Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: > At 11:01 PM 7/18/2002 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > > 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). > > For me, I'd say the first two--9 Princes and Guns. Other than that > nitpick, I agree. On consideration I might go with that. The curve may be steeper after _guns_ than before. I will also say that when I finally sat down and read them all together, I found the later ones better than I remembered them from initial readings when they were new, which was pleasant. (There's room to be *considerably* less good than 9 Princes and still be pretty good, after all.) -- 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