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Zelazny

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Thu Jul 18 21:01:41 PDT 2002

rone at ennui.org (figmentality) writes:

> Ian sympatico writes:
>   If anyone has not read Zelazny yet I don't know why they are on this list!
> 
> Permit me a little blasphemy, but i finally picked up _Lord of Light_
> some months ago, and while it was good, it certainly didn't seem to be
> "all that".  Certainly not as good as, say, _American Gods_, or more
> topically, _Agyar_.

It seems to me to contain some unfortunate youthful indiscretions,
stuck on around a really staggeringly wonderful book.  I prefer it
very *very* much to _American Gods_, which I found slow and flat.
(Which makes Neil 50/50 for me; _Good Omens_ is also staggeringly
wonderful, in ways that I haven't found either Neil or Terry being
individually.) 

I think I'll just stay out of comparing Steven's work in detail to
Zelazny's; I can't figure out what my win condition would be there. 

> I expect people will recommend me the Amber books, so i'll just say i
> have them on my "library" list.

Not especially.  While 9 Princes was pretty special, after that they
was rather weaker.  And I can really find very little good to say
about the second series (at least the parts I've read).
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