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It starts out as a straight-up take-off of the Girl With ... but about 3/4 of the way through Roberts uses his SF chops to write a rather different ending.
As soon as Roberts realized that one character could be Lizbeth Salamander, this book must have almost written itself.
There's one rather icky dragon-rape scene, but in sum there's much less nasty stuff than in the original.
There are some groaner puns and a few truly cringeworthy ones.
In the end, t
You can read this quickly, and it's fun.It starts out as a straight-up take-off of the Girl With ... but about 3/4 of the way through Roberts uses his SF chops to write a rather different ending.
As soon as Roberts realized that one character could be Lizbeth Salamander, this book must have almost written itself.
There's one rather icky dragon-rape scene, but in sum there's much less nasty stuff than in the original.
There are some groaner puns and a few truly cringeworthy ones.
In the end, the new ending ties the book to some other books you may have read, and that's all I'm going to tell you. If you know anything about opera, that will help.
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My decision to begin reading this book was predicated on one thing and one thing only: The name and cover-art. And given some of the other books that I've begun reading for similar reasons, I'm glad this book wasn't a disappointment like the others. However, this wonderful spoof on the book that it alludes to in its title is not all humor and laughter.
Adam Roberts does a splendid job of 'dragonizing' everything in the universe. Be it names of bui
Blurb: The Spoof that could be the Real thing.My decision to begin reading this book was predicated on one thing and one thing only: The name and cover-art. And given some of the other books that I've begun reading for similar reasons, I'm glad this book wasn't a disappointment like the others. However, this wonderful spoof on the book that it alludes to in its title is not all humor and laughter.
Adam Roberts does a splendid job of 'dragonizing' everything in the universe. Be it names of buildings, people or hormones. But he hasn't sacrificed the darkness of the original story, nor has he spun the darkness for a comedic effect, and that in my view was prudent. Since at the heart of this spoof is a true mystery. One that is intriguing and gripping despite being a bit predictable. However, for all the positives of the story, I couldn't help but feel slightly disappointed by the final-third of the book.
A minor criticism that I have to offer against this book is its verbosity in certain areas. Areas where verbosity was neither required as a comedic instrument, nor did it play a big part in progressing the story. It was quite simply verbose. So much so that I found myself skipping through pages of tedious description to arrive at the interpersonal dialogue that pushed the story forward. However, the verbosity can be overlooked when enjoying the humor. And the quality of humor is wonderful. What cannot be overlooked however, is the gross negligence on behalf of the writer when it comes to the protagonist. And that's my major criticism.
The character of Lizbreath Salamander is everything one would come to expect from a book titled, "The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo". She's fierce, she's intelligent, she's eloquent and in the grand-scheme of things she's perhaps the least developed in terms of characterization. To be fair, none of the characters in the book are too developed. In fact, for the most part, I didn't feel the need for character development and was merely content with enjoying the eccentricities and inter-personal banter. With Lizbreath however, I felt she deserved more. Much more. She's a beautiful character and unlike the others that are either spoofs of the characters from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or spoofs of character-archetypes, Lizbreath holds the same gravitas that Lisbeth did in her story, and that merited a much more respectable treatment.
All in all, its a fun read. It's decently paced and despite it mishandling for its main character it'll still leave you with a smile on your face and the desire for a sequel.
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In the end though, although I got about halfway through, I had to give to give it up for an unusual reason: too much humorous dragon rape. There were some good jokes, such as riffing on the "anti-climactic" nature of the parodied book and a reference to dragons' dirty reading material as "Pernog
I side-eyed this book on the library shelf and read the back of some of the author's other books before grabbing it and self-checking it out before anyone noticed. Not the most highbrow of books, clearly.In the end though, although I got about halfway through, I had to give to give it up for an unusual reason: too much humorous dragon rape. There were some good jokes, such as riffing on the "anti-climactic" nature of the parodied book and a reference to dragons' dirty reading material as "Pernography". By the way, if you didn't laugh at that, there is nothing for you here.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo built up a great deal of trust with me in its depiction of sexual violence. No matter how bad it got, it wasn't glamourised and its perpetrators were always punished. Now that we're redoing it, but with dragons, the same scenes are back. I don't know whether the author felt he had to parody Lizbeth's rape because that was part of the original or if he thought he could make it work as humour or if he intended to make them as creepy as the original and offer a break from the humour or... Well, I don't know. The result was not good, regardless.
Avoid.
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As the name suggestions, this is a parody of the Millennium Saga, but with dragons. Set in Scandragonia, Kaal Brimston is hired to discover what happened to wealthy baby heiress Hellfire Vagner over 300
I've said it before and I'll say it again - it is really frakking hard to review a parody novel. I can't wax on about pacing, character development, and literary devices when the book is set up to take the piss out of exactly that. This book is a pisstake to the nth degree, and I bloody love it.As the name suggestions, this is a parody of the Millennium Saga, but with dragons. Set in Scandragonia, Kaal Brimston is hired to discover what happened to wealthy baby heiress Hellfire Vagner over 300 years ago. Hellfire simply disappeared from the Vagner's floating island one day, never to be seen again, and her grandfather, Helltrik Vagner, receives a severed dragon's tongue in the mail on the anniversary of her disappearance each year.
