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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 1032430" data-attributes="member: 649">I say read the last 5 as well. While they're not as good as the first five in many ways, in others they absolutely rock. I really, really enjoyed learning a lot more of the ultimate "truth" of the universe: you learn just how subjective Corwin was, which is awesome, and as a result it allows you to question just how truthful Merlin is. If you didn't see it that way, try reading them again with that thought in mind. They're much better.Mr. Zelazny told me that "straight through with no editing, letting the story go where it wants to" is, in fact, how he wrote all of his non-collaborative books. He told me this while he was writing A Night in the Lonesome October, so he may have changed after that, but all of his major works were written that way. (He told me these things over several meals while he was the guest of honor at a science fiction convention I ran.)Of course in my opinion if he had gone back and edited more his works would have gone from "freakin' amazing" to "sheer and unequivocal genius," so I wish that he had edited more.To sum: read the first five, spend a few days digesting and basking in the glory of the books, and then read the last five and be amazed in totally different (but still wonderful) ways.</blockquote>