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Summary: Terrible, horrible exploitation
Review: The first 20-30 pages feel like Zelanzy...the whole setup is his, the mood, the poetic balance between the characters and the tension. But you can really feel where the master stops and the hack work begins. Zelazny would have never taken the beatiful set of elements that he came up with and throw them all in the toliet. Linskold drops into puns, vulgarity, and trite little rambles. The magic dies, the potential is a pure waste. Maybe she wrote his life story, but did she ever "get" his work? This should be listed as "by J. Lindskold, based on a fragment by Roger Zelazny." To give the man credit for something he would have abhorred is to dishonor one of the finest masters of mood and balance in American SF.
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Summary: A few scraps of Zelazny amid endless Lindskold filler
Review: The first ten pages of this book had me really excited: it was vintage Zelazny, a morally ambiguous powerful-but-long-distracted hero regathering his forces as he discovers that plots have been laid against him in his absence by old rivals ...... but then somewhere within the first 50 pages, Lindskold takes over and Zelazny never comes back for more than a page or two at a time. His terse, powerful prose and striking imagery are replaced by her Ren-Faire fantasy lite: as just one example, she has a small demon (whom Zelazny introduced as a clearly evil being who serves the protagonist solely out of fear and greed) shapechange into a cute Pekingese and decide that he likes it so much that he stays that way for the rest of the story. By halfway through the book, Zelazny's laconic loner demon lord has become ineffectual and self-doubting, and spends most of his time chatting with a coterie of sidekicks and cute pets. (When he's not fighting with animated coathangers or visiting the Dimension of Lost Socks.) If this is your kind of thing, by all means, buy the book. I'd sell you my copy, but I'm afraid it's no longer intact.
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Summary: Felt too light. I hoped to get another "Lord of light".
Review: The stuff about chinese demons and sorcery and sword-fighting was as Zelazny as ever and fun. But no more than fun. the whole book was too light , had no philosophical depth , and I wanted it to be more then just demon adventures. How I longed for the master to leave me just one more of those masterpieces he could conjure , but alas , I did not get what I yearned for. If you read it without expectations it's a fine novel of a god-slaying demon , a powerfull sorcerer , betrail and adventure. but nothing more. That is , if you're able to judge it objectively , NOT with blind admiration to the dead and beloved genius. Great Zelazny , how sorry I am that you will write masterpieces to caress my mind no more.
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Summary: Lord Demon - a great farewell
Review: To know Roger Zelazny is to love him. Here is his final story. The story of a quiet artist trying to find beauty in a modern world. Beauty in his works of glass art, beauty in his limited friends and hidden supernatural worlds. But danger arrives quickly and friends die. His anger wakened, the protagonist sets out on a mystery to find who his hidden enemies are and why they have drawn him out of his peaceful life. The adventure is intriguing, the characters are well drawn. Betrayal is a promise around almost every corner. Zelazny's touch is evident in every page. Comparisons to other works are unavoidable (look at the other reviews for this.) This story shines. And when it ends, you do not want to walk away from the characters. You want more. Fitting final tribute to an author who wrote characters designed to explore the universe and intrigue your heart. Thanks to Jane Lindskold, a brave lady, a fine writer. You may wish to look into Lindskold's 'Athanor' books here on Amazon.
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Summary: World in a bottle: Last call
Review: What a mix of joy and tears this bottle contains! The joy of a new Zelazny book; the pain of knowing there won't be another. It doesn't seem that Lindskold has added a word, yet somehow you can feel an undercurrent of sorrow that doesn't quite fit the mood of this book as it fit the Death-haunted DONNERJACK. That made the funny parts even more welcome. Like some of the demons within it is a sketch of what could have been, but a still a vital entity in itself. This is the last bottle of an old and rare vintage, slightly diluted with a sparkling new springwine but undeniably the real stuff. Sip it slowly.
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Summary: Easy to tell Zelazny didn't finish this himself...
Review: What can I say, I'm a BIG fan of Zelazny - However, this book is NOT really a Roger Zelazny Novel.
The books starts like a classical novel by the master: Kai Wren, a Demon, also called "Lord Demon" because he's the only demon to ever kill a god in a one on one combat, finds that his personal servant has been murdered. The murder investigation causes him to suspect that there is more than meets the eye to this affair, and that the entire Demon-God status quo is in danger.
What I love about this book, and all of Roger Zelazny's book, is that there's a new "mythology" in them. The worlds described in his novels are filled with their own legends, their own creatures and
myths. Nevermind that so many of those are repeated again and again in these novels ("Lord Demon" reminded me a lot of Amber's second series - books 6 to 10).
For example, in "Lord Demon", Kai Wren is also a bottle maker. However, his bottles aren't just bottles: they take centuires to complete and can
have an entire universe contained inside them! If it's all so great, why did I give the book only 3 stars?
Well, the book starts really well, but then it loses all of its momentum, it turns into a definite non Zelazny novel (Dimensions of socks? Dimensions of Coat Hangers? COME ON!!!), and the end is stupid, not to mention boring. I'm sure if Zelazny wrote it from beginning to end it would've been a masterpiece - as well as a
beginning of an awesome new series. But the way it is right now, the book promises a lot, but does not keep its promise.
My final verdict: read it, but expect to be highly disappointed halfway through the book. However if you're a Roger Zelazny fan - read it, you'll probably still love (most of) it.
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Summary: Roger did not write this book....
Review: While Roger Zelazny may have sketched the outline for this novel - he certainly did not write it! Roger never liked the use of vulgarity but Jane Lindskold seems to feel the need to use vulgarity to infuse masculinity into the work---Unfortunately Rogers major strong point was his poetic writing ability and style - it just isnt here and should not be confused with works that truly bear his name...
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Summary: Not his best
Review: While this book is certainly not a bad read, it did disapoint me a bit. I expected really good things from this book since I greatly enjoyed "Donnerjack", (another of the Zelazy, Lindskold "collaborations"), but it didn't deliver. Some of that Zelazy charm was there, but the characters just didn't jump of the pages like they do in "Donnerjack" or in other Zelazy's works. I guess everything can't be as good as the Amber books or "Lord of Light." So I guess I'd say, not bad, but not fantastic.
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Summary: Not his best
Review: While this book is certainly not a bad read, it did disapoint me a bit. I expected really good things from this book since I greatly enjoyed "Donnerjack", (another of the Zelazy, Lindskold "collaborations"), but it didn't deliver. Some of that Zelazy charm was there, but the characters just didn't jump of the pages like they do in "Donnerjack" or in other Zelazy's works. I guess everything can't be as good as the Amber books or "Lord of Light." So I guess I'd say, not bad, but not fantastic.
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Summary: Not his best
Review: While this book is certainly not a bad read, it did disapoint me a bit. I expected really good things from this book since I greatly enjoyed "Donnerjack", (another of the Zelazy, Lindskold "collaborations"), but it didn't deliver. Some of that Zelazy charm was there, but the characters just didn't jump of the pages like they do in "Donnerjack" or in other Zelazy's works. I guess everything can't be as good as the Amber books or "Lord of Light." So I guess I'd say, not bad, but not fantastic.
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