Tag: comedic fantasy

The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

by Tom Holt (Orbit, 2017); audiobook read by Ray Sawyer (ISIS, 2017)

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Tom Holt returns to comedic fantasy with irreverent vengeance, not so much attacking religion as reducing it to absurdity. When Dad and Jay sell the Earth to deities running a different business model (pay per sin), only Santa remains to offer resistance.

 

 

Barking

Barking

by Tom Holt; audiobook read by Ray Sawyer (ISIS, 2007)

Holt_Barking

Do werewolves and vampires truly exist? Of course they do, says Tom Holt; they’re working as lawyers. Even though Sawyer’s delivery is spot-on, the audiobook drags a little, undone by an inability to keep pace with Holt’s fast, funny and simile-strewn prose.

 

 

Time Bandits

Time Bandits

dir. Terry Gilliam (1981)

Gilliam_Time Bandits

Gilliam’s impressive cinematography (on only $5,000,000) is wasted on an overlong, distended historical fantasy that tries to reel in both adults and children but leaves both groups unsatisfied. The Python-esque humour seems forced and the plot piecemeal in predating Bill & Ted.

 

Derelict Space Sheep