Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780330321327 ISBN: 0330321323 Label: Tor Manufacturer: Tor Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: February 11, 1994 Publisher: Tor Sales Rank: 2570477 Studio: Tor
Product DescriptionThis is a spoof of everything from fairytales to Biblical notions. The demon Azzie Elbub finally thinks he's in with a good chance of tipping the balance towards evil once and for all. The millennium approaches and the forces of Good and Evil are in a battle for supremacy.
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Rating: - Funny Fairy Tale Spoof
Azzie Elbub is just another demon slaving away in The Pit, North Discomfort section 405, when he is summoned topside. Seeing a chance to improve his situation, Azzie comes up with a plan to represent the forces of darkness in the great Millenial Contest between good and evil. The plan: To recreate the Sleeping Beauty story with protagonists made of recycled body parts, the princess murdering the prince in the final act.
The future looks bright and rosy (or dark and gloomy, as the case ... Read More
Rating: - Not Free SF Reader
A fantasy comedy. You have fairy tale spoofs, of course, here. A demon goes about trying to win an evilness competition. Hilarity ensues. Think Good Omens crossed with Xanth, or that sort of thing. The demon is not that bad a guy, it seems, when you see things from his point of view, and what he has to get up to just to get along, particularly putting up with incompetent humans, and others. Fairly funny.
Rating: - Not Quite Charmed
Zelazny always had a little bit of fun with his stories of various supernatural beings, and Sheckley was known for writing with a bit of tongue in cheek, so this novel portraying the exploits of one demon, Azzie Elbub, should have been a hand's down snap for them.
Indeed, the book starts smartly, as Azzie, through the fortuitous happening of someone in Hell grabbing a soul too early, and the higher ups not wanting to deal with the resulting lawsuit (obviously, lawyers are much worse than ... Read More
Rating: - A brilliant, very funny novel that fizzles toward the end
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming starts out like gangbusters, starts to hit some slow patches midway through, and sort of just fizzles at the end, but it's still a very funny book by the writing duo of Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley. The main character is Azzie Elbub, a demon who finally gets the chance to get out of the pits and go back up to earth, thanks to the Grim Reaper's slightly premature harvesting of a certain soul; even the devil wants nothing to do with lawsuits, so he sends Azzie along ... Read More
Rating: - Harmless diversion
This novel is definitely worth reading, especially if a reader is looking for relaxation and fluff. The story is a cute, fast read. It promises more than it delivers, but I did not begrudge the authors as I certainly enjoyed the time spent. In actually reminds me of a "Myth" book that mythed its mark...good for rainy or sick days.
- Not Quite Charmed
