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Loading... The Dream Master (1966)by Roger ZELAZNY
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I don’t know why this one is largely under the radar. Imaginative, nicely written, vision of the future which isn’t so wrong -love the dog. But is there anybody who has read this and understands the ongoing part of the man walking along the road who ends up killing himself? Is this Render? Is this how he escapes being trapped in another person’s dream? Is everything that happens in the book a dream except for this part of it? rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-dream-master-by-roger... I don’t know why this one is largely under the radar. Imaginative, nicely written, vision of the future which isn’t so wrong -love the dog. But is there anybody who has read this and understands the ongoing part of the man walking along the road who ends up killing himself? Is this Render? Is this how he escapes being trapped in another person’s dream? Is everything that happens in the book a dream except for this part of it? rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-dream-master-by-roger... It's probably sacrilege to say it, but the point of this SF classic was lost on me (and generally I *like* Zelazny). I found it confusing, structurally a bit of a mess, and a chore to get through. There's a sound central premise, but the explication and conclusion are mishandled, or perhaps I really didn't get it. Expanded into a novel from a shorter story, I'm willing to bet that the shorter form was better. no reviews | add a review
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His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind-and the terrors that lurk therein. No library descriptions found. |
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But is there anybody who has read this and understands the ongoing part of the man walking along the road who ends up killing himself? Is this Render? Is this how he escapes being trapped in another person’s dream? Is everything that happens in the book a dream except for this part of it?
rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-dream-master-by-roger... ( )