Roger Zelazny discussion

Wilderness is written by Roger Zelazny & Gerald Hausman. I remembered I had this book when I read Hausman's account of his friendship with Zelazny in the beginning of The Road to Amber, the 6th book of the Collected Works. Hausman tells how Zelazny kicked off his career & helped him out, asking only that he pay it forward.

"Wilderness" is a western about 2 early mountain men; John Colter and Hugh Glass. I'm somewhat familiar with the actual historical accounts & have noticed some differences, so these are fictionalized accounts, but good just the same. The book alternates chapters, starting with Colter & then switching to Glass.

Colter is known for his infamous run, while Glass is known for surviving a bear attack & then making his way back to civilization. Their stories are stranger than fiction & I find it amusing that the fictionalized account is actually tamer in some ways than the true stories. That any humans could have done what they did is just incredible.

Here's links to their Wikipedia entries, but don't read them until after you've read the book:

John Colter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Colter

Hugh Glass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

I finished the book today & edited my first post because I had posted a spoiler in my ignorance of how the authors would handle the story. Don't read up on the men until after reading this book. I gave it 4 stars. It might deserve another. Really good.

My review is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

There will be an audiobook version released by Speaking Volumes sometime. Gerald Hausman told me that he and Trent Zelazny recorded it. But so far no mention of its pending release on the Speaking Volumes website.

Chris