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The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1)
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Description: In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza delivery. So it's a surprise when the visions start. Not only do they predict the death of the Last Dragon at the hands of a dragonslayer, they also point to Jennifer, and say something is coming. Big Magic ...
Read by Jane Collingwood: 6:36hrs
If you love Robert Rankin and PTerry then chances are you will adore the Fforde's humour too. I personally prefer the more adult Pickwick series.
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bookshelves: fraudio, published-2010, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015, series, dragons, doo-lally, satire, eng-herefordshire, britain-england, britain-wales, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, kiddlewinks
Dec 16, 2013
bookshelves: fraudio, published-2010, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015, series, dragons, doo-lally, satire, eng-herefordshire, britain-england, britain-wales, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, kiddlewinks
Description: In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza delivery. So it's a surprise when the visions start. Not only do they predict the death of the Last Dragon at the hands of a dragonslayer, they also point to Jennifer, and say something is coming. Big Magic ...
Read by Jane Collingwood: 6:36hrs If you love Robert Rankin and PTerry then chances are you will adore the Fforde's humour too. I personally prefer the more adult Pickwick series.
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Dec 16, 2013 12:02PM
Me too!
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Wanda wrote: "Me too!"xxxx
Remember before the GRAmazon fiasco, how I made mention that I learned to drive while practicing in my father's Green, Yellow and Blue VW Beetle Bugs just like the orange one pictured on the cover? I would dearly love to own a 1971 Super B and paint it either pink with orange polka dots or orange with pink polka dots. Wouldn't I be grand sporting around town in a vehicle such as that? To be sure, I would be a sensation.
Wanda wrote: "Remember before the GRAmazon fiasco, how I made mention that I learned to drive while practicing in my father's Green, Yellow and Blue VW Beetle Bugs just like the orange one pictured on the cover?..."You would light up them there drab roads!
:O)
Thanks Wanda, Laura, Chris!:O)
I love Jasper Fforde - such a wacky sense of humour and very clever. I do hope you enjoy it.
Thanks Eleanor, Wanda, Laura, Chris, Henry, Stephanie, Marita, Ij, Ivonne!:O)
