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Plob
PLOB Collection: Plob / PLOB goes South / PLOB fights back
PLOB
Sometimes the only way to fight Evil is to simply go to work every day and do your job. Plob - Reetworthy Plob - Reetworthy Plob the Third - was doing just that. And it's proving to be more difficult than picking his nose with his elbow. What with attempting to restore his Grandfather's good name, learn the words of the Beer,Beer, Beer song and battle constantly with his testosterone fueled fantasies - he hardly has any time left to save the world.
But Bill the Plumber is on the loose and someone has to stop him..and that someone just happens to be Plob,with a little help from;a psychotic barmaid, a master magician, a cabbie,an accountant and a Trogre with fists the size of a wheelbarrow.
Plob - it's funnier than the plague, shorter than the bible and cheaper than the Mona Lisa.
PLOB goes South
Plob is back…and so is his arch nemesis, Typhon the Dark. And now the Big T is playing for keeps. It’s world domination time and once again the only one that can stand in his way is the teenage magician Plob and his master, Smegly. But they do have some help in the shape of the British and the Australian secret service, some giants, a cockerel and the infamous hobby-horsemen of the Hors-doovrees.
But will it be enough…because this time Typhon has something up his sleeve in the form of a battalion of Nazi Storm troopers courtesy of the 3rd Reich. So Heil Typhon and prepare for another serving of white-hot comedy from the best selling fantasy author Craig Zerf.
PLOB fights back
Plob the teenage magician, Master Smegly, Typhon the dark, Dragons, talking trees, goblins and…Winston Churchill??
Yes, Plob is back to save us once again and this time things got even harder. No expense has been spared with a cast of …lots and lots…space ships, time travel, Spitfires and girls in skin-tight leather. All in miraculous 2D format.
Craig Zerf continues his drive to provide the planet with the best of comedic fantasy with the next irrepressible instalment of the adventures of the beloved Plob.
Sometimes the only way to fight Evil is to simply go to work every day and do your job. Plob - Reetworthy Plob - Reetworthy Plob the Third - was doing just that. And it's proving to be more difficult than picking his nose with his elbow. What with attempting to restore his Grandfather's good name, learn the words of the Beer,Beer, Beer song and battle constantly with his testosterone fueled fantasies - he hardly has any time left to save the world.
But Bill the Plumber is on the loose and someone has to stop him..and that someone just happens to be Plob,with a little help from;a psychotic barmaid, a master magician, a cabbie,an accountant and a Trogre with fists the size of a wheelbarrow.
Plob - it's funnier than the plague, shorter than the bible and cheaper than the Mona Lisa.
PLOB goes South
Plob is back…and so is his arch nemesis, Typhon the Dark. And now the Big T is playing for keeps. It’s world domination time and once again the only one that can stand in his way is the teenage magician Plob and his master, Smegly. But they do have some help in the shape of the British and the Australian secret service, some giants, a cockerel and the infamous hobby-horsemen of the Hors-doovrees.
But will it be enough…because this time Typhon has something up his sleeve in the form of a battalion of Nazi Storm troopers courtesy of the 3rd Reich. So Heil Typhon and prepare for another serving of white-hot comedy from the best selling fantasy author Craig Zerf.
PLOB fights back
Plob the teenage magician, Master Smegly, Typhon the dark, Dragons, talking trees, goblins and…Winston Churchill??
Yes, Plob is back to save us once again and this time things got even harder. No expense has been spared with a cast of …lots and lots…space ships, time travel, Spitfires and girls in skin-tight leather. All in miraculous 2D format.
Craig Zerf continues his drive to provide the planet with the best of comedic fantasy with the next irrepressible instalment of the adventures of the beloved Plob.
612 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 3, 2013
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About the author
Craig Zerf
247 books119 followersCraig Zerf is a full-time writer who has been awarded the Golganooza Gold medal for Fantasy as well as being voted 'Best Read' by radio BBC United Kingdom.
His novels have been translated into French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and German.
Craig has lived in America, Africa and Europe and now resides in England with his wife and two imaginary cats.
His books have reached the number one Best Seller spot in both the United Kingdom and Germany and he reckons that writing is about the most fun that you can have without actually blowing things up!
His novels have been translated into French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and German.
Craig has lived in America, Africa and Europe and now resides in England with his wife and two imaginary cats.
His books have reached the number one Best Seller spot in both the United Kingdom and Germany and he reckons that writing is about the most fun that you can have without actually blowing things up!
