The Chronicles of Amber

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Goldin on September 22, 2010 at 4:25pm

I haven't read the second set, but I remember fondly reading the first set of 5 books when they initially came out...and waiting a year or more between volumes! Aeegh. Worse than waiting between the Star Wars movies.

For anyone who hasn't read them, I remember them as being exciting and insightful, suspenseful, full of humor and fun. I enthusiastically second Sarah's recommendation. Read them!

Permalink Reply by Sarah Walton on September 22, 2010 at 5:30pm

I always like to look at the copyright info at the front of books and I remember thinking as I looked at the Amber copyright dates how agonizing it must have been to wait for these when they were new.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Goldin on September 22, 2010 at 5:42pm

It was agony. And I have to admit to being a torturer myself. There were people who had to wait over 10 years before the concluding 4th book of my Parsina Saga came out. And there are people who've waited over 2 decades for the 3rd Jade Darcy book. (Although in the case of the Jade books, the individual stories are complete in each volume; people just want more.)

Permalink Reply by Dale M. on September 22, 2010 at 8:13pm

Wow ...read those ... about 25 years ago when I was in high school

So I honestly don't remember much, except the fact that I liked them enough that I kept them with the idea that I would reread them one day, and I am not a re-reader ... a vague feeling of the vividness of descriptions of colors and odd otherworldly settings.

I think they are in a box in the attic, I have to go dig them out now

Permalink Reply by Maggie on September 23, 2010 at 5:38am

I read the Chronicles of Amber years and years ago, and can hardly remember anything about the series except that I enjoyed it immensely. I've been waiting for a copy of the big book that has the whole series to turn up at my local used bookstore, or at least the first several books all at the same time (I read too damn fast, I can't just get one at a time... or if I did get one at a time I'd have to let them sit in a box till I completed the set, otherwise I'd read one in a few hours and then go mad with frustration waiting to get the next one). Do these books gain something when looked at from an atheist perspective? When I read them I was still very, very Christian.