Fred Lerner

Outrageous fantasy in which the protagonist nearly gets killed about a hundred times in about a hundred different scrapes, assisted or antagonized by every hero or every villain of every fantastic yarn that ever blew your mind or knocked you out of your chair or set your house on fire or killed your dog and ate your cat. Pack a sword or a bazooka with you whenever you have to get up to eat or use the john. You never know who or what is going to jump you when you leave the safety of your favorite chair. Duck! you sucker! You're going to like this book. You might even read it twice or maybe seven times! Everybody else does. NOBODY doesn't read Silverlock!… (mer)

One for my Year of Nostalgic Rereads, I've not read this since 1981 when I first came across it, and it is so much better to read in the age of the internet. I didn't get most of the references the first time (and still didn't get some even with the aid of other peoples' work), but I've got a few more years behind me and a broader reading experience. I enjoyed the first 300 pages well enough and then hit a wall, which stalled me for almost two months. I finally powered through this past weekend and finished tonight. It's still a great read but I can't give it five stars when I wasn't enthralled the who way through.

Myers wove a wonderful tale, and must have been very well read to do so.… (mer)