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January 12, 2014
The adventures of Plob are silly, childish, inane and... bloody good fun! I like it.
February 18, 2014
It takes a lot to get me to write a review, but this book has managed it. It's one of the worst things I have read in a fair few years.
Currently this book has twenty five 5 star, one 3 star and two 1 star reviews on Amazon.co.uk. Part of me finds this quite surprising, a more cynical part of me doesn't.
I should have followed my gut instincts and avoided any book that describes itself as hilarious. Many other reviews bring up names like Pratchett, Adams and Sharp in comparison to Craig Zerf. I'll add Tom Holt to the list, but only because this book really made me wish that I was reading him or one of the others instead.
This book lacks the wit, subtlety, deftness of touch and cutting satire of those previously mentioned, but that's not why it gets 1 star from me.
Mr Zerf appears to believe that the more times you repeat the same joke the funnier it gets, he's mistaken. This is also not the cause of the 1 star review.
The book purports to be published by Small Dog Publishing Limited, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to investigate this publisher. I have nothing against self/vanity publishing so long as the underlying book is worthy of publication and this is where Plob struggles.
I only read the first book of this three book omnibus. That was enough for me. The humour fell flat on its face, I found the characters one dimensional and the plot (what little of it there was) was devoid of threat, tension or pacing.
At this point I'll mention magical silver bullets. This book needed several of them and you could hear the clang as they were dropped into the narrative. If you can't think of better plot devices than a magic bracelet that protects you and a friend from all harm, a magic cloak that makes you impossible to see and a one use magic cube that amplifies a spell's power a thousandfold, then maybe a change of career beckons. Still this is not the reason for the 1 star.
This solitary star review is due to laziness, namely the author's. I didn't start keeping notes until the third chapter, but by the end of the first book I had highlighted 67 significant errors. These included spelling mistakes, punctuation mistakes (missing or extraneous), grammatical errors, incorrect homophones, confusion between singular and plural terms, missing words, extra words, unknown words and sentences that made absolutely no sense. Here are a few highlights.
'a iPod', 'an creepy-crawley', 'Oiuja board', 'cohones', 'I recommend a room to retiring for the knight, and the others, and we will continue said discussions tomorrow.', 'catapults and siege onagers', 'yahdee yahdee' (yada yada) and 'I except this duty'.
Reading on the Kindle app for iPad, every now and then some words, or parts of some words were red, for no obvious reason. For a three book omnibus there's also no table of contents or navigable chapter markers. For an eBook this is unforgivable.
Mistakes happen and a few are almost expected, but this book gives every impression of having never been proofread and if the author cares so little about his work as to not have it checked then why should I care about it?
It may be that I have a tin ear for this brand of humour and that reading it on the train during delays and floods clouded my judgement. I'll leave you to decide that. My advice is to read the free sample before spending any money on this.
Currently this book has twenty five 5 star, one 3 star and two 1 star reviews on Amazon.co.uk. Part of me finds this quite surprising, a more cynical part of me doesn't.
I should have followed my gut instincts and avoided any book that describes itself as hilarious. Many other reviews bring up names like Pratchett, Adams and Sharp in comparison to Craig Zerf. I'll add Tom Holt to the list, but only because this book really made me wish that I was reading him or one of the others instead.
This book lacks the wit, subtlety, deftness of touch and cutting satire of those previously mentioned, but that's not why it gets 1 star from me.
Mr Zerf appears to believe that the more times you repeat the same joke the funnier it gets, he's mistaken. This is also not the cause of the 1 star review.
The book purports to be published by Small Dog Publishing Limited, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to investigate this publisher. I have nothing against self/vanity publishing so long as the underlying book is worthy of publication and this is where Plob struggles.
I only read the first book of this three book omnibus. That was enough for me. The humour fell flat on its face, I found the characters one dimensional and the plot (what little of it there was) was devoid of threat, tension or pacing.
At this point I'll mention magical silver bullets. This book needed several of them and you could hear the clang as they were dropped into the narrative. If you can't think of better plot devices than a magic bracelet that protects you and a friend from all harm, a magic cloak that makes you impossible to see and a one use magic cube that amplifies a spell's power a thousandfold, then maybe a change of career beckons. Still this is not the reason for the 1 star.
