The trouble with Harry

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Kat Macfarlane" <katmac at ...> wrote:
>
> Kneasy, old egg, are you a Tom Holt fan too? I first met him in the continuations to E.F. 
Benson's Lucia novels. Wonderfully funny but didn't quite have the Benson touch. From 
there went on to Who's Afraid of Beowulf, Expecting Someone Taller, and Flying Dutch. 
And it's been all downhill from there.
>

Yerss..
He has a fine appreciation of the ridiculous. The Sunnyvoyde Residential
Home for retired Gods in 'Odds and Gods'; a coach-load of demons 
getting lost on a works outing to Nashville in 'Paint Your Dragon'; 
Hell plc Management Committee and the Spectral Warriors in 'Faust 
among Equals'.
Inspired.
Bit disappointed with some of his later books, though.
  
> How are you on the Pterry?
> 

Do you mean T. Pratchett Esq., writer and the finest swordsman in
Christendom?
Yes and no. Some I haven't warmed to at all. Still, it's expecting
a lot to like everything an author puts out.
Witches - wonderful; wizards - not so hot ('cept the Librarian);
City Watch - usually good fun.
IMO one of his best books is one that isn't widely known. It's a 
collection of short stories, essays and reprinted magazine articles 
entitled 'Once More - With Footnotes' and is available from the 
NESFA Press only.

Kneasy