New Reviews: Ken Grimwood's Replay, CS Friedman's Black Sun Rising, and Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October
August 31, 2002 (8:07 PM) ( link )

ADDED new reviews of Ken Grimwood's Replay, CS Friedman's Black Sun Rising, and Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. All of them pleasant reads.

I'm continuing on with the second book of Friedman's trilogy, although the first one left me a little cold. There are just too many good things said about these books for me to ignore. Also, I think the book suffered from the fact that I read it in brief spurts over the course of about a month--and in between I was interrupted by The Farseer Trilogy, which I read in only three days. Perhaps if I stick carefully to the second book (When True Night Falls, I think), I should be ok.

I'm also about halfway through Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone, on the suggestion of a reader of this web site. (Actually the reader suggested Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time, but I couldn't find that anywhere.) It's fun, eminently readable, and very simple--it's not going to be one of the best books I've ever read but it should be amusing to go through. I'm already halfway through and I've only spent two hours with it! I'm basically just waiting for Elric to get his big sword and start kicking ass.