Dawn of Amber

On 1 Jul 2003 23:04:48 -0700, arden.TakeThisOut@brightok.net (Theresa) wrote:
 > I was one of the proofreaders and it's longer and even better.

That's good to hear. I found myself oddly disappointed at the end of Dawn
of Amber. I thought it was too short.


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On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:26:00 -0500, Joel N. Fischoff
<petrukio.TakeThisOut@rcn.com> wrote:

 >That's good to hear. I found myself oddly disappointed at the end of Dawn
 >of Amber. I thought it was too short.

Everyone (especially the publisher) seems to have thought so. But this
was the natural breaking point for the volume.

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On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:43:21 -0400, John Betancourt wrote:

 >Everyone (especially the publisher) seems to have thought so. But this
 >was the natural breaking point for the volume.

Oh, I don't disagree with that. Always leave the readers wanting more is a
good thing.

Except I hate 'wanting more,' if you know what I mean. Once I get into a
story, it's frustrating having to wait for more. But, then again, once you
have everything, it's frustrating that you have everything and that there
isn't going to be more.

What I'm wondering at this point is how you're gonna manage to kill off all
of these new characters.


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That's good to hear. I found myself oddly disappointed at the end of Dawn
of Amber. I thought it was too short.


Joel<<<<


None of Zelazny's Amber novels where very long. What I found missing in DoA was
the entire sense of creation. The vividness of the characters and their
motivations. Why should we care about any of them?

Does anyone else feel the same way? The plot was good, I thought, but I felt
everything could have been fleshed out a little better.
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