Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (The Four Lords of the Diamond, book 1) by Jack Chalker

[james_davis_nicoll]

Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (The Four Lords of the Diamond, book 1) by Jack Chalker

Comments

[anne]

I read the SFBC omnibus in high school and never picked up another Chalker.

[lovelyangel]

I, too, have the SFBC omnibus... and also never read another Chalker. But I have to confess that I did enjoy the giant 4-in-1 novel as simple entertainment. I guess back then I just ignored the ick parts.

[anne]

Yeah, I ignored them long enough to finish the giant book! But the end of the last one, yuck. I don't remember anything else about it.

(I also disliked but read all the Xanth books. I'm so glad the Kids These Days don't have to do that.)

[bunsen_h]

Year by year, it is incrementally more difficult to read all of the Xanth books.

[foobar137]

A friend gave me the series in high school (in a large box of other books he was getting rid of), and I enjoyed them. And never read anything else by Chalker.

I'm sensing a trend here.

[jazzfish]

Adding my voice to the chorus of "ditto". I managed to be unimpressed by the Big Reveal (the Diamond system is an egg!), and somewhat impressed but thoroughly squicked by the ending. That was enough to convince me that life was too short to seek out the Well Of Souls books that I'd been hearing good things about.