Dragaera

The pleasures and quandries of getting older

Fri Jan 30 05:46:18 PST 2004

On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Steve Simmons wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:56:38AM -0500, Timothy Nelson wrote:
>> I have never read any of the Amber series, indeed, none of Mr. 
>> Zelazny's
>> work at all. Does that make me an Unwashed Heathen, or Enemy of the 
>> People?
>> *grin*
> It makes you someone with a lot of good reading ahead of you.

Most of the Zelazny I have read was over half my life ago. Aside from 
remembering how much I liked Amber and, specific scenes and events (a 
pack of Cards thrown after someone falling off a cliff, walking and 
forging of Patterns, travelling through Shadow,  the Guns of Avalon 
coming into play), most of it is lost to memory. I'm thinking now of 
paying those volumes another visit. The more I think about it, the more 
those long-ago read books that are the foundations of my SF/Fantasy 
perspective are really pretty dim in recollection. Here's the real 
quandry - do I go back and re-read the things I loved 20 years ago, or 
do I forge ahead into new (or simply new to me) territory? Here's where 
being a slow reader does _not_ pay off.

Grim Neon Zebra     (Noam R. Izenberg)