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Cargando... The Gutbucket Quest (2000)por Piers Anthony, Ron Leming
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I loved Piers Anthony's Xanth books (the ones I read, I probably got up to the 10th) so thought I'd try this one. Although Mr. Anthony basically said that he had nothing really to do with the writing, but just proof reading, it still seemed very much his style of writing. As for the story, the premise of a washed out quasi-famous heavy metal musician with a longing love of Blues music being blasted into an alternate dimension seemed interesting, but the story just never really intrigued me. I believe it may have been the protagonist's attitude which I didn't really agree with. Overall I felt it was an okay book, but certainly not one of my faves. ( ) According to the Author Notes, Anthony lent his name to this one to help a down and out author. I'm not sure I buy that. The tone is too much like Anthony's. This book feels like a grown-up Xanth novel. There aren't as many puns, but then the book is written for an older audience and the "mature content" doesn't have to be disguised. I enjoyed the story and liked the "matter of factness" of the magic. There's no real explanation - it just IS. And, since my husband plays blues guitar (among other styles), I really enjoyed all the musical references. But, no musical knowledge is needed to understand or enjoy this story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A blues musician is blasted into a parallel world in a novel that's "a houserockin' good time" cowritten by the New York Times-bestselling author (Booklist). Slim's a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck and just about broke--but hey, that's what the blues are all about. He loves his music: "Not the popular blues, homogenized, synthesized, and zombilized; but the real down-home gut-bucket blues." Then one day the music loves him back. In a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. It's a little bit magic and a whole lot different, but the blues are the same. And the blues--manifest here in the form of a maple-necked, pearl-gray Fender Stratocaster with blue-chrome pickups, aka the Gutbucket--need him and need him bad. The Strat's fallen into the hands of T-Bone Pickens and his Vipers, who want to suck up all its power and turn it to evil. Slim's off and running on the Gutbucket Quest, with the help of his new mentor, rhythm guitarist Progress T. Hornsby, and a purely unstoppable blues singer named Nadine. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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