Nine Princes In Amber by Roger Zelazny

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Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself.

That's as good as it gets. The blurb sounded appealing and the reviews of The Amber Chronicles on Amazon are excellent. If you add to this the fact that the series comes bearing the branding that befits a "Fantasy Masterwork" the everything was in place to read books of the highest quality by an author at the top of his game.

Unfortunately, this is either the worst or the second worst fantasy book that I have ever read. Only Robert Jordan's prequel to The Wheels of Time series compares. A New Spring and Nine Princes of Amber are the only books that I have given up on before completing. I normally like to give the book until the end until making a judgment but this is a steaming pile of horse dung. I wouldn't even call it fantasy as it probably belongs more within the Sci-Fi realm.

Why is this book so bad? Firstly, Roger Zelazny's writing is poor, grammar is appalling and he can not even put a decent sentence together. The characters are even worse, no depth, unsympathetic, one-dimensional at best. I didn't care about the story, I didn't care about the characters.

Avoid these books at all cost, there are just too many excellent authors out there to waste your time on this drivel. I read that this was a timeless classic, that is, please mind my French, bollocks.

Chronicles of Amber: "Nine Princes in Amber", "The Guns of Avalon", "Sign of the Unicorn", "The Hand of Oberon", "The Courts of Chaos" (Fantasy Masterworks) (Amazon.co.uk)

Author: Roger Zelazny
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 784
Publication date: 2000-06-15
Publisher: Gollancz

RRP: £9.99
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Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself, shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of the royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion, the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon intensifying the internal conflict.
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The Chronicles of Amber: "Nine Princes in Amber", "The Guns of Avalon", "Sign of the Unicorn", "The Hand of Oberon", "The Courts of Chaos" (Fantasy Masterworks) (Amazon.co.uk)

Author: Roger Zelazny
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 784
Publication date: 2000-06-15
Publisher: Gollancz

RRP: $20.65
Lowest new price: $11.27
Lowest used price: $6.07

Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself -- Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs. In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak car accident; amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne -- and he is in deadly peril . . . The five books, Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon and The Courts of Chaos, together make up The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny's finest work of fantasy and an undisputed classic of the genre.
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