"I'd get what I needed and take what I wanted, and I'd remember those who helped me and step on the rest. For this, I knew, was the law by which our family lived..."

Nine Prince in Amber by Roger Zelazny

I adore Amber. I've still never read further than Nine Princes - but I have the Great Book out of the library, so I'm going to try to rectify that. Nor have I ever managed to actually play a game of Amber Diceless, though I did make it all the way through the attribute auction in an PBeM once.

But anyway. There's something in that premise that just resonates at my frequency. The ruthless, endless, convoluted twine of Amberrite politics. It's just beautiful.

(Finished The Etched City last night in a hour-and-a-half sprint of hoping that she might bring it home in a satisfying manner. I didn't really find it so, must admit. So now I can go read Tessa's review, and probably disagree. But it'd be a boring world if we were all the same.)