- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Orbit (2 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857238982
- ISBN-13: 978-1857238983
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 739,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It makes perfect sense that Snow White should live with seven samurai, once you've got the hang of Tom Holt's latest twisted fantasy comedy. Youngsters from our real world hack into fairyland's Mirrors(TM) operating system--which naturally runs on the wicked queen's magic mirror--and crash it so disastrously that all the stories get tangled. A spaghetti-western Dwarf With No Name (actually he's Dumpy) is hired to save three little pigs from the big bad wolf by recruiting a Magnificent Seven Dwarves' defence team, starting with Rumpelstiltskin and Tom Thumb but going downhill from there. Meanwhile, Fang the wolf has problems with Frog Prince transformations, Snow White learns from her own mirror that she has excellent wicked-queen potential and Baron Frankenstein's latest unholy creation proves to be Pinocchio. We also meet three colour-blind mice, the Beast fleeing in terror from Beauty, an elf who insists she's an "Indigenous Fairylander" and the Grimm Brothers--unconvincingly claiming that they're mere independent observers. After which, things become really complicated and silly, as Storyland is further fragmented by various mirror-users' efforts to gain control, until it seems quite reasonable that one little pig should find himself saying, "I am not a number. I am a free pig." Splendidly deranged entertainment, with quips galore. Holt's in good form. --David Langford
MAIL ON SUNDAY
`Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing . . . gratifyingly clever and very amusing'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hit and Miss,
By A Customer
This review is from: Snow White and the Seven Samurai (Paperback)
For me Holt seems to show pieces of promising brilliance and then, often, fails to pull it off. This one, though, twisting fairy tales, inside out and back again manages on the whole to be a reasonbly entertaining read. Not classic Holt, but knocks on the door... Running DOS!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A seriously funny read!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Snow White and the Seven Samurai (Hardcover)
This is the book I realised I've been waiting for. I'm glad that Tom Holt has finally discovered that Snow White was up to no good, which is what most of us have suspected for some time now, and the idea of a bunch of samurai dwarves tickled me no end. Verbal sight gags by the score, and two fingers up at logic makes for a book that even the most confirmed Cybergeek could find satisfying and insightful. Good twist, too, on the "merciless wolf harrying harmless piggies" thing. Most enjoyable, worth all 5 stars!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely magnificent!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Snow White and the Seven Samurai (Paperback)
This book is a brillant take off of the Windows Operating system - it is hilarously funny - you just have to read it!
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