I started reading this because I finally found (online) the companion volume 2 that I have been looking for since 1992 when I bought this from the Book Club. I remembered it at a somewhat farcical fantasy dungeon quest and I remembered it rightly. It is funny with just the right amount of cheese to make it really fun to read, like orcs with cockney accents and a barbarian that talks exactly like Schwarzennegger (Vere is vhisky. My head hurts like devil. Vhy not let me kill them. An epee? I do not sell such filth, ve have honest manly veapons here). In a nutshell, a few adventurers for hire and their wealthy wizard patron find a magical life sized statue of the last king of the realm in the caverns outside of town and sneak it back in to town to sell. Unfortunately, every little group in the underworld in town gets wind of it and wants to take it for themselves. I couldn't really remember the ending before I started, which was weird, but after I read it, I remembered why. There isn't one. Is just says 'THE END, or at least a shameless cliffhanger', right in the middle of a dinner as the heroes are deciding what to do with their treasure that they manage to keep, with some high placed help. It then morphs in to volume two 'One Quest, old the Dragons' which begins a month or so later, and I have read a few chapters of today. ( )

A humorous look at standard fantasy. A particularly inept and comical band of adventurers manages to find an incredible prize, then has to try and keep everyone else's hands off of it. Funny stuff, though not quite Pratchett quality. ( )