He has gone at many a fan with paranoid rages that revealed an astonishingly bizarre worldview.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ginger - Mar 10, 2012 2:31:58 pm PST #18170 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amy - Mar 10, 2012 2:33:27 pm PST #18171 of 28370
Because books.
I just have to wonder what his editor thought. And why no one at the publisher thought he was possibly crossing a line.
Which is a really slippery slope, I know. But when you've got a whole theme going ...
Ginger - Mar 10, 2012 2:58:59 pm PST #18172 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He has had many publishers. He's fond of suing them.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 3:00:21 pm PST #18173 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does the poor guy get "censored" a lot? "First amendment rights" encroached on? Poor boo.
le nubian - Mar 10, 2012 4:20:25 pm PST #18174 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
People people. Buffistas have been sitting on horrible Piers Anthony knowledge.
Thanks for airing it out now. I will never make the mistake of reading or buying any of his shit again.
Volans - Mar 11, 2012 5:14:15 am PDT #18175 of 28370
move out and draw fire
I read a couple Piers Anthony short stories when I was in high school, and pretty much hated them. For the sake of my friends in college, I really tried to read a couple Xanth books and Tarot, but everything seemed like something he'd banged out in a frenzied drugged post-fap haze.
However, I believe I was objecting to the misogyny and the general creepiness; I don't think I ever noted the pedophilia like that.
Kat - Mar 11, 2012 5:27:18 pm PDT #18176 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Anyone read Hourglass by Myra McEntire?
EpicTangent - Mar 11, 2012 9:40:43 pm PDT #18177 of 28370
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I quit reading Anthony in my late teens or early 20s when I noted the pattern of adult/middle aged/sometimes downright old men hooking up with 15-17 yr-old girls. I still feel retroactively sickened from the first couple paragraphs of that link. I think I'm going to comb my bookshelves to make sure I didn't miss any of his books in previous purges.
Eeew.
Also, **shudder**
Fred Pete - Mar 12, 2012 5:00:53 am PDT #18178 of 28370
Ann, that's a ferret.
I read one Xanth book. Fairly amusing, but I was pretty sure the puns would get old fast -- so I didn't read any more.
Been a long, long time since I read the Intimations of Immortality series. I remember it raising some interesting issues, but not really resolving them.
I notice that the article mentioned (but only in passing) the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. When I read it in the mid-'80s, I saw engaging space opera. When I re-read it, I saw enough issues (not least being the hero-who-is-irresistible-to-all-women, including his sisters) to keep a therapist very, very busy.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2012 5:10:52 am PDT #18179 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Has anyone read Rachel Hawkins' Hex Hall books? The third one comes out tomorrow.