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68/100 Its been about 15 years since I read this, and it holds up well on a reread. It's still one of my favorite novels, sci-fi or otherwise, of all time. It's not an easy book to read, it has a nonlinear timeline, and the character of Siddhartha is complex and often confusing. He is called the buddha by his followers, but he says he isn't, but he really could be. I can see people putting this down in confusion or frustration, but it is ⬇️

I'm starting a bit late in the month for July's #ClassicLSFBC pick, but I think I should finish it before August.
I've had this book since 1980 and have started and not finished it three times, but I've kept it as Zelazny is one of my favourite authors. Hopefully, fourth time's a charm! 🍀
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His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Listening to Lord of Light for #ClassicLSBC — it‘s the first Zelazny book I‘ve ever read. #audiowalk

I think I'm destined to unfairly compare Zelazny's other work to my personal favourite (Doorways in the Sand) and come out less in favour of these myth/religion based experiments. It's an intriguing exercise to take on a certain writing style that echoes bits of scripture, far away (historically or geographically) or fantastical periods and places but it created a bit of distance from the characters for me. Similar to my high fantasy issue. 1/?

Touché.

Happy Spooky Season! 😈😱

Good news, fellow introverts, new welcome mat design just dropped!

Elevated trash talk.

Smooth-talking Sam and effective intimidation tactics. 😏

*sniff, sniff* Why, yes, I do believe that is the burning of bridges I smell! 🔥🫣

Oh, goody, the fake Buddha reincarnated con man is also a gambler and an adrenaline junkie. This will end well. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert

#littenswanttoknow

Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert

#littenswanttoknow

Finished!! While I appreciate the writing, it wasn‘t my jam.

Trying to power through this one tonight.

Why did I like this? I shouldn‘t have... but I did? Zelazny is better as a short story novelist for sure, he seems terrified of scene descriptors or even coherent plot structures sometimes. But his ideas are fantastic, his dialogue poetic and he isn‘t afraid to blend sci-fi and fantasy into a surreal setting.

Overall, it makes me think of future mythology and I might even read it again, now that it makes more sense.

#lordoflight
#rogerzelazny

“You would like me to strike you, wouldn‘t you, Buddha? It would make feel superior. Unfortunately, I‘m a sadist and will not do it.”
Sam laughed.
“Touché, Death,” he said.

#rogerzelazny #lordoflight

1. Rural Virginia, now in Vienna, West Virginia
2. Just one? Lol yeah right!! Tagged one of many.
3. Nightside Series by Simon R. Green
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The X-Files
6. David Bowie, ELO, The Beatles
7. Green
8. Science-fiction
9. Hell...uh I mean Office Depot
10. Sadly no, my apt doesn't allow pets.

#meetthelittens

Just started the tagged book. Minerva looks so freaking adorable when she‘s sleeping so had to share just because! 😊 #CatsofLitsy #ReadingBuddy #CatwithBook

Day 5 #7Days7Books

My all-time favorite book 😁

Wonderful mash-up of science fiction and fantasy with lovely prose and an interesting story of humans colonising a new planet and presenting themselves as gods ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The entire universe is a revelation," said the monk. "All things change, yet all things remain. Day follows night… each day is different, yet each is day. Much of the world is illusion, yet the forms of that illusion follow a #pattern which is a part of divine reality.” #QuotsyJune19

Okay, last #bookhaul for awhile, I swear. My order from Thriftbooks arrived while I was gone. I‘m pretty picky about damage on used books. I only ordered things with good and above quality assigned to them. The Terror has some electrical tape on it and The Forever War has an obnoxious sticker I couldn‘t easily remove. Overall though, I‘m fairly happy and will probably use them again.

“But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday, those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies! The world was so new and different then, with a menace lurking within every flower and a bomb behind every sunrise. Together we beat a world, you and I, for nothing really wanted us here and everything disputed our coming.“

Lord of Light blew my teenage mind. In the mid-90s, I was a high schooler cashiering in a supermarket that shared a plaza with a used bookstore, which proved devastating to my paychecks. The bookstore and the supermarket are both long gone, but some things remain. (“This year's Hugo Award“ was 1968, by the way.) #scifi #hugoaward #nostalgia

Future humans use technology to pretend to be Hindu Gods.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes
3. The Dark Tower, worst King adaptation ever!!
4. Tom Cruise/Sandra Bullock
5. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

#frideas @SailorMoon

Book: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Author: Erik Larson
Movie: Ladyhawke
Food: Lasagna

#manicmonday #letterL. @JoScho

1960s SF romp based on the Hindu pantheon. I enjoyed it but I don't know if a believer would.

Curry and an SFF book inspired by Hindu myth

A well-worn copy lent to me by a friend. This novel was unique & enthralling; its Indian pantheon mythology (Hindu v Buddhist) mixed with an ingenious #scifi technology was fantastic. Also, I learned that making this into a movie was the real life cover used in the Iranian hostage situation depicted in Argo

I see why this novel is consider a masterwork of #scifi / #fantasy, it moves at a stunning clip but reads truly like a sacred text

“baffling devices” is a glorious phrase #scifi

Friend lent me this #scifi classic

#badcovergoodbook #aprilbookshowers Zelazny was a great fantasy writer mixing fantasy, mythology and science fiction and this one his best. A colony world where the colonists have regressed to a medieval society and the immortal crew have taken the roles of the Indian gods to guide their development. However this book was from the late 60's and the covers were often psychedelic and trippy as evidenced by the above examples.