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    <body><![CDATA[While still compelling, it is a little bit of a let down from the first book.  The noir element is lost entirely, sci-fi is minimal and this become merely a fun fantasy story.  That's fine, I guess.  The writing is actually still quite good, but I felt some of what made the first book special is now...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42237136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a perfect choice for my mood- quick, fairly short, and lots of adventure.<br/><br/>The Guns of Avalon picks up where Nine Princes in Amber left off. Corwin is determined to fight for the throne of Amber. He has some supplies he needs to collect which takes him to Avalon. While there, he mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76038115">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>German edition - German review:<br/><br/>Die Intrigen um Amber gehen weiter. Die erste Hälfte des Buches schildert die Flucht Corwin von Ambers durch die Schatten mit dem Ziel einer Welt namens Avalon. Auf seinem Weg trifft Corwin Freunde und Feinde aus seiner lang zurückliegenden Vergange...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69413088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Corwin again must for alliances and begin again his quest to take the throne from Eric.  He must also fight the dark road to Chaos that he apparently opened with his curse just before his eyes were burnt out.  Turns out that he doesn't have to fight for the throne at all, he just ends up needing to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49696513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Amber Chronicles continue with Guns of Avalon.  Our intrepid hero escapes from his prison cell and regenerates his vision.  Zelazny takes a bit more time to pace things out this time but the book is still chock full of action and narrow escapes.  Characters are still a bit two dimentional but at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69617442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite sure what to say about this bit of pulp fantasy from Roger Zelanzy. It's the second in the &quot;Amber&quot; series, the first of which I reviewed here. To recap a bit, there's this guy named Corwin and he's one of the princes of the city of Amber, which is a kind of Platonic ideal city th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28989025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll start this today at lunch.  It's a re-read, but a wonderful one.  I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92121.Nine_Princes_in_Amber_Amber_Chronicles_1_" title="Nine Princes in Amber (Amber Chronicles, #1) by Roger Zelazny">Nine Princes in Amber</a> for the Zelazny group &amp; I can't just stop reading the series now, even if I do know how it turns out.<br/><br/>It was well worth the re-read.  Even knowing basically what happens, it's still a great...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10673650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first of the Avalon books I ever read, and it was many years before I managed to come upon the other volumes of the first Chronicles. The almost poetic nature of this book still, to me, makes it the best of these novels save perhaps <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92121.Nine_Princes_in_Amber_Chronicles_of_Amber_1_" title="Nine Princes in Amber (Chronicles of Amber 1) by Roger Zelazny">Nine Princes in Amber</a>. In the first novel Corwin is st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52669401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While it lacks that freshness and imagination that made the first book so good, this still serves as a solid sequel. Being a sequel, it could never replicate that sense of wonder and discovery of the first book, so I can't hold it against it too much. It also has much more of a cliffhanger than the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39224756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My review of the first book in Zelazny's Amber series was rather harsh. I gave <em>Nine Princes in Amber</em> two stars and concluded that the writing was distracting and the main character was hard to like -- and that I would only reluctantly give the next book in the series a try.<br/><br/>I am glad I di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8373862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first edition od this book I read. The Amber series...one of fantasy's best.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 2 of Amber Series<br/>This is a reread after about 30 years.<br/>15.3 Division]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A vast improvement over &quot;Nine Princes in Amber.&quot;  I still want to punch Corwin in the face, but the urge is less strong now that we actually see him taking responsibility for his actions.  I understand his motivations for seeing to unseat Eric, however retconned they may feel.  <br/><br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12560813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great book in the series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second in the Amber series.  After Corwin loses the crown, and is blinded and imprisoned in the dungeons, he curses the king.  His curse becomes a physical manifestation that threatens the very world we seeks to rule.  He must recapture the crown and defend his world.  I liked this one better than t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35750638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The edginess of the first book seems gone already by book two, but somehow it doesn't suffer too much.  This book also feels more like a chapter of the larger story than a stand-alone book, but that's not a problem if you're reading them all anyway.  If you like fast-paced, action-packed science fic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12015296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest, I read all of the first Amber Series novels in rapid succession so to me it's all one continuous story. I rate them all pretty-much the same, with the exception of the first one, which got the series off to an awesome start so I gave it 5 stars. I loved all the books and couldn't put a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16665137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book in the Chronicles of Amber, The Guns of Avalon lacks the wit or humor of Nine Princes in Amber.  Dialogue isn't as catchy, and descriptions of events and situations aren't as interesting. The story itself, though, is interesting -- it just lacks some of the charm of Nine Princes in A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9078275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seems very based in reality for a fantasy series, then it surprises you a few books in.  Different pacing than any other fantasy book I've read before, too.]]></body>
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