He has gone at many a fan with paranoid rages that revealed an astonishingly bizarre worldview.
Tara: That was funny if you've studied Taglarin mystic rites and... are a total dork... Riley: Then how come Xander didn't laugh?
'Selfless'
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 28282
"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 28282
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 28282
"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 28282
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 28282
"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 28282
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 28282
"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 28282
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 28282
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 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Has anyone read Rachel Hawkins' Hex Hall books? The third one comes out tomorrow.