false<![CDATA[Snow White and the Seven Samurai]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172856544m/224534.jpg2245342It makes perfect sense that Snow White should live with seven samurai, once you've got the hang of Tom Holt's latest twisted fantasy comedy. Youngsters from our real world hack into fairyland's Mirrors operating system--which naturally runs on the wicked queen's magic mirror--and crash it so disastrously that all the stories get tangled. A spaghetti-western Dwarf With No Name (actually he's Dumpy) is hired to save three little pigs from the big bad wolf by recruiting a Magnificent Seven Dwarves' defence team, starting with Rumpelstiltskin and Tom Thumb but goingdownhill from there. Meanwhile, Fang the wolf has problems with Frog Prince transformations, Snow White learns from her own mirror that she has excellent wicked-queen potential and Baron Frankenstein's latest unholy creation proves to be Pinocchio. We also meet three colour-blind mice, the Beast fleeing in terror from Beauty, an elf who insists she's an "Indigenous Fairylander" and the Grimm Brothers--unconvincingly claiming that they're mere independent observers. After which, things become really complicated and silly, as Storyland is further fragmented by various mirror-users' efforts to gain control, until it seems quite reasonable that one little pig should find himself saying, "I am not a number. I am a free pig." Splendidly deranged entertainment, with quips galore. Holt's in good form. <I>--David Langford. This review refers to the hardback edition</I> 18791301999Snow White and the Seven Samuraitotal:111|5:18|4:38|3:38|2:9|1:8|1113821781140falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sat Feb 07 22:51:34 -0800 2009Sat Feb 07 22:55:20 -0800 2009 The way the characters were portrayed was different to the fairy tales, with the seven dwarves replaced with seven samurai and a not so sweet Snow White.
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30falsefalseThu Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2007Mon Nov 24 07:05:44 -0800 2008Mon Nov 24 07:24:36 -0800 20081 Reading the 7 samurai taking the dwarves' place and vice versa was worth reading the whole book for, tho...]]>
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