What do you do if you run out of Pratchetts

[rentawitch]

I really like the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next books.
In fact I am off to the Fforde Ffiesta next May Day bank holiday.

Am currently reading Fionavar Tapestry and it is rocking me even more than Tolkien did.

read Tolkien nearly 40 years ago for the first time.

[The Sweeper]

I've read 1 Fford, but both my sister and I have failed to find any more in our vague vicinity. I think we've ordered some on Amazon. I've also started rereading them, this time in order, but I can't read during exams!! I begun
a Holt and a Adams a while ago, but I somehow haven't got there yet.

[tarifa]

go cold turkey until the next one

[akfarrar]

Holt a bit of a disappointment - Blue Skies.

What was missing was the Satire - this was just fantasy (imaginative at times true) but without the human - which is paradoxical given the setting in the real world - strange how El. Prat can be much more relevant on the Disc!

Fforde next.

[Joel007]

I'm reading Fforde's First among sequels

[akfarrar]

Just started the Ffffford - Eyre affair (or something) - good so far - much better than HOLT

[sanityassassin]

I wasn't a fan of Holt but I like most of Rankin's stuff although he has written a couple of stinkers keep to the Brentford books. Robert Aspin is not bad also and there was another I read a long time ago who was very similar to Pratchett even using the Josh Kirby artwork called Craig Shaw Gardener

[Urlik]

Originally Posted by akfarrar

Holt a bit of a disappointment - Blue Skies.

What was missing was the Satire - this was just fantasy (imaginative at times true) but without the human - which is paradoxical given the setting in the real world - strange how El. Prat can be much more relevant on the Disc!

Fforde next.

I must admit that Blue Skies is not one of Holt's best

Foust Among Equals is far better IMO
Odds and Gods is also a fave
Grailblazers is up there as well
Djinn Rummy and Open Sesame are regular rereads
and My Hero is a another that I can almost quote from start to finish

[Thadlerian]

Originally Posted by Joel007

I'm reading Fforde's First among sequels

I've read this. How do you think it compares to the others?

[Montero]

You could try Mary Gentle's Grunts - war of light vs dark told from the point of view of the orcs. A lot nastier than Pratchett, but funny.

For fantasy with a funny edge to it, that isn't comic fantasy as such, try Tanya Huff's Keeper series, Summon the Keeper, Second Summoning, Long Hot Summoning. I found Summon the Keeper a little long in place - there is a love triangle that got on my nerves at times, however lots of very funny moments including hell talking back and a cat with attitude. It is set in current US/Canada and has the idea of Keepers, who basically sort out magical messes and accidental holes through to hell and the like. I liked Summon the Keeper enough to buy Second Summoning and adored that. I have re-read Summon the Keeper and second time round wasn't so irritated by the love triangle.

[Who's Wee Dug]

That was a funny book in the way of dark/black humour (pass me another Elf this one's spilt) cracked me up, it's like laughing at a sick joke then feeling realy guilty afterwards, when taken in context.

[Joel007]

Originally Posted by Thadlerian

I've read this. How do you think it compares to the others?

It feels like starting a new series, so much has changed since The Eyre Affair. I enjoyed it plenty, especially with her meeting the book versions of herself! I wonder what I'd be like as a character from a book...

[Essie]

I have to say if you read any of them - Fforde, Holt, Rankin or Adams you'll probably find something about them that you enjoy. They were all written to entertain and they all do.

[akfarrar]

Second Fford on order - and a Rankin.

Holt better hope for a devastating war cutting off all lines of communication to the real world and his being the last reading material available before I touch another of his!

[Urlik]

trust me, Blue Skies is nowhere near the quality of some of his others, although there were a couple of others that I wasn't as impressed with (snow white and the seven samurai and valhalla are also off my constant reread list) but I seriously recommend the ones I listed before (although thinking about it, Valhalla does have some chapters that that amuse long after reading the book)