Helpful Score: 2
This classic shows why Zelazny's the master. Innovative and fresh, even almost 40 years after its initial publication.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a mistake, I guess. The audience for this one is apparently adolescents who are not easily put off by chivalric cliches strung together with vacuous dialogue. I probably would have enjoyed this at age thirteen, so it's a pity I didn't read it then.
Helpful Score: 2
This book contains two things I usually dislike in a novel; it is written in the first person AND it has a cliffhanger ending. Zelazny made me love it anyway. I originally read them as they were published and had to wait FOREVER for the multiple story lines to work themselves out...
A wonderful stroll down memory lane; and one that has withstood the tests of time.
A wonderful stroll down memory lane; and one that has withstood the tests of time.
Helpful Score: 1
Too goofy for me. Starts out trying to be a hard-boiled detective novel. I thought it was fantasy and never got to the fantasy part. Read like the author didn't know what he was writing and used a ploy like amnesia to figure it out as he went along. Unfortunately, that meant a lot of stilted dialog that made no sense. Couldn't get past page 24.
Helpful Score: 1
The first in the Amber series. I enjoyed this imaginative tale and am eager to read the rest of the series. It's a short book, only 175 pages, but so much happens.