Funniest fantasy I've read in a long time, a lot darker then Sir Terry but the best parts weren't the fantasy in the fantasy but the author stuff. I saw a lot of this coming in adavance but knowing what was to happen didn't detract from the novel. ( )

This book is gold. A top notch fantasy that if read as a straight up fantasy works but there is so many layers in this story that it will have me thinking about it for a long time.
The story focuses on the writing world and adult concepts fame, fortune and what it sometimes takes to attain and sometimes keep it.
I don't want to write any spoilers but this story is Awesome. It is hilarious, and sad at the same time all the while keeping the elements of fantasy ties to the real world in place. ( )

Skewers every sci/fi/fantasy book or movie; plus writing, the publishing industry, and librarians. Laughed throughout despite being very dark in the end. ( )

Author Philip Murdstone's has always written realistic teen novels about sensitive boys. Now they are not selling, and his agent tells him he must write a fantasy. Murdstone hates fantasy, but somehow finds himself enmeshed in an alternate world with a scribe who writes for him. ( )

The Murdstone Trilogy is a response to all those door-stopper fantasy novels that have taken over the old science fiction category and overflowed into general fiction.

Philip Murdstone is a Young Adult author sliding into obscurity. His agent persuades him to write a fantasy novel to reverse his fortunes, even though Murdstone hates fantasy fiction. Mudstone takes the challenge and becomes entwined with creatures from another dimension who supply him with a history of their world that he presents as his novel. Massive success follows. As he looks for further episodes he becomes more deeply involved in this alternate world and realises he has become an integral part in its ongoing war between good and evil.

Blackly humorous with hugely exaggerated characters from our world and unfathomable creatures and rituals from another, Peet shows the absurdities of the fantasy genre and reveals much about the work of an author. ( )