- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Orbit & Abacus
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1841495077
- ISBN-13: 978-1841495071
- Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 3.3 x 23.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 481 g
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4.2 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
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.
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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
4.0 out of 5 stars
Typical Tom Holt novel, Feb 6 2012
By Hank Quense - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages (Paperback)
this is a typical Holt novel, filled with bizarre situations and strange characters. It's a blend of mostly fantasy with some scifi thrown in.Holt's book includes:
A vanishing dry cleaning shop,
Piglets who disappear from their mother's barnyard then return as real estate moguls, politicians, archbishops and government officials.
A pair of knights who fight to the death several times a day.
A magical pencil sharpener (formerly a magical ring).
Female lawyers and guitar players getting transformed into chickens (in the pig's barnyard)
And this is not the complete list of strange happenings
Only Tom Holt can write a story like this. The amazing thing about Tom is that he can bring all these plot threads together at the end and make it work.
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