Rich Parsons /Tony Keaveny - Colin the Librarian - 4

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Colin the Librarian

I got this book out of the library because the title seemed amusing. It wasn't. The book is roughly a send up of traditional fantasy - and the geeky teenaged male that tends to read them. As a satire, it could be good, but too much slapstick humour and goofy names is shoehorned into the storyline. Terry Pratchett's Colour of Magic is about twenty times better with almost exactly the same precept - An incompetant is forced out into a magical world which is horrifically dangerous.

The plot follows 'Colin the Librarian' as he flips from disjointed scene to disjointed scene in a science fiction / heroic fantasy cross-over universe.

Really, it's rubbish.


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