We have similar tastes in SF and Fantasy! If you like Poul Anderson check out High Crusade! I’m a huge Robert Silverberg fan…or AgBerg (get it? Ag is the symbol for silver?😂). His more literary stuff is great but still gets lumped in the SF genre stacks. My faves are Gilgamesh the King and The Book of Skulls, with an honorable mention to Downward to Earth.
On Amber, the first five books I read as they came out…it was more than a decade later when the next series came out. You’re right, Guns of Avalon was the best and the series kind of went downhill from there though I liked the end of the first series (Random becoming king was a great choice). The whole second series was like you said, meh. We ought to compare what we have and haven’t read; I’m sure I’ll get some good reads out of that!
This is a real reading list. Warlock has been in my tbr for a while. If you get another western itch, I've been reading Fool's Crow and it is quite good. Written from the perspective of the Blackfeet Indians. Some impressive use of magical realism too.
Great list. I met Gene Wolfe when he gave a talk at the Chicago Public Library and got my copies of the Book of the New Sun autographed. I want to re-read The Fifth Head of Cerberus, which I read 40 or so years ago with no comprehension at all. Molloy is one I want to get to. Thomas Ligotti spoke very highly of the Beckett trilogy.
DNF’d ? Cant find a definition...
I got a ways into amber but then after about the 5th book it just beacem utter rubbish...
Better is The World of Tiers ! Way more whackdoodle but actualy readable...
We have similar tastes in SF and Fantasy! If you like Poul Anderson check out High Crusade! I’m a huge Robert Silverberg fan…or AgBerg (get it? Ag is the symbol for silver?😂). His more literary stuff is great but still gets lumped in the SF genre stacks. My faves are Gilgamesh the King and The Book of Skulls, with an honorable mention to Downward to Earth.
On Amber, the first five books I read as they came out…it was more than a decade later when the next series came out. You’re right, Guns of Avalon was the best and the series kind of went downhill from there though I liked the end of the first series (Random becoming king was a great choice). The whole second series was like you said, meh. We ought to compare what we have and haven’t read; I’m sure I’ll get some good reads out of that!
Hey, you read any Haldeman?
This is a real reading list. Warlock has been in my tbr for a while. If you get another western itch, I've been reading Fool's Crow and it is quite good. Written from the perspective of the Blackfeet Indians. Some impressive use of magical realism too.
Great list. I met Gene Wolfe when he gave a talk at the Chicago Public Library and got my copies of the Book of the New Sun autographed. I want to re-read The Fifth Head of Cerberus, which I read 40 or so years ago with no comprehension at all. Molloy is one I want to get to. Thomas Ligotti spoke very highly of the Beckett trilogy.
My favorite Silverberg book!