On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, M J wrote:
@> >>"M J" wrote on Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:30:14 -0500
@> >>
@> >>... Dude, there's Corwin, and then there's his really annoying son
@> >> Merlin. No other POVs as far as I know. (And trust me, by the
@> >> middle of the Merlin chronicles, I would've been dying for a POV
@> >> from even Flora.)
@>
@> >Sorry, had to reply to this one,
@> >In the last five Amber short stories Zelazny wrote just before he
@> >died, the POV was from several people, Corwin, Merlin, Merlin's gold
@> >chain (can't remember it's name), and Luke (Brand's son).
@>
@> The gold chain was Frakir. She made me go OO.
@>
@> Do they really count, though? It's still Merlin telling the story;
@> they're just telling a story to _him_.
Can't remember if this has come up yet, but in the first series, Random is
an authentic PoV character for an entire chapter ("What I Did on my
Summer Vacation to Evil Shadows Filled with Flying Rocks").
If it were just Corwin saying "Yeah, Random told me this long story about
rocks. There was a dragon in it.", you'd have a point. That's not the way
it happens, though; it's told directly in his voice. The short stories
mentioned above work in essentially the same way. So, yes, you're getting
Corwin or Merlin's version of some story somebody told him, but on the
other hand you're also getting someone's version of a story Corwin or
Merlin told him, and we're presumably not assuming that the series has
zero PoV characters, so...