- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: Orbit; New edition edition (27 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857231260
- ISBN-13: 978-1857231267
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 470,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Guy, a World War II Mosquito pilot, is surprised when his dead co-pilot seems to start speaking to him as they fly over Northern France. And before long Guy is caught up in time and travel, a search for Richard the Lionheart, and a beautiful damsel. By the author of "Ye Gods!" and "Flying Dutch".
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Like a James Bond movie, you know what you're getting when you buy a Tom Holt book. His protagonist in every story is basically the same person, although the gender may change; nonetheless,what Mr Holt does, he does brilliantly. I tend to laugh out loud a lot when I read and it annoys my wife so when she sees a Tom Holt story clutched in my mitt she tends to send me to another room. I buy a Tom Holt every year to take on holiday, which was the plan for Overtime but, sadly, I couldn't resist such was the lure. If you haven'd read Mr Holt's work before a lot of fun awaits. If you're already a fan, this one is up to the usual high standard.
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a huge rollercoaster of a novel, fast pace and more than funny. We are talking so funny that you'll be glad that you'll put your corset on or you'd be splitting your sides laughing!!!!
It is funny fron start to finnish, with more figres from history than a trip to the royal art gallery, and more funny than beign tourchered by nitrous oxide!! The our hero Guy Goodlet is a caracter that you'll imediatlly relate to and laugh to their hilarious antics that encoumpase most of the last millenia!!! Nice one Mr Tolt!!
It is funny fron start to finnish, with more figres from history than a trip to the royal art gallery, and more funny than beign tourchered by nitrous oxide!! The our hero Guy Goodlet is a caracter that you'll imediatlly relate to and laugh to their hilarious antics that encoumpase most of the last millenia!!! Nice one Mr Tolt!!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Overlong?
8 Mar 2004
Format: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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
More good bits just don't make a totally satisfying whole
19 Sep 2002
Format: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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