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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Book,
This review is from: Eye of Cat (Hardcover)
Next to Lord of Light, Zelazny's best, and one of the all-time great sci-fi books. More than anything it is a study of psychology--how life and experience shape our character and world view. Singer builds a mental trap for himself that he can't escape and descends into schizophrenia, wrestling with the modern and ancient that conflict within him. At the end he finds closure, in a powerful and tragic manner. A deep, complex book that deserves multiple reads. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A highly literate action-adventure.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Eye of Cat (Mass Market Paperback)
The action never lets up once it gets rolling, but this book manages to be as literate as anything you can find. The prose is lyrical and intense. Zelazny uses it make you feel the exhaustion, pain, fear, et cetera the Singer is feeling. You get right into his mind. This book is also chalk full of Navajo folklore. The very end turns into a struggle between Singers light and dark halfs. The world needs more books like this.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Full of surprises, unique, and entertaining.,
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This review is from: Eye of Cat (Mass Market Paperback)
In EYE OF CAT, Roger Zelazny tells the story of the last Navajo tracker, more than a full century into the future. In the world of this book, teleportation is possible, and all across the planet there are "trip boxes" that can be used to move instantly from one place to another.
The book's story follows the aforementioned Navajo tracker as he uses these trip boxes to run from an evil alien presence that he had previously made a deal with; as the tracker defends himself from the alien's mind-probing abilities, he descends into a primitive mindset that causes him to see the entire world as the spirit world of Navajo mythology. A group of powerful psychics attempts to help him, but even they are reinvented by the tracker's mind as native totems and cave paintings. The way Zelazny intertwines this unique--although not incomparable to that of his book BRIDGE OF ASHES--future world, with the surreality of Navajo myth, killer aliens, and the powers of teleportation and psychic ability is really cool, experimental, and well-done. Best of all, it's frequently surprising--Zelazny usually is, and he doesn't disappoint here--and it's also funny, lyrically written, and a page-turner sure to make you neglect any other books you may be reading at the same time. Read it, for sure. I just read it, but it strikes me as the sort of book I'll still be thinking about years from now.
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