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The Great Book of Amber

av Roger Zelazny

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Serier: Chronicles of Amber (Complete, 1-10)

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Showcases the epic struggle for dimension-wide supremacy. "All ten of Roger Zelzany's classic Amber fantasy novels in one book! Join Corwin, Merlin and the others in wild adventures in the lands of Amber, Earth, and the Courts of Chaos, where the powers of Amber and Chaos constantly battle for supremacy through intrigue and adventure. Revisit Amber, the land of mystery, adventure and romance. Amber, the one true world. All other worlds, including our Earth, are merely Shadows."--Publisher description.… (mer)
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Huge book. Didn't seem to be keeping my interest through the different 'books', so I took a break. A long break.

Started the book October 20, 2008.
  PurplOttr | Dec 1, 2023 |
This large tome contains all 10 volumes of the Amber Chronicles. The series is divided into two major story arcs, each consisting of five books. The first story arc is excellent. Zelazny weaves a compelling story. I found the opening particularly good. The way Zelazny starts the story, it does not even seem like fantasy. Just as you start to wonder whether or not he is ever going to get around it, he brings the fantasy element into the story with a bang.

The second story arc is mediocre. The story contains many good elements, but overall it comes across as a bit too... chaotic. The main character of that story arc seems to get pulled from event to event, each of which generates new threads. I would say less than half of those threads are resolved in the end, and many of those that were resolved were not resolved fully. That said, I have heard that the Zelazny meant to write more but did not have a chance to do so before he died. The dangers of building large, complex stories.

Overall though, it is definitely worth a read. Especially the first half.

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  eri_kars | Jul 10, 2022 |
(This review is for the first book in the collection, Nine Princes in Amber. There's no inducing me to read any more of them, I'm afraid.)
Corwin is suffering from amnesia, which he thinks is a result of a near-fatal car accident, which he also thinks was not exactly an accident at all. As he fakes his way through conversations with one sister and a brother, he slowly puts together a backstory for himself, and it doesn't always feature Earth as the setting.

Hoo boy. This 1970s first-in-a-series fantasy has some issues. Honestly, I think Zelazny couldn't quite decide what he wanted his book to be: it starts out as High Fantasy suffering from memory loss and thinking it's a noir detective novel, and from there the inconsistencies pile up, including a waffling between 'normal' vernacular and the thees and thous of fantafancy speak. It's...grating. It also seems to fall (probably via one of the many plot holes) into the pit of writers who've read and loved Tolkien and decide that, "Hey, I can write a massive world-building epic series, too!" and who, tragically, can't. The plot just seems to be one part tagged onto another tagged onto another, with no real flow or logic between the episodes: "and THEN...and THEN...AND THEN..." with each scene more comically cartoonish than the last. Overall story-arcs matter, folks, and should be more than a flimsy excuse to attach weird worlds and underwater mirror cities and sex with green-haired ladies to the plot. Yoicks. ( )
  scaifea | May 10, 2021 |
I was still new to fantasy, having been a hardcore horror and sci-fi fan, then going through all of Zelazny's other works, when I decided to sit down to these stories.
Seriously, I was impressed with the easy progression into a multi-universe view delineated between ultimate order and ultimate chaos. Gorgeous magic system where you follow mandalas, epic battles, and the almost requisite tripe of amnesia. (Oh, sorry, i meant trope.) I loved the first 5 books better than the second 5, but Merlin's story did have a more epic feel, in my opinion.
It's still hard to find fantasy as good as what he wrote, although I'm still willing to keep looking. :) ( )
  bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |
I wanna be a Prince of Amber! (Suddenly have unrelated Queen song flashes!)
The way I fell in love with Zelazny, especially in the ballsy way he wrote the thing, 'let's just see what happens, shall we?'
Effortless. Stylish. The kind of poetic fantasy that mooshes every world religion and kitchen appliance together and *works!* --What DC and Marvel super Us wish they could achieve! ( )
  Loryndalar | Mar 19, 2020 |
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To Bob and Phyllis Roxman (The Guns of Avalon)
For Judawin and his Demiurge, not to forget Kickaha. (Sign of the Unicorn)
To Jay Haldeman,
of fellowship and artichokes. (The Hand of Oberon)
To Carl Yoke, First Reader—

From Lucetania to Euclid Park,
Sarcobatus Flats to Cygnus X-1—
May you live another ten thousand years.
May your lair be safe from trendeltiles.
May the diminutive deities
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It was starting to end, after what seemed like most of eternity to me. (Nine Princes in Amber)
I stood there on the beach and said, "Good-by Butterfly,"
and the ship slowly turned, then headed out toward deep water. (The Guns of Avalon)
I ignored the questions in the eyes of the groom as I lowered the grisly parcel and turned the horse in for care and maintenance. (Sign of the Unicorn)
A bright flash of insight, to match that peculiar sun... (The Hand of Oberon)
Amber: high and bright atop Kolvir in the middle of the day. (The Courts of Chaos)
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Be careful to not combine this omnibus of all 10 Zelazny Amber novels with other omnibuses of the first 5 novels, or other works.
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Showcases the epic struggle for dimension-wide supremacy. "All ten of Roger Zelzany's classic Amber fantasy novels in one book! Join Corwin, Merlin and the others in wild adventures in the lands of Amber, Earth, and the Courts of Chaos, where the powers of Amber and Chaos constantly battle for supremacy through intrigue and adventure. Revisit Amber, the land of mystery, adventure and romance. Amber, the one true world. All other worlds, including our Earth, are merely Shadows."--Publisher description.

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