+1 for Amber. Much of the rest of Zelazny is good, too. I actually like Lord Of Light better, though it's a bit less approachable (in the specific sense that I picked it up and put it down a few times before getting into it).
Lord of Light is brilliant. It is also very strong stuff - dense, metaphorical, and poetic. It should probably not be the first Zelazny of anyone who's just branching out from GRRM.
To be honest, I had read so much hype about the book before reading it, that, paradoxically, I ended up not liking Lord of Light that much (it does have a very interesting premise).
On the other hand, I basically stumbled on the Chronicles of Amber - I bought the huge omnibus book because it was good words-per-dollar value, back when e-books didn't exist and I needed my books to last me my whole holidays!!
I didn't like LoL much the first time I read it. Admittedly I was also a teenager at the time. When I came back to it much later, I was more willing to engage with Zelazny's desire to play with language. I suspect I'd also had various life experiences the book speaks to; in some respects it was very much one of those 'you'll understand this when you're older' things for me.
I enjoyed the hell out of the Amber books the first time around, though!
