<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><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></div><div><br></div><div>/CHip<br><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Jack of Shadows<br>
From: Wes Brodsky <<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@comcast.net">wesbrodsky@comcast.net</a>><br>
Date: Fri, October 06, 2017 9:44 am<br>
To: NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
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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="AppleMailSignature">Wes</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br>Sent from Wes' mobile.<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Oct 6, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Rebecca DeVendra <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:rebecca.devendra@gmail.com">rebecca.devendra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: blue 2px solid; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></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></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><br>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="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Wes Brodsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@comcast.net" target="_blank">wesbrodsky@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Everybody;<br> <br> I will be visiting my sister in NY this weekend, so will not be at the<br> reading group Friday or at the special media day Sunday. I did read Jack of<br> Shadows. I thought it was an entertaining book, but it seemed a bit too<br> "juvenile" for my taste.<br> <br> Wes<br> <br> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> reading-group mailing list<br> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br> <a href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><pre cols="72"><font size="4">Becky DeVendra</font><font size="2" color="#0000ee"><u>
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