I bought this book sometime in 2007 or so, started reading it but put it down after 40 or so pages. Usually when I don't come back to a book in a few weeks it ends up abandoned but this one I picked up again after a year and couldn't remember what made me put it down. It's one of the wittiest and most twisted fantasy books I've ever read and I loved it. And the story gets even better with the following instalments.