The Witches of Chiswick
by:
Robert Rankin (author)
1st edition 1st printing British hardcover as new condition book & dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
1st edition 1st printing British hardcover as new condition book & dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780575073142 (0575073144)
Publish date: August 1st 2003
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Wow. This started out harmless enough with a little sci-fi and some humor, and then added witches, and time travel, and then more time travel, and then HG Wells, and Mary Poppins and the Elephant Man, and then it started getting strange!I certainly like my humor goofy, but this got downright silly, ...
Almost as funny as Terry Pratchett. Rankin's style is different than Pratchett. Pratchett has humor and points. His characters are real people. Rankin is funny, his characters aren't real people. What drives the book is the humor and the playing on ideas. This playing is very clever and very r...
I read this a long time ago but remember it very fondly. I don't remember the exact details but it definitely had me laughing and thinking. The writer is skilled at this particular style
I read this a long time ago but remember it very fondly. I don't remember the exact details but it definitely had me laughing and thinking. The writer is skilled at this particular style
21 years ago
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