Shannon’s review of Nine Princes in Amber > Likes and Comments
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The first five Amber books are great. The second five, not so much.
Ditto. I really need to re-read Zelazny.
Thanks for linking this to me Shannon! Adding to my to-read list now!
This sounds like one I need to read...
“ We pushed on, slowly, and there was blood on every step for as far back as I could see. There's a moral there, somewhere.” Perhaps... But what exactly the character's sense of this was was neither implied nor articulated. Which, sort of sums up the rest of the book to me. I didn't mind the writing, nor the twisted characters and the sense of this particular one having acquired some nuance of humanisation. The general plot line and storytelling was OK to fine. And I liked the concept of `adding and subtracting' things to get to different lands, and how there were shadow ones, and even that somehow, and in some sense, Amber was the only true one, but there was no depth beyond this, no implication as to the `moral'/`source of interest' of the writer in this (I don't think any implication of Gods). But, I realise that I'm a somewhat demanding reader in terms of my requisites for imagination and depth in books that make it to the `A' grade.
StoryTellerShannon wrote: "You're crazy, Aimee." Don't worry - you aren't the first one to think so :P
Ahhh this has been on my list for yeaars. You're reminding me how much I need to finally get around to reading this.
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The first five Amber books are great. The second five, not so much.
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Ditto. I really need to re-read Zelazny.
Thanks for linking this to me Shannon! Adding to my to-read list now!
This sounds like one I need to read...
“ We pushed on, slowly, and there was blood on every step for as far back as I could see. There's a moral there, somewhere.” Perhaps... But what exactly the character's sense of this was was neither implied nor articulated. Which, sort of sums up the rest of the book to me. I didn't mind the writing, nor the twisted characters and the sense of this particular one having acquired some nuance of humanisation. The general plot line and storytelling was OK to fine. And I liked the concept of `adding and subtracting' things to get to different lands, and how there were shadow ones, and even that somehow, and in some sense, Amber was the only true one, but there was no depth beyond this, no implication as to the `moral'/`source of interest' of the writer in this (I don't think any implication of Gods). But, I realise that I'm a somewhat demanding reader in terms of my requisites for imagination and depth in books that make it to the `A' grade.
StoryTellerShannon wrote: "You're crazy, Aimee." Don't worry - you aren't the first one to think so :P
Ahhh this has been on my list for yeaars. You're reminding me how much I need to finally get around to reading this.
