On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:17:50 -0700, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: >> I find This Immortal pleasant but light, whereas Dune is a major >> classic. > > Call me a Philistine. If I reduced Dune to one word, it wouldn't be > "classic" it would be "ponderous". I've never understood the fuss about > it > and I couldn't even make myself read half of the first sequel before I > just > skipped to the last chapter then put it away forever. With apologies to > the > Herbert fans, my personal opinion is that Dune and its offspring have a > lot > more in common with Star Wars-style space opera than it does with most > good science fiction. Different strokes, I guess. I'm a Herbert fan. I though _Under Pressure_ and _The Dosadi Experiment_ were wonderful books. Certainly I liked them much better than I liked _Dune_. > I wouldn't neccesarily call any particular Zelazny classic either (though > Lord of Light comes close). However, I've enjoyed pretty much every > Zelazny > story I've read. Crossroads was the only one that left me with the "why > did I bother" feeling. I missed that one. Is it one of the quick collaberations that he did after he knew he was dying and did whatever he could to make sure his family had money? Several of those were unreadable - at least for someone such as myself who holds Zelazny's writing in such high regard. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/