Talk:Dark Lord of Derkholm

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:34, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleted themes

I've deleted part of the "themes" section because it's factually inaccurate. It alleges that in "The Year of the Griffin" Mister Chesney manipulates Tripos by holding his wife hostage. While it is true that Chesney was holding Tripos' wife hostage, she was the slave not Tripos. He wasn't being forced to work for Chesney, he was running around free trying to find a way to stop Chesney. Furthermore, this occurs in "Dark Lord of Derkholm", NOT in The Year of the Griffin, which contains on a brief vauge reference to Tripos.
—18:31, 30 March 2011‎ 71.252.138.143

Parody

Among other things I have directly called the novel a parody in the lead and revised the {{infobox book}} Genre(s) from Fantasy, High fantasy to Fantasy novel, parody. I think it cannot be high fantasy if it is set in a parody high fantasy world —in a previous editor's words, with meaning that I have tried to retain in better words.

The cover illustration for the first UK edition (ref 1) suggests to me that the classification parody is no exaggeration. The article would benefit from using that front cover image rather than the first US (also ref 1).

P.S. By the way, US Library of Congress summary is "Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney." The subject classes "Fantasy." and "Magic --Fiction." do not even hint at anything unusual. Contrast the LC catalog entry Barry Trotter and the unauthorized parody. --P64 (talk) 00:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Library of Congress data

The US Library of Congress Catalog LCC entry is one source of our infobox data. These data are substantial, maybe useful, and not in the article as i write.
(quote)
Description: 345 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary: Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney.

Subjects: Fantasy. Magic --Fiction.

(end quote). LC also provides this Publisher description. --P64 (talk) 18:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

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