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Limbo (Paperback)

by Andy Secombe (Author) "The castle lookout heard the pounding of the horse's hooves long before he saw it ..." (more)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Tor; paperback / softback edition (21 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405004843
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405004848
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,199,265 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Secombe's characters are engaging and his prose polished... consistenly amusing... it's good to have a fresh, original voice.' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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'Controls diverse regions of imagination adeptly with chaos and humour... it offers a wedge of unpredictable originality.' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 28 Jun 2005
By Michael Dixson (Bexleyheath, KENT United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Limbo (Paperback)
I'm half way through this book and already considering buying the second (hence being back on Amazon right now).
One thing I like about this book is that is jumps around between the (only seemingly) unrelated locations and people. It's like starting to read 5/6 different at first as with each new chapter you encounter new characters and new locations.
As you go on this means that you don't get bogged down in one area.
This is probably not your typical "fantasy" book so probably worth having a nose through a copy to see if it's your cup of tea.

For me it's getting so good right now that I nearly missed my stop on the trains yesterday!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Promising New Comic Fantasy Author, 29 Oct 2003

This book is a real pleasant surprise. As a regular purchaser of Comic Fantasy books, amazon and my local Otakars bookshop are often recommending alternatives to waiting for the next Terry Pratchett or Tom Holt book in order to rid me of my hard earned cash. Most of these recommendations turn out to be most dissapointing. Andrew Harman, for instance has got as far as mastering Terry Pratchett's now obligatory use of the Title Pun but definitely no further.

This particular book is more in the style of Tom Holt and deals with the barrier between the real and imagined. Most of the characters are little more than off the shelf stereotypes, but this seems to work with the scale of the story and it's landscapes. The humour is fairly constant, if not really laugh out loud, yet the plot still remains engaging enough to keep you turning the pages.

I see from amazon that there is a Limbo Two scheduled for the near future. Somehow though I doubt it will be as good as this. The impression you get from Limbo is of a life times worth of good ideas all crammed into a first novel. This is strenghthened by the fact that the author uses the tears in the fabric of reality to explore several different themes/genre including fantasy and sc-fi. I suspect that Andy Secombe doesn't have enough left to produce an equally good Limbo Two, but I shall be looking forward to it in the hope that he does.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Give your money to the homeless - it's better value, 21 Jun 2004
By Quasimodem (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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Well I bought this on the strength of the cover art and the review on the back. Boy was that a mistake. Secombe appears to be trying hard to be both clever and humerous at the same time, but falls sadly short in both cases. The story rambles along using a plot which shudders from the ridiculous to the, erm, ridiculous, and to be honest, it really just doesn't work. Weak characters, absurd and downright silly plot-inventions... thanks, but no thanks.
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