Phule's Paradise (Phule's Company)

This is the second book of Phule's Company Series. Phule's Company gets a new assignment of guarding a casino. It seems a sweet duty in paradise, but Phule smells a rat at the smirk of the general who hates him.This book describes Phule's Company's full-blown activity in real operation (rather espionage than combat, though). It is much more exciting than Book 1, "Phule's Company". But that is founded on Book 1, so please read Book 1 first.In this book, the characters display their personality and/or ability more freely. Beeker is especially nice; long-winded and cynical, but a priceless adviser for Phule. And Lieutenant Rembrandt, the relatively obscure vice-commander, plays a superb role in this book.This book ends rather cliff-hangingly, but I can't decide whether to read Book 3, "A Phule and His Money". Because it seems that Asprin wouldn't or couldn't write the sequel and that the Book 3 was written by another writer, and its reputation is very very very bad.

Robert Asprin strikes again with this charming missive about what many of us dreamed the military to REALLY be.Although it will become instantly clear to anyone who has ever served in the armed forces that this story is total fiction, it will be perfectly clear to all readers that this is a tongue in cheek glimpse of life in the "Perfect" world.His mix of characters ranges from the totally believable to the out of this world. He shows us what it can be like to work together, while following the leadership of one who believes in himself absolutely, and at the same time developing relationships with beings from different backgrounds... In other words; life in ANY medium to large city in the world!The humor is refreshing and light.His characters are believable without being too far out... Mr. Asprin uses the fact that we do not actually KNOW whether there are other sentient races in the universe, and raises the possibility of "What If...?" for our perusal.I think that if you are in the market for a truly entertaining romp through the make believe world of the Space Legion, then it will be well worth your while to take time out to check out this story.Happy Reading:)

This book is a great, but very different, follow up to "Phule's company". In this book the troops of Omega company get their first real assignment under their new commander - to guard a casino from hostile takover in "paradise".The "guarding" does not turn out to be simple however, as a take over of a casino can take many forms and the troops need to learn new skills and take on new "members".This is a fun book and it continues with the theme's of leadership which was really the heart of the first book. This was actually a quite new idea and I've never read another SF book with this plot (or anything like it before). Here's hoping the quality can continue in the 3rd book.

I read this book, and it was every bit as good as the first one. I read this one over and over too--it's becoming a bit dog-eared. I wish Asprin would write another--this is his best series, and definitely better than the "Myth" books. The worst thing about this series is that there's only two of them--and that's a really bad thing.

I first was introduced to the Phule books and got hooked. But after the second book that was the end. Mr. Asprin, if you read the reviews PLEASE listen to all of our pleas and write more of the Phule books, A faithful reader