Because Kaal is an outright frakking moron he summons his researcher extraordinaire, Lizbreath Salamander, to help him get to the bottom of the mystery. They find that Hellfire hasn't been living on a sheep farm in Hostileia all this time, but that she's actually been in the castle all along, invisible to the naked eye! Oh, and that the castle is actually sitting on a "wyrmhole" linking 4 different dimensions.
If you liked Stephfordy Mayo's New Moan, you will absolutely love the sense of humour here. No stone is left unturned, with everything ridiculed to the nth degree. The author really plays up Kaal's stupidity and Lizbreath's desperate need to stay away from the ~*mainstream*~, and mocks the crappy anticlimactic ending to the first source novel, with an added Lord of the Rings reference.
And just like New Moan, the book actually presented some super interesting mythology underneath all that satire! It presents the idea of four dimensions linked by a wyrmhole: the fire realm, populated by dragons; the water realm, populated by mermaids; the air realm, populated by air creatures; and the earth realm, populated by humans. The air realm is mostly barren with winds having ravaged the land. I can't remember what happened to the water realm, but dragons probably don't go there, because water. The fire land is populated by dragons and they've eliminated humans from existence. The earth land is the opposite, being populated by humans who have eliminated dragons from existence.
I want a serious novel that explores the mythology presented here! It reminds me of the various worlds in Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series, where each has gone down such a different path based on a crucial decision someone made once upon a time. In some worlds there and magic and witches, and in some worlds there aren't. In some worlds the Germans won WWII, and in some worlds they didn't. I'm a sucker for alternate universe storylines (big fan of Fringe right here <----), so this totally won me over.
Overall: Whether you loved or hated the Millennium trilogy, give this parody a go. I personally loathed the storyline and writing style of the saga, and couldn't get enough of this novel. It's not like Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters where they kept the boring shite and added a few squid on top; it's funny right down to its core. Nothing is safe, and everything is hysterical.
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Overall I think Adam Roberts has achieved that balance.
The novel is set in a world that is inhabited by dragons, where humanity is considered by many to be a
This is obviously a parody of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Writing a parody is fraught with peril. What you as the author thinks is funny is not necessarily as funny in the mind of others. There is the added problem of how much of the original storyline to retain and how much to depart from, to give the parody its own story-telling legs.Overall I think Adam Roberts has achieved that balance.
The novel is set in a world that is inhabited by dragons, where humanity is considered by many to be a myth. This is also the world of Kaäl Brimstön, celebrated journalist, although he is actually a fraud, a secret that so far he has been able to keep from everyone, including himself.
This male protagonist is a bumbler, quite unlike Steig Larsson's original male protagonist. Or is this just Roberts's interpretation of the Larsson character?
Lizbreath is a wild, strange dragon, different in attitude to the norm. This character pretty faithfully echoes Larsson's original female protagonist, becoming a good counter-point to the bumbling Brimstön as a straight-man... er straight-woman...straight-dragon?
Initially the story generally follows Larsson's original storyline fairly closely, or as closely as it could in a considerably shorter novel that has dragons as the characters. Eventually the story goes off in its own direction which it had to do in order to have any real legs.
There is some nice comedy throughout although towards the end I was finding it a little repetitious. The ultimate resolution was achieved far too easily for my liking, but hey - this is a light, comedic read, not War & Peace, so get over yourself, Rossco!
While perhaps not to everyone's taste, this novel is a light, overall entertaining read.
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The story was easy enough to follow, but slowly lost energy as the climax in the book was met. When i finally found out that the knot of the problem was being unraveled, the book was nearly over making for a short lived amount of action for this particular novel.
Overall, the book was okay for the time being and fulfilled the void between books
There's not much else to say.
This was a fun parody of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not a great book, but fun to read. If you haven't read the original, there is no point in reading this one.There's not much else to say.
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I haven't read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but i hope in the future i will. While I was reading this reading I really enjoyed it, it made me want to read the original book. The writing style and how the characters were portrayed were fabulous and fantastic.
Overall, I truly enjoyed the book.
This is the first time that I do a review about a book, so here it goes.I haven't read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but i hope in the future i will. While I was reading this reading I really enjoyed it, it made me want to read the original book. The writing style and how the characters were portrayed were fabulous and fantastic.
Overall, I truly enjoyed the book.
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The book reads like the author had an obligation to put a joke in every 300 words, much like a hack radio DJ has an obligation to end each of their segments with a lame joke.
Adam Roberts (born 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine. He also blogs at The Valve, a group blog devoted to literature and cultural studies.
He has a degree in English from the
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.Adam Roberts (born 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine. He also blogs at The Valve, a group blog devoted to literature and cultural studies.
He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated twice for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001, for his debut novel, Salt, and in 2007, for Gradisil.
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