This solitary star review is due to laziness, namely the author's. I didn't start keeping notes until the third chapter, but by the end of the first book I had highlighted 67 significant errors. These included spelling mistakes, punctuation mistakes (missing or extraneous), grammatical errors, incorrect homophones, confusion between singular and plural terms, missing words, extra words, unknown words and sentences that made absolutely no sense. Here are a few highlights.
'a iPod', 'an creepy-crawley', 'Oiuja board', 'cohones', 'I recommend a room to retiring for the knight, and the others, and we will continue said discussions tomorrow.', 'catapults and siege onagers', 'yahdee yahdee' (yada yada) and 'I except this duty'.
Reading on the Kindle app for iPad, every now and then some words, or parts of some words were red, for no obvious reason. For a three book omnibus there's also no table of contents or navigable chapter markers. For an eBook this is unforgivable.
Mistakes happen and a few are almost expected, but this book gives every impression of having never been proofread and if the author cares so little about his work as to not have it checked then why should I care about it?
It may be that I have a tin ear for this brand of humour and that reading it on the train during delays and floods clouded my judgement. I'll leave you to decide that. My advice is to read the free sample before spending any money on this.
August 13, 2014
Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!! I picked this bundle up on a daily offer and put of reading it for longer than I should have. I haven't read a series of books and had that much enjoyment in a long long time. I don't know if I should be reviewing these books on an individual basis or as the collection as a whole, but the way the package reads its hard to find the joins so I'll go for the whole package. Basic plot, Plob was is an apprentice magician who embarks on a quest with his magician teachers and a the most weird but brilliant band of misfits you could ever wish to meet. In books one and two they start a quest to defeat the evil Typhon the Dark and his evil minions.These books remind you of a very silly and hilarious lord of the Rings quest. Book three turns into a Battle of Britain defence of Plobs world from Typhon's evil Nazi dragon troops, with the help of a misplaced starship. The books aren't overly long between 220 to 250 pages each, but they are crammed pack with the most brilliant hilarious comedy selection I have read in ages. These books aren't to be reviewed, they're to be read and enjoyed, trust me if you like Terry Pratchett, the hitchhiker series, the Blackadder series etc etc you will just love these books. Cant rate them highly enough thanks Craig just brilliant , roll on the next book !!!!!
November 27, 2020
Some laughs
Ok parts was comical but the way the story was told was not!! I'm not a fan of the type the writer did !!I The story jumped everywhere and nothing concrete about the main character or even if their was one!! Not my kinda book but others may find it readable.
Ok parts was comical but the way the story was told was not!! I'm not a fan of the type the writer did !!I The story jumped everywhere and nothing concrete about the main character or even if their was one!! Not my kinda book but others may find it readable.
August 10, 2016
I support every indie author, respect them for their effort and wish them all the very best, but in this case I am hard-pressed to find anything good to say. I kept telling myself 'it will get better', but I find the prose style virtually unreadable and could not bring myself to keep going.
For the author's benefit I will say, that maybe it was me (and the mood I was in) though I'm not aware of any particular foul one, but this is among the worst I have read - make that sampled - in a long, long time. Sorry!
For the author's benefit I will say, that maybe it was me (and the mood I was in) though I'm not aware of any particular foul one, but this is among the worst I have read - make that sampled - in a long, long time. Sorry!
July 20, 2014
For the stories, I'd give this 5 stars. It's very funny, laugh out loud in several places, combined with an interesting plot. However, the Kindle version was not edited at all. In a book that uses a lot of word-play, it's sad that there were so many typos and it was sometimes hard to decide what was word-play and what was typo. Zerf has no clue how to use commas and their placement seemed almost random.
Still, after a while it was possible to ignore all that and just enjoy the story and the writing. If this book had been proofread, I would likely have given it four stars.
Still, after a while it was possible to ignore all that and just enjoy the story and the writing. If this book had been proofread, I would likely have given it four stars.
July 7, 2015
I can understand why this series doesn't tickle everybody's funny bones but for me it was a genuine laugh out loud funny book. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams with a smattering of Red Dwarf you'll enjoy this writers style. The editing on the kindle is a bit odd at first, I had to change the text size to the smallest which was still far to big but please don't let it out you off. The characters are great, especially the bad guys. Funniest stuff I've read in a while.
February 4, 2016
Truly enjoyable for a fun and entertaining read. I smiled through the entire trilogy. If you are looking for an escape from reality that does not require you to think, then this would be a good choice. If you are looking for depth of insight, this is not the recommended source for that.
March 9, 2014
Quite a fun read, but hilarious is over egging it slightly.
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