ctj@msudoc.UUCP (Chris T. Johnson {of Systems}) (01/22/86)
==============Food for the Line Eater===========
Alan Dean Foster's "The Paths Of The Perambulator"
(A Spellsinger Adventure)
Scoring:
Beginning: 5, Middle: 5, End: 5, Overall: 4
Book Blurb: There Goes the Neighborhood!
Nobody wants to be around when a freak of supernature called a
Perambulator enters the world, bringing with it some really weird shifts
in the fabric of existence ... like suddenly turning Jon-Tom into a giant
blue crab, or Mudge the Otter into a nasty disease ...
But the mad Perambulator is there to stay, unless the wizard
Clothahump can muster all his power and boot it into the next dimension.
So, despite the bumblings of Sorbl the drunken owl and the fitful runes
of a koala amateur wizard, Jon-Tom, Mudge, and Clothahump make their way
ever deeper into the realms where Chaos perambulates ... to find a deadly
foe that only the combined forces of illogic can hope to defeat....
Opinion: BORING. After reading the first books in the spellsinger
series I was ready for another rip roaring trip to a world gone wrong.
Instead we find a spellsinger who makes no major errors with "the
world's greatest wizard" along for a backup. Even with the strangeness
that Mr. Foster has installed in this world, nothing dangerous ever
seems to happened.
The old characters have no new traits displayed and the new characters
sort of wonder into the story and never seem to develop. This is the
point in a series where I say one more like this and never again.
If you are interested in a tipsy-turvy magic world read the first book
of the series "Spellsinger". I think you will be much happer then if
you read this book first.
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