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Brust revisited.

post #1 of 6
8/8/00 at 5:51pm
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Okay, so I just went back and read my superb review of his first book Jhereg.
http://www.chud.com/ideas/bookreviews5.php3

But I gotta keep asking, does anyone else love these? Did I convince any of you to read them? If so are you happy? Fulfilled?

Does it make you wanna be a hitman?

C'Mon, folks, be literati for a while!
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post #2 of 6
8/9/00 at 10:47am
They're ok.

I've read three or four of them. Not classics in my mind. Most of the other stuff you've recommended has been better.

I've got a few more yet to read at the house, I'll check 'em out when I finish the Vachss book I'm reading now.
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post #3 of 6
8/9/00 at 11:43am
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In my opinion, it is the voice of these books, and of course his narrator Vlad, that makes these classics. It takes fantasy in a different direction, and the makeup of the political structure as well as the race relations just kicks ass.

And minor characters, like Kragar. Hard to beat. But, well, you're Italian, so I can't account for your tastes.

Heh.


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post #4 of 6
8/9/00 at 1:51pm
that whole series is a thinly veiled analogy for my people anyway.

The easterners that come to the western world, and have two choices

a. life of crime
b. poverty

the Jhereg house is totally mafia.

And I never said the series was bad, or even that Brust was a bad write, it's just that something about the books just never grabbed me, ya know.

BTW, have you read Brust's "Reign in Hell" or something like that? It's about the war in Heaven when Lucifer and 1/3 od the Angels were cast out?
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post #5 of 6
8/9/00 at 11:20pm
To Reign In Hell. It impressed Zelazny so much, he requested to do the introduction.

Also, check out his Phoenix Guards books. Great Pastiches on Alexander Dumas.
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post #6 of 6
8/10/00 at 10:46am
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To Reign in Hell is great, and Zelazny was always Brust's biggest hero (his son is named Corwin, Zelazny's hero from the Amber Chronicles).

And the Phoenix Guards books are unbelievably Dumas, right down to the inflection and the tone of the characters.

Beautiful.

Agyar is another one of his that I love. But is a modern-day gothic piece.
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