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Re: Merry Christmas, Zelazny sucks. by Zseni 12/26/2006, 1:52pm PST
stoorat wrote:

Sometimes a good yarn is simply a good yarn. The Amber series falls into that category, as does the Changling and Dilvish the Damned books. I also loved Lord Demon. Just fun. I know that the whole mortification of the flesh thing is trendy in literary circles, but it's actually okay to enjoy a book on its own terms sometimes, Vag. You're right about Thieve's World though. And, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit, for years I've thought of the OMM crew as the Stepsons and the POE crew as Tempus' other, more boring and less faggy regiment.

Yeah, like I said, I'm a 'tard.


Bullshit! Liking books for non-yarn-related reasons carries no judgmental charge. I already KNOW the dashing young man or lovely young lady or band of friends will have adventures and learn about himself or herself or themselves and face unforeseen challenges. That's all the story is. I can like it for being laced with pungent details, or for saying a lot of interesting things about the interesting author, but I'm not going pretend my enjoyment is contingent on plot of the story.

And why would you want it to be? What's your fuckin damage, Heather?
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