alilysong 's review for:

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

4.0

adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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highly entertaining read. apparently this is pretty seminal for the modern fantasy genre and i get it. writing definitely has a distinct flavor - whip fast, gripping, zany and humorous - and zelazny is able to create a really rich fantasy work in a shot glass size of a book. story had a pulpy noir-esque feel to it in the beginning then flows into a rollicking high fantasy adventure. there’s a quippishness to the prose that i found endearing for the most part. some memorable tongue in cheek lines that were unique and beyond stupid that they somehow stood out as brilliant to me (lol).

i snubbed out my cigarette, picked up another, and removed perhaps two hundred pounds from my feet by resting in a brown upholstered chair beside his bookcase.

so we fought on, and i was down to a hundred men. let's be brief. they killed everyone but me

glad i got to sample some of this author's writing and will prolly check out more in this series and some of his standalones in the future.