[nesfa-reading-group] Jack of Shadows

[Louis Galvez III]

I won’t be there tonight. I’m out of state today. 

Jack of Shadows seemed more like a bunch of things than happened than a story. I didn’t like Jack, or many of the other characters. 

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> On Oct 6, 2017, at 5:16 PM, M M via reading-group <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org> wrote:
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> 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.
> 
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> On Friday, October 6, 2017 10:44 AM, Chip Hitchcock <cjhi at newcastle2.com> wrote:
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> 
> 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.
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> /CHip
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> -------- Original Message --------
> 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>
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> 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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> Sent from Wes' mobile.
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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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