Customer Reviews

Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 1

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

First off, I have enjoyed the anthology, but have a few complaints. After reading about 15 stories in a row between Michael Connelly and John Sandford I needed to lighten the mood a bit and these stories did a wonderful job. If we stopped here this would have been a five star review. My biggest complaint was the editing. It looks like Volume One was put together by scanning the prior books. This lead to words being hyphenated mid page or Ls turning up as 1s, other areas had extra or missing line breaks. It was enough to distract me while reading. Hopefully, if another printing is run, corrections will be made. Are the errors rampant? I am not sure how to answer that, I like to pre-read files for people and look for errors when reading. I may be remembering more errors than reality shows. Would I still buy this? I do not know. The stories are worth it, the question is one anthology or separate books.

I'd read four of the six books contained in this collection before, and I figured it was a good deal for the whole series (or will be whenever Volume 2 arrives). However, it should be noted that while for the most part the text is fine there are sections where it's very apparently a terrible scanning job from a previous printing. Indentation all over the place, words hyphenated in the middle of a line, punctuation showing up out of nowhere, and in one especially bad page many of the words end in subscripted letters. It's obvious that whoever was supposed to be checking the scanned text, didn't. Very distracting.

As for the content of the books: it's alright. I'd read them originally when I was much younger, and they don't "age" well. Not as bad as Piers Anthony (which I also read at that age). The last two or three books are much better, if you can make it through the junk of the first ones. Good light reading before bed, etc.

OK don't get me wrong the books are very very good and deserve 5 stars. The problem I had was the copy I purchased was full of typo and typsetting problems. I also was infuriated by the fact my copy repeated about 80 pages over again and omitted that many pages of Little Myth Marker.
My only hope is that other copies of this were not as bad because these books are great.
Ahz and Skeeve may be the greatest con men of all time. I know it starts off a little slow for Skeeve to deserve this title but by the end of Little Myth Maker he really comes into his own.
I only hope that Volume 2 that bought from Amazon does not suffer from the same typo problems.

Robert Lynn Asprin has a wonderful style of writing. Right from the beginning he manages to pull you in, as opposed to most other books where the first few pages are usually rather dull. I consider this to be a great series for both adults and adolescents. It's nice to have a space saving combined novel like this. The only reason I rated this a 4 instead of a 5 is because, for some reason, this edition of the book has many typos. When I originally read the first 3 volumes of this series, I don't recall there being this many typos.

This is one of the best series I've followed. It's nice to have so many of the books in one place, but the second of the set (vol 2) started loosing pages as I was reading it. I think they overstepped the quality of the binding a bit with these. There was also minimal re-editing done, so a lot of words are broken or hyphenated where they had been in previous printings. The stories are great, the book quality suffers.

I have loved this series since I was in High School and read the graphic novel. It's still great for a light read. I also like the fact that I could get the series in what will soon be two volumes, as I have lost all my originals.

However, as has been previously stated by other reviewers, the book has a ton of typographical errors. It became rather annoying trying figure out if words were being intentionally hyphenated for stressing purposes. Also, words run together, obviously misspelled, subscripted, etc.

These errors did not make me regret my purchase, but they were rather disappointing.

Now, how many typo's are in this review "complaining" about typo's???

I throughly enjoyed this book. The plot was great and I laughed the whole way through. Skeeve is a truly likeable character who is always getting into trouble, with the help of his mentor Aahz. Between those two they managed to gather quite an odd assortment of friends, including a pet dragon.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has a sense of humor.

It's really too bad the main character is named "Skeeve." This just conjures up images of Skeezix; skive; even Steve, an improbable name for a magician (though one can argue the bland "Harry" we all know is also rather improbable). These stories are funny in a Christopher-Stasheff kind of way, not a Discworld type of way; the characters all behave consistently and nothing is too bizarre. I liked the series (I read the first six books from the library) and have just ordered volume 2 from Amazon.

some people got a screwed up copy but mine perfect and I loved to get the colection as the small paper backs are to easy to mythplace

Set back, relax and just have a wonderful time with Skeeve and the group. Asprin paints a picture of social issues with tongue in cheak. Keith Laumer, deceased, did a series on Retrief poking fun at the Beaurocy(sp) that is a hoot and this follows not so much on politics as human nature itself.