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)