The Game of X [Paperback]

Robert Sheckley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace Books (September 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441273084
• ISBN-13: 978-0441273089
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,279,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the funniest books you're likely to ever read., August 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Game of X (Paperback)

I've read and re-read this book at least a half-dozen times in the past 30 years. Parts still reduce me to helplessly uncontrolled laughter. Superb spoof of the James Bond type spy genre of the 1960s. As funny today as when new, like most of Sheckley's early material.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great! - forget about Douglas Addams - read this instead!, March 26, 2000

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This review is from: The Game of X (Paperback)

This is just about the most hilarious book I have ever read. And I have read most of the stuff by Addams and Pratchet. It is about a typical guy who is looking for a job and sort of accidentally ends up as an alleged super agent of a very secret secret agency. He then is supposed to extract a communist defector from Venice. This turns out to be most difficult and (for the reader) funny.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious and exciting spoof of spy books., September 11, 1995

By A Customer

This review is from: The Game of X (Paperback)

"The Game of X" is not the usual type of Sheckley book. He leaves sci-fi and fantasy to take on the spy field. The hero is just a regular guy who is mistaken for a spy. He knows nothing of the circumstances he is thrust into but through quick wits he makes the right moves and with a lot of luck his wrong moves turn out to be the right ones because his opponants have misjudged his abilities. It is "a great read". I could not put it down and someday I'll find it again --- and hang on to it this time!