[nesfa-reading-group] Jack of Shadows

[M M]

I also will not be able to make it tonight, due to illness. Hope to see you all next time. I'd be happy to discuss the books & story at that time. 

Best regards,
Mike S.  

    On Friday, October 6, 2017 10:44 AM, Chip Hitchcock <cjhi at newcastle2.com> wrote:
 

 I'm quite sure they aren't the same; Jack is a common name for a trickster (cf the youth/knave/knight/not-tied-down-man playing card becoming the Jack). In ...October we meet the man who was (inter alia) Jack the Ripper; the Jack of Shadows is a prankster (in a half-tech world) who does as he pleases, not someone carrying a burden.

/CHip


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Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Jack of Shadows
From: Wes Brodsky <wesbrodsky at comcast.net>
Date: Fri, October 06, 2017 9:44 am
To: NESFA Reading Group <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>

I did not realize that Jack in "...Lonesome October" and "Jack of Shadows"  were the same Jack. In what fraction of Zelazny's novels does Jack appear?Wes


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On Oct 6, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Rebecca DeVendra <rebecca.devendra at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi all,
I won't make it tonight either, it turns out. I'll be home very late due to my son's school activities (he started Kindergarten last month).
I did read Jack of Shadows. I think Wes' assessment is accurate. I'd only add that the plot seemed lazy to me...lots of things happen, and things are solved employing the deus ex machina. I liked Zelazny 's other book we read about Jack (Night in the Lonesome October.) That was brilliant, so Jack of Shadows was a bit of a letdown for me overall.

Kowal's "For Want of a Nail" was very good. I'll talk to all of you about it in November! :) 
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Wes Brodsky <wesbrodsky at comcast.net> wrote:

Hello Everybody;
 
 I will be visiting my sister in NY this weekend, so will not be at the
 reading group Friday or at the special media day Sunday. I did read Jack of
 Shadows. I thought it was an entertaining book, but it seemed a bit too
 "juvenile" for my taste.
 
 Wes
 
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