- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: ISIS Audio Books; Unabridged edition (July 1 2011)
- ISBN-10: 1445013789
- ISBN-13: 978-1445013787
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A great mix of the fantastical and the funny ...another great satirical offering from Tom Holt that entertains thoroughly while effortlessly moving between the silly and the smart Bookgeeks.co.uk Crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious ... His writing is in the same mould as that of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jasper Fforde TheBookBag.co.uk 'I loved this book ... prepare to have a wild ride that doesn't always make sense, has lots of twists and turns and craziness but is good, clean, mind-bending fun' LifeWithBooks.com
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Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner's.
And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it's going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.
From one of the funniest voices in comic fiction today comes a hilarious tale of pigs and parallel worlds. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it's going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.
From one of the funniest voices in comic fiction today comes a hilarious tale of pigs and parallel worlds. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sows, chickens, knights and disappearing housing estates, Feb 27 2011
By Ivy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages (Paperback)
A sow that has figured out how to achieve teleportation, a dry cleaners that magically moves lock, stock and barrel every forty-eight hours, a slice of medieval world within a loo, battling knights, chickens who believe they're human, and disappearing housing estates. Just a typical day in the world Tom Holt has created in LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF SAUSAGES.I'm a big Tom Holt fan and was excited to see LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF SAUSAGES. It took me longer to get into this than any of my previous reads by Mr. Holt. There is a certain mindset required but even then it was hard to get into. For me it lacked the humor and fun that I've come to associate with Mr. Holt's flights of fancy. There were too many tangents, too many characters, and not enough cohesion. The result was a tad confusing on occasion and the tie together at the end was less than satisfying. It's worth the read, especially if you're a fan, but I felt it fell short of Mr. Holt's usual high standard.
I received this from Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
irreverent slice of beef satirical fantasy, Feb 25 2011
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages (Paperback)
Real Estate solicitor Polly Mayer fears she is losing her mind. First there is her coffee that someone else apparently drinks. Then there is her party dress at the dry cleaners; only problem is that the dry cleaning store is no longer at the spot where she swears she dropped off her dress. At work, someone has been counseling her clients and keeping her files current.Desperate Polly talks to her brother Donald the jingle writer who boiled water for pasta but has an empty box. After wishing his neighbor upstairs would leave, the pest abruptly goes away. He next meets chickens arguing that they are human and a sow searching for her missing offspring, Donald muses like Sherlock Holmes until he concludes magic exists, but has run wild. With his stunned sister, he investigates the pasta fiasco only to find experts trying to control the chaos as if pigs could fly; chauvinist sows and porkers attending Harvard or Oxford are attainable except the species is so picky as to the company they keep.
This is an engaging irreverent slice of beef (don't say slice of pork, sausage or bacon unless you are in Congress) satirical fantasy. The story line contains too many subplots that fail to gel into a cohesive tale; yet readers who appreciate something different will enjoy the insanity of Tom Holt's chaos. Placing Gulliver's Travels in Animal Farm, Mr. Holt provides a Theater of the Absurd as the siblings learn pigs might fly.
Harriet Klausner
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, but could have been better, Mar 12 2012
By 7of7 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages (Paperback)
I had high hopes for this novel. It started out strong with one of the best first chapters I've read in a long time. A perfect Adams-ian blend of comedy and scifi. But after that first chapter the novel started to thrash around quite a bit. It almost feels as though the author started out with a few interesting ideas, but had no clue how to connect them together into a single story. Although the characters are interesting at times, as the story progresses, it makes less and less sense. In the end a long winded explanation is needed to tie it all together in an unsatisfactory fashion (this is where we find out that the entire novel is based on a pun!) Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much of a connection between the first chapter and the rest of the novel. Not as well thought out as some of his earlier work.
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