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From: sher@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: SZKB's work
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 04:15:40 EDT
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From: sher

I have recently (in the past few months) read Yendi, Jhereg (sp?), and
To Reign in Hell.  My micro review of SZKB's writing is 
Steven Brust writes like Larry Niven trying to write like Roger
Zelazney (sp?), and succeeding.  To expand on this the plot structure
seems to be reminiscent of Larry Niven's work but the sentence
structure reminds me of Roger Zelazny.  Considering them indepently of
sf-context they are all good read's though TRiH is not as good as the
others (Trying to write about simple minded (in the sense that their
minds are not complicated) characters results in simplistic
characters).  In other words TRiH attempts the impossible and almost
(but not quite) gets away with it.  

From the barely literate ramblings of 
David Sher
sher@rochester
seismo!rochester!sher