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Corwin's Pentology is a very cool thing. Together with the protagonist, the reader is amazed, stunned, tries to understand something, is amazed again, turns the picture of the world upside down, consumes buckets of popcorn, tries to figure out this soap opera, takes half a liter of vodka, leaves half a liter alone because it's still difficult to understand, jumps half a meter with a new, shocking plot twist, and in the end, is no longer surprised by anything. The impressive, very colorful descriptions are particularly pleasing - I don't know if the author or the translator tried hard, but there is a lot of color and special effects in the book, sometimes it even makes your eyes hurt. 10/10.
Merlin's Pentology is a bit weaker. Using the personality and biography of the protagonist, the author throws a lot of content at the reader, and if at the beginning everything is quite interesting in the spirit of the first pentology, then in the middle it turns into a complete mess, chaos, and absurdity, new plot elements appear out of nowhere and are immediately cut off, pianos come out of cars and gods out of bushes, the level of SURPRISE is off the charts, and the ending is weak; the author, apparently, could not bring everything to a beautiful finale and hastily cobbled together something that somehow completes the main plot lines, but there are more questions than answers, and overall this pentology left a more chaotic impression. But it is still interesting and readable. 7/10.
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