There was so much about Zelazny that was great. I loved his throwaway lines--Among my relations I like sex the best and Eric the least...Tokyo Bay with "condums (sic)...limp, semitransparent testaments to the urge to continue the species but not tonight"...His premature demise was a tragedy in many, many ways. Ken On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:46 AM, Noam Izenberg wrote: > 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) >