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Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Content warning book 5 ending spoilers
Man™ I don't know what to say. The end of this book feels like I was hit with a ton of bricks. We'll see what awaits in book 6.
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Content warning Book 5
Goodbye Hugi, you were never useful.
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Content warning book 5
We are AT HE FUCKING EDGE OF OF THE MULTIVERSE babehhhhhhh
I didn't know I needed to see what the END OF REALITY looks like but I welcome it.
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Content warning Book 4
While we're at it I want to know of the adventures of Corwin:s horse I want to see all the stuff he's seen after somehow ginishing the pattern.
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Content warning book 5 spoilers
ARE YOU KIDDING ME DARA HAS CORWIN'S CHILD IN SHADOW!? OH MMY FUCKING GOD I KNEW WE WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE CORWIN'S CHILD BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE DARA'S HELP HEEEEEELP
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
It would be si funny if all of book 5 was written like
Thing: short description.
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Wrong button sorry
Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. …
Goodreads didn't import my books for some reason so here we are, back at the spinning wheel
I read a short story before this one, one about a sculpture that contained a gem, and all the hints were basically withheld from the reader. The solution literally came down from the skies. I was very disappointed.
After reading this one, I cared more about the backstory of the criminal than anything regarding Sherlock Holmes. I may be almost at the end (chapter 5 of the second part), but this is as far as I am going.
I have become more invested in the story of the criminal than in Sherlock Holmes himself. I had stopped reading this book a few months ago, but I cane back just to read more about him.
This is actually a compilation that came bundled with the PocketBook, but I don't know where it was taken from or how it was assembled, so I will just add ghe books one by one.
And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do, For his …
Content warning chapter 30
THEY ARE NOW GIVING BIRTH AND AYOMIDE HASNNO FUCKING CLUE I LOVE HER
In post-apocalyptic Colorado, a state now covered in sand, one family struggles to survive and stay united after the father …
Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he …
Content warning Spoilers for a good bunch of the book
As someone who read an independent translation of the Arabian nights many years ago, I was pleasantly surprised when it dawned on me that this book takes the same base concept as the way to structure everything.
A big part of this book reads like a soap opera, exploring how two separate families interact and evolve over the course of several generations. One of the main reveals is that all of the families that crop up are one and the same (sometimes connected by marriage or by two characters being lovers). This is eventually what kick-starts the events happening in the present. It also means that you will reach a point in the final quarter of the book where it is difficult to visualise how different people are related. Hence the title.
Now, I know that describing this book as a soap opera is glossing over the complex political issues that are happening in the background. The reason why I am glossing over them is twofold: on the one hand, they read more like an external influence that further pushes the characters into making the decisions they make. On the other, I am unfortunately too far removed from the context of 20th century Tanzania for it to really have left a significant mark on me.
What did actually left a mark on me was the treatment of black Muslims (or, to use their own words, blackamoors) in the present. Both seeing how Omar and Latif were being mocked at for being black and the beatiful descriptions provided by Omar, which are so unavoidably tied to his identity as a Muslim.
All in all, a solid 4 stars. Not a book that has influenced the way I see writing, but a book I would wholeheartedly recommend.
