Most recently I finished "Creatures of Light and Darkness" by Roger
Zelazny. I had a copy of this on my shelves for a while because Drew
recommended it, I think, back when we were living together at Wilkins.
It was a good fast read, with the whole novel being in the present
tense contributing to the pacing and also the sense of it being an
oral telling of very poetic, timeless myth. I had the urge to create a
graph over the course of the book, with a measure for each character
describing how much of a badass they were known to be at that moment.
Discover they're immortal? bubble gets bigger. Discover they can
travel through time? bigger. Discover they are in fact their own
grandfather? BIGGER. Win a battle of the mighty against your brother
by tripping him out, turning his eyebrows into electric eels and his
will into slimy puddles of fish piss? WE HAVE A WINNER!
--k2
I remember reading that when I was laid up at Rosewood after my shoulder surgery... I believe after the first few pages I even set aside the latest Harry Potter for it. Thanks Drew!
--fraggle
I like Zelazny's work generally, he (and I guess me) is big into
carrying through the assumptions of various religions and building
worlds based on them. Either good or just plain strange.
--drew
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I read this book. I found it in Dad's library after reading Lord of Light (where is that one?) I started reading it when I was suuuuuper hung over on a plane to utah senior year. The first chapter was very scary. Then things started to make sense. And then Joe read it, and he had a similar experience. I like Hindu-God-Science. What a good book!
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