<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3628" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3659">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. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3722"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3659"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3659">Best regards,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3659"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507324421237_3659">Mike S. </span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, October 6, 2017 10:44 AM, Chip Hitchcock <cjhi@newcastle2.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6995410911"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"></span><div>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.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>/CHip<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>
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Date: Fri, October 06, 2017 9:44 am<br clear="none">
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<div>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?</div><div id="yiv6995410911AppleMailSignature">Wes</div><div id="yiv6995410911AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6995410911AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from Wes' mobile.<div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv6995410911yqt3735100875" id="yiv6995410911yqt02934"><div><br clear="none">On Oct 6, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Rebecca DeVendra <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rebecca.devendra@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rebecca.devendra@gmail.com">rebecca.devendra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left:blue 2px solid;margin-left:8px;padding-left:8px;"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>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).</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Kowal's "For Want of a Nail" was very good. I'll talk to all of you about it in November! :) </div></div><div class="yiv6995410911gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv6995410911gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Wes Brodsky <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wesbrodsky@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:wesbrodsky@comcast.net">wesbrodsky@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv6995410911gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello Everybody;<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> I will be visiting my sister in NY this weekend, so will not be at the<br clear="none"> reading group Friday or at the special media day Sunday. I did read Jack of<br clear="none"> Shadows. I thought it was an entertaining book, but it seemed a bit too<br clear="none"> "juvenile" for my taste.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Wes<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> ______________________________ _________________<br clear="none"> reading-group mailing list<br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br clear="none"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/ mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br clear="none"> </blockquote></div><br clear="none"><br clear="all"><div><br clear="none"></div>-- <br clear="none"><div class="yiv6995410911gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><pre><font size="4">Becky DeVendra</font><font size="2" color="#0000ee"><u>
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