When Its A Jar, Tom Holt
When Its A Jar, Tom Holt
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When It's A Jar

Author: Tom Holt

Narrator: Ray Sawyer

Unabridged: 14 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 12/17/2013


Synopsis

Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife. And had his destiny foretold. . . and had his true love spirited away. That's precisely the sort of stuff that'd bring out the latent heroism in anyone. Unfortunately, Maurice is pretty sure he hasn't got any latent heroism.

Meanwhile, a man wakes up in a jar in a different kind of pickle (figuratively speaking). He can't get out, of course, but neither can he remember his name, or what gravity is, or what those things on the ends of his legs are called. . . and every time he starts working it all out, someone makes him forget again. Forget everything.

Only one thing might help him. The answer to the most baffling question of all. . .

When is a door not a door?

About Tom Holt

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines. These interests led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter. He also writes as K. J. Parker.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

I have no idea why I never read a Tom Holt book before now, but I think that’s pretty criminal and I completely plan on immersing myself in many of Holt’s books as soon as I possibly can. Fans of Terry Pratchett won’t want to miss this author, or this book. When It’s A Jar is one of those delicious......more

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Goodreads review by Rpaul

I really don’t like to give two stars to a Tom Holt novel but this one just really felt disjointed and missing the normal quick witted and funny nature of his books. It is my least favourite and seems to rely too much on connecting various aspects of other books. If you want to start reading Tom Hol......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Storyline generally engaging, though not gripping. A moderately funny read. Looking at other reviews, I agree that I should have read Doughnut first. Perhaps I can still figure out what happened in the ending of this novel if I do so later. Minor: The problem with plotting that depends on plays on w......more


Quotes

"Wacky humor bubbles through the polished narrative... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance."—SFX

"Uniquely twisted...cracking gags..." --- The Guardian (UK)

"Frantically wacky and willfully confusing...gratifyingly clever and very amusing." --- Mail on Sunday

"Blonde Bombshell is a clever, funny, tirelessly inventive, apocalyptic leg-hump of a book." --- Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author