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dustydigger
Posted 2014-02-27 5:43 AM (#6607 - in reply to #6198)
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Location: UK		Oops,goy far behind in tracking my reading for the 50 book challenge.Here are the books I have been reading.
7. Alan Garner - Boneland.The adult novel is the finishing book of the Alderley Edge series which started with the two children's books Weirdstone of Brisingamen and Moon of Gomrath,a mere 50 years ago!. It was interesting,,often poignant but not an easy read as it was two stories set millenia apart intertwined,so it took some time to get the hang of it..Still mulling over my reactions to it.
8. Roger Zelazny - This Immortal. Ah,the joys of early Zelazny,the pyrotechnics of style,the humour,the prodigal tossing out of ideas that could have furnished a whole series for another author,the sheer zest of it all.Here we have a post nuclear war Earth,where the continents are too hot to live on,mutated humans can look like beasts of ancient mythology,and thee owners of earth are blueskinned aaliens from Vega. Oh,and the hero seems to be immortal,since for centuries he has looked 30 years old.A synopsis would sound crazy,but in short he is taking a Vegan around the ancient glories of Egypt ,Greece and Rome. Only Zelazny would have the chutzpah to toss in higgledy piggledy a Haitian Voodoo ceremony,an albino vampire,a hitman called Hasan(yes,Hasan the Assassin) ,satyrs in the woods,cannabalistic humans and a huge metal dog!.Zelazny carries it all off with verve and confidence and its all an enjoyable romp.Developed from a novella called And Call Me Conrad,this book shared the Hugo Award with Frank Herbert's Dune.Not so shabby for your first novel. I loved this book,with its mythology,but then I am a dyed in the wool Zelazny faan since I read Nine Princes in Amber and Lord of light well over 40 years ago.



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