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Overtime (Hardcover)

by Tom Holt (Author)
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Guy is a Mosquito pilot in World War II. He is surprised when his dead co-pilot apparently starts speaking to him as they are flying over Northern France. And before you can say "Bomber Harris", Guy finds himself caught up in time and travel, a search for Richard the Lionheart and a damsel.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Overlong?, Mar 8 2004
By wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overtime (Paperback)
Once again, Holt combines proven elements to create an amusing story. The bewildered bystander is caught up in incomprehensible events. His staid world (yes, crashing his plane after a WWII dogfight is staid by comparison) turns out to be much more complex and much stranger than he could have imagined. He goes on an un-guided expedition, back and forth along the service corridors of history. All this in the context of the road tour of the greatest musician of all time - and I mean that phrase "musician of all time" in its most literal sense. Of course, certain agencies unspecified turn every party into a surprise party.

It's "in one door and out the other" humor, a nice way to break up a stack of professional journals and texts. The book's one repeated joke tends to wear after a while, though, and the ending self-consciously invokes a deus ex machina. Still, I wasn't after great literature. I was after an enjoyable way to let my mind idle for a few hours, and got what I was looking for.

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3.0 out of 5 stars More good bits just don't make a totally satisfying whole, Sep 19 2002
By Glen Engel Cox "www.engel-cox.org" (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overtime (Paperback)
While not as humourous as some of his previous books, Tom Holt still delivers the fun. (Judicious editing will make that as good a blurb as any of Rex Reed's.) I think I missed out on a lot that was going on here because I can't read French and thus was unable to translate the many chansons included here. This was also Holt's first book to really utilize time travel; he had used the concept of long periods of time between characters in Who's Afraid of Beowulf and Flying Dutch, but this is the first time modern characters have moved backwards in time for him. The trick with humourous fantasy is that the fantasy must stick to certain rules for the humour to come across as funny rather than just another piece of fantastic. Unfortunately, by the wild nature of time travel, Holt got very close to stepping over the line here. In fact, my favorite Holt novels are the "Walled Orchard" duo, in which he meticulously draws realistic Ancient Greek culture (with some ambiguous insertions of the fantastic; by the way, he is an ancient history scholar) and then adds the humour (although it had a tendancy to be slightly black because of the realism).

There's some great bits here: the definition of Time & Overtime, and how they differ; the Anti-Pope; the Beaumont Street investment firm (the Crusades always provided the highest yield); a wonderfully done deus ex macchina; and how the world was made. But this seemed to be made of more bits than whole. Maybe that's the nature of time.

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