I can never find anyone who knows the name or author of this series...
A young man gets transported from reality into a "fantasy" world. Through a series of adventures, he finds that he can perform magic with music. He ends up playing a fantasy type of guitar and singing '80's tunes to conjure up stuff... I think I remember him singing a Beach Boys song to get a boat in one case. I thought they were great !!!
Of course, I was kinda young at the time...
and drunk...
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No insult meant but ummm glad I missed ithttp://www.tgeweb.com/ironworks/cgi-...iles/smile.gif

Sorry, rings no bells....

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I don't know if it the same but I read a series by Christopher Stasheff that started with Her Majesty's Wizard, he could do magic with phrases like lyrics and Shakespeare... Is that it?

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I don't remember the title but I do remember reading something like that. L.E Modesitt has a series out now about musical magic the influence is more classical than 80's though I'm afraid.
Also remember reading something similar about a computer programmer who goes to another world and finds that his skills are magical.


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"if you whistle while you’re pissing, you have two minds where one is quite sufficient.
If you have two minds, you are at war with yourself" (Illuminatus. 405).

I remember something similar called the woods out back and its sequel the dragons dagger.

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[This message has been edited by caleb (edited 05-02-2001).]

Maybe it's one of the "Gor" books?!

It might be one of the Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever books but I doubt it.

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Balgin, the Dwarf

No, No
But thanks for trying
more info:

He is befriended by a giant otter who is a rouge-type character. They story is very tongue-in-cheek.



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You art talking about the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster. I remember reading all them a long time ago. There are about 5 or 6 books in the series.

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THANK YOU ...
now, are they worth reading again or not?



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Thinking back, I remember that I mostly enjoyed them. They are definitely on the lighter, humourous, side of fantasy. The main character is basically a rock and roll hippie type who smokes some grass and ends up in this fantasy land with walking, talking animals in abundance. But these are not your cutesy childrens book animals. He learns that he can do magic by playing a music instrument (forgot the name). But the only thing he knows how to play is bad rock and roll tunes. This leads to his spells doing weird and unpredictable things.

I started to get bored with them after the 3rd or so book. Although the stories were interesting, the character's, and the jokes, started to get stale. I made it through to the last book about the original character (Jon-Tom or something like that). There was a another book put out called "Son of Spellsinger" which I never got around to reading. It's on my "one of these days" list.

Hope this helps, BTW this is all pulled from long term memory, so beware of errors and omissions.