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). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info