A fish dinner in Memison, [Hardcover]

Eric Rücker Eddison (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 349 pages
• Publisher: Dutton (1941)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0007DXUWK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read Book #3 first, then #2 and finally #1, August 26, 2004

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Midnight Sun Books "Kathy" (Alaska, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Fish Dinner in Memison (Mass Market Paperback)

A great series. Suggest you start, however with Book #3 of the Trilogy, The Mezentian Gate and then this book, A Fish Dinner in Memison, and then finally Book #1, Mistress of Mistresses last. This order is how the books progress #3,2,1, but not how they were written.

Even better is to read The Worm Ouroboros first a couple of times before the Zimiamvian Triology.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Book That Made Me Fall in Love with Fantasy, January 7, 2005

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Sires "I enjoy mysteries, historical and proc... (Chesapeake, OH, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Fish Dinner in Memison (Mass Market Paperback)

Ok, I confess I read this book in the series first. I bought my original copy at a roadside flea market for a dime in the early 70's in a rural county in an appalachian state. No idea how it got there. I still have that copy sitting on my shelf beside the Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses and The Menzentian Gate.

Eddison created this baroque world similar to the plots and counterplots of Renaissance Europe. It is guaranteed to appeal to adolsecent anqst but there is also enough meat to hook the inquiring mind for a lifetime. I haven't read it in a long time because I don't need to do so, I carry it around in my mind-- from which it peeks now and then when something calls it up.

His prose is deliberately archaic. His books are not an easy read but they well repay reading.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's for Dinner?, June 20, 2011

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Richard Coanda "Rick Coanda, former professor" (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Fish Dinner in Memison (Paperback)

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said he included no love scene between Nick and his paramour in "The Great Gatsby" because it was beyond his talent to write such a scene. This beautiful novel contains such scenes from start to finish and should be revered as a classic even if for no other reason. The women in this novel are goddesses, and the men so regard them. One even shape-shifts into a lynx on occasion. The men are swashbucklers; see the chapter "Seven Against the King" for a stirring example.

Eddison has a rich and arcane vocabulary. It would be good to have a dictionary at your side as you read. He writes in 17th century English prose, the prose of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Browne, though, unlike Shakespeare, he inserts no neologisms for you to stumble over. The book is a marvel, and I'm sure its companion volumes are likewise. I look forward to reading them in my old age, which is now. I had no idea anyone in this age could write so well. This is the exquisite beauty the renowned James Joyce so often strives for and misses. I give this my highest recommendation.