The Sheriff of Yrnameer
This mordant, fast-paced, witty tour of a delightfully improbable science fiction world combines The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with The Magnificent Seven.
This mordant, fast-paced, witty tour of a delightfully improbable science fiction world combines The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with The Magnificent Seven.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307455147 (0307455149)
Publish date: August 10th 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
When we first meet Cole--just Cole--he's being dangled upside down by a many-eyed, many-tentacled debt collector with a rich, mellifluous voice named Kenneth. Since Cole is unable to pay his debt immediately Kenneth is about to deposit his eggs through Cole's eye socket and into his brain. Cole es...
I think this book helped me realize that my favorite way to consume comedy is when its mixed up with a healthy dose of drama. This was a fun and funny book with an appropriately characituresque cast of characters. I smiled a lot and enjoyed the world created, which was, sadly, an utterly believabl...
Oh gods, this looks fantastic.
So, what does it say on the jacket again?“In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is a sci-fi comedy at its best – mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling page turner” Whoa, that is setting the bar pretty high, innit? I hope I won’t be disappointed.So, what have...
This book was so much fun. There were some parts that I actually had to pause and take a moment because I couldn't stop laughing. It was a nice quick read and from the first chapter I was hooked. Something that's really telling of a great book is if you're not reading and maybe off doing something e...
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