as the first part of this series. The humor is outrageous and it is impossible to avoid laughing out loud.
Imo, I find the first three books the best, but you'll surely enjoy all the five books. If you enjoy the books, try to pick-up the CDs with the radioshow, whatever they will cost, you won't regret getting them!

Reviews of books written in a similar style: My review of Phil Janes's The Galaxy Game My review of Terry Jones's Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic My review of Grant Naylor's Red Dwarf

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The Hotel by Jeffrey Robinson non fiction Pocket Book, published 1997 ISBN: 0671010360 320 pages Review written in March 1999 You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book): This book at Amazon (UK) The Hotel This book at Amazon (Deutschland) The Hotel This book at Amazon (Canada) The Hotel This book at Amazon (USA) The Hotel

This is a very nice book, just about every chapter is about some amusing story that has taken place at a big hotel. There aren't any strong links to each chapter, so you can see the book as a short story collection, which make it a great companion for reading at the bus to/from work.

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Ronan the Barbarian by James Bibby fantasy/humourous Gollancz, published 6 May 1996 ISBN: 1857983084 272 pages Review written in March 1999 You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book): This book at Amazon (UK) Ronan the Barbarian This book at Amazon (Deutschland) Ronan the Barbarian This book at Amazon (Canada) Ronan the Barbarian This book at Amazon (USA) Ronan the Barbarian

This is a parody of the famous Conan character. Humourous fantasy that is quite amusing, the end was a bit abrupt, this is the first book in a trilogy so you should probably pick up the other copies if you don't want to get disappointed.

Reviews of books written in a similar style: My review of Robert Asprin's Another Fine Myth My review of John Brosnan's Damned & Fancy

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Damned & Fancy by John Brosnan fantasy/humourous Legend, published 20 April 1995 ISBN: 0099512211 256 pages Review written in March 1999 You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book): This book at Amazon (UK) Damned & Fancy This book at Amazon (Deutschland) Damned & Fancy This book at Amazon (Canada) Damned & Fancy This book at Amazon (USA) Damned & Fancy

This is a bit like "Tom Sharpe goes fantasy". He writes very similar to the style of Tom Sharpe, and I'm not sure if I really enjoy that kind of humourour. If you do, and like fantasy, perhaps you should check it out.

Reviews of books written in a similar style: My review of Robert Asprin's Another Fine Myth My review of James Bibby's Ronan the Barbarian

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Striptease by Carl Hiaasen crime/humourous ?, published ? ISBN: ? ? pages Review written in March 1999 You can find other peoples opinions of this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book): This book at Amazon (UK) Striptease This book at Amazon (Deutschland) Striptease This book at Amazon (Canada) Striptease This book at Amazon (USA) Striptease

A satiric crime-novel, I think you can call it. I liked it, it has a rather pink cover so perhaps it will ruin your bookshelves apparence :)
It was some time since I read the book and I can't be more specific about it. They made a movie out of it starring Demi Moore, havn't seen that one, though.

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