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To be honest, I had read so much hype about the book before reading it, that, paradoxically, I ended up not liking Lord of Light that much (it does have a very
by GFischer 12y ago
To be honest, I had read so much hype about the book before reading it, that, paradoxically, I ended up not liking Lord of Light that much (it does have a very interesting premise).
On the other hand, I basically stumbled on the Chronicles of Amber - I bought the huge omnibus book because it was good words-per-dollar value, back when e-books didn't exist and I needed my books to last me my whole holidays!!
- egypturnash 12y agoI didn't like LoL much the first time I read it. Admittedly I was also a teenager at the time. When I came back to it much later, I was more willing to engage with Zelazny's desire to play with language. I suspect I'd also had various life experiences the book speaks to; in some respects it was very much one of those 'you'll understand this when you're older' things for me. I enjoyed the hell out of the Amber books the first time around, though!
- dllthomas 12y agoThat's not too far from my own experience. I didn't get more than a quarter of the way into it my first two attempts.
- egypturnash 12y agoOh wait crap actually I am thinking about Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness. Those two titles occupy the same hash bucket in my brain.
- dllthomas 12y agoAh, yeah, I'm presently working on that one.