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The Portable Door (Audio CD)

de Tom Holt (Author), Raymond Sawyer (Narrator)
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Had a bad day at work? Paul Carpenter, a new junior employee at J.W. Wells & Co., is having some for the records. As he sorts through interminable piles of spreadsheets, finds bauxite mines in aerial photos without knowing how he did it, and cleans up a strong room full of bizarre treasures, Paul is trying not to figure out his company's secrets--until goblins seize the girl he loves. Tom Holt sends up the workplace with a style reminiscent of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Raymond Sawyer sounds serious but stays playful as he reads the whimsical narrative. His Paul sounds a little too laid-back, but the goblins and other strange beings at J.W. Wells are spot-on. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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Starting a new job is always stressful, but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of H.W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. Because he is about to discover that the apparently respectable establishment now paying his salary is in fact a front for a deeply sinister organization that has a mighty peculiar agenda. It seems that half the time his bosses are away with the fairies. But they're not, of course. They're away with the goblins. Tom Holt, Master of the Comic Fantasy Novel, cordially invites you to join him in his world of madness by reading his next hilarious masterpiece.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 barely passable, Mars 29 2004
Par ichpokhudezh "ichpokhudezh" (Germantown, MD United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Portable Door (Hardcover)
Asprin + Carroll + Rowling + never-too-old story of an introvert falling in real love with an introversive second half. The story is not exactly up to the task on any front. It's not funny enough, not outlandish enough, not teenage-accessible enough and definitely not tear-jerking enough.
The only good thing the center of magical gravity is a door, not a carpet or a broom.
It would had been even heavier crossbreeding of others' ideas.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Slow start, but very enjoyable!!, Mars 21 2004
This review is from: The Portable Door (Paperback)
I automatically give any book extra points for laugh-out-loud moments, and although there aren't that many in this book, they ARE present, esp with Mr. Tanner's mum around.

Paul Carpenter is having a bad day. Well, it's his first day of work at J.W Wells & co as a junior clerk, along with Sophie, a woman with all the [looks], as the books' cover tells you. Nevertheless,when Paul and Sophie forget the company's rule of leaving the building by 5:30p.m., they discover that things are not all they expected. The building's owned by goblins, for one thing.

And when one of the senior partners sets them to cleaning out and categorizing all the odd items in the basement (they find Scarlett o'Hara's birth certificate and the map to King Solomon's mines, among other things) Paul finds things getting weirder and weirder. For one thing, he meets the mother of one of the senior partners. Mr Tanner's mum is a highly engaging character.

Tom Holt is oft compared to Terry Pratchett, but since his novel is actually set in England, I found his characters using a lot more English slang than discworld characters would. Although this can be slightly uncomfortable at first, you soon get used to it as the story takes you on a log-ride of a plot, with slow moments, sudden twists and turns, and a final splash of a climax before you climb out of the story.

Paul seemed unutterably wimpy at first, even annoying sometimes, but about halfway through the book, I started feeling sorry for him, and then rooting for him, and he finally did grow a backbone and I was cheering for him all the way.

Read The Portable Door if you're looking for a light-hearted fantasy novel about 'The Corporation' and two clueless junior clerks in England. I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected I would.

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