Roger Zelazny discussion

Roger Zelazny by Carl B. Yoke purports to be a guide to Zelazny's work from his debut in 1962 until the late 1970's when this work was published. I've never read it & hadn't realized it existed until I stumbled across it while adding books to the group shelves.

Have you read it? What did you think of it?

This book does look interesting... anything that has to do with Zelazny sounds interesting to me however. The question I have is for someone who has read this book. Is this a book that you have to be very familiar and have read a lot of Zelazny's books in order to appreciate it? Sometimes I enjoy knowing a lot about an author before I read his books, it just makes me like the books more because I am understanding where the author is coming from and sometimes I like just the opposite. It all depends on the author it seems.

I just started Threshold 1 The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny & it has an intro by Carl B. Yoke. Apparently the two were friends since they sat together at the same desk in second grade. They wrote a lot together. I have to say that his intro didn't thrill me, while I found the one by Robert Silverberg was interesting, even though Yoke had a lot more personal stuff to say.