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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 09:24:00 EDT
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		Slight Spoiler Warning

I give TOD a higher rating for one reason. I think Zelazny is trying
to learn how to write about more normal people. A good chunk of his
protagonists are superhuman if mortal. They also talk alike.
(read the Avalon section of amber,The Last Defender of Camelot, This
Immortal (the duel with slings) and any of the world sculptor stories
close together) This has bothered me somewhat over the years.

I think TOD comes in as a partially failed attempt to write about
someone who isn't hypercompetent. The problem is he picked a member
of the Courts of Chaos to do it. Having someone who grew up there
be naive is hard to credit. I think it would have worked better if
Merl had grown up on shadow Earth and was largely ignorant of his
powers over shadow.

What i would really like to know is what home life at the Courts was like.
Calling Dara (in her normal form) "Mother" must have had it's moments.


		chris

		Chris Kostanick
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