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| Original Title: | Jack of Shadows |
| ISBN: | 0451159764 (ISBN13: 9780451159762) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1972), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1972) |
Roger Zelazny
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 236 pages Rating: 4 | 5789 Users | 283 Reviews
Details Of Books Jack of Shadows
| Title | : | Jack of Shadows |
| Author | : | Roger Zelazny |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 236 pages |
| Published | : | May 2nd 1989 by Signet (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Speculative Fiction. Magic. Adventure |
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For the plot description I shamelessly plagiarized the first two and a half sentences of the official book description. The Earth no longer rotates. Science rules the dayside of the globe. Magic rules the World of Night. Jack of Shadows was a thief whose magic was strongly connected with shadows. In other words, he could not do any magic in complete absence of them. He was caught in the beginning of the book and executed. Being a supernatural being he had several lives, just like an ordinary cat.
He came back and sought revenge.
I am a big fan of Zelazny. I keep saying that even his minor efforts deserve 3 stars. This looks like one of them. The beginning was quite good; it slowed down by about one third in the book, but still remain decent until the second half. At that point I had to ask myself, "Who the heck wrote this part and why did the Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy let him/her destroy his work???" The very end became quite good - probably the best part, but at that time it was way too late.
Add to this the fact that during the bad part of the book I stopped caring about Jack and his fate and you will understand why I gave one of my all-time favorite science fiction writers only 3 stars this time. It is still not a waste of time by any means, but please if you are not familiar with Zelazny do not start your acquaintance with him with this novel. It has excellent ideas, but the execution really lacked.
At this point I have to recycle the first image I used here to show my face when I finished this novel:
Boy, was I grumpy!Rating Of Books Jack of Shadows
Ratings: 4 From 5789 Users | 283 ReviewsAssessment Of Books Jack of Shadows
The setting is evocative and fantastic, the magic in it awe-inspiring, the prose terse but extremely effective... but I would've liked to see more of the light side of the world, and Jack himself was an arse and I never could relate to him.Storyline: 3/5Characters: 2/5Writing Style: 2/5World: 3/5I always look forward to reading Zelazny. I never seem to regret finishing his stories even though I rarely enjoy them all the way through. He's one of the more creative and versatile fantasy/sc fi writers I've come across, and this picaresque fantasy was everything I expected it to be. "Slapdash" carries with it the connotation of carelessness but more specifically refers to the haphazard character of a work. I'm convinced that slapdash
What a terrific read of science and magic. Roger Zelazny is the supreme master at mixing the two together. Roger Zelazny truly is fantastic at making someone despicable actually likeable. The Hero, more likely the anti-hero (it is up to you to choose) of the story, Jack is a character most would think to dislike, but simply for Zelazny work of masterful science/fantasy fiction, and in the first few chapters and especially at the end he makes you end up rooting for Jack, the Jack of Shadows! This
Jack of Shadows, or Shadowjack, is a wizard and rogue, the best thief of his age. His world doesn't rotate. Instead, the light side is ruled by science and the dark side by magic. Daysiders have souls, Darksiders are eternally reborn in the Dung Pits of Glyve. Jack gets decapitated in the opening chapter and seeks revenge upon waking in the aforementioned Dung Pits. On the way to his goal, he gets imprisioned by an old enemy, spends time as a professor at a university on the Dayside, and finds
2Aug2016 - currently rereading with the Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy group here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...This was one of the first Zelazny books I read & it's still fantastic. The characters aren't complex, but I think this is done on purpose. The only ones that much time is spent on are Dark Siders who have no soul. They're very uncomplicated, driven simply by desire, pride, & power. Jack personifies most & his thoughts are well documented. I thought his lame attempts at
No, this isnt the Earth you are familiar with. Yes, humans still are the dominant species. Yes, the birds and animals are present. But, this planet shows only one face continually to the Sun. One side always in bright light and the other in perpetual night, which might have some interesting effects on evolution. Because this is Zelazny, we get to know a bit of why one side doesnt have just boiling rock and the other side a frozen environment where nothing moves. This world is protected by a
Franky, I am quite shocked that Roger Zelazny was capable of such thoroughly craptastic writing.
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