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Originally Posted by Graham

I've read The Portable Door which was pretty good, but I tried others of his like Snow White and the Seven Samurai which I just found tedious and unfunny.

My favourite Holt is Faust Among Equals. Has to be. The ongoing battle of wits (or lack thereof) between Lucky George and Kurt Lundqvist rivals anything Terry Pratchett's done. Phrases like 'up above the world so high, like a death ray in the sky' still have me in stitches. The idea that Menelaus didn't actually want Helen of Troy back because of her tendency to go insane with an American Express card and a Liberty catalogue, and that it took 10 years and the concentrated moral pressure of three continents to force him to take her back...totally irreverent.

Djinn Rummy, My Hero and Paint Your Dragon are pretty hysterical, too.