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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."
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.
Anyone read Hourglass by Myra McEntire?
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**
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.
Has anyone read Rachel Hawkins' Hex Hall books? The third one comes out tomorrow.
How do you interpret Harry Potter being called "the most definitive series of my life so far"?
Maybe the speaker is talking about books published during their lives? Then I pause and think..."definitive" is an interesting, puzzling word. I'd probably default to Hitchhiker's, because it's really simple and lazy to do so, but how can any series even be definitive? It just seems wrong...
Hmmm...maybe that it defines what a series ought to be. It is the gold-standard against which all other series are measured?
It is an odd word choice.
I think it is a weird choice of words, but I like Debet's interpretation. For that poster, it was everything a series should be, and everything she wanted in a series.
Then I have no idea what I would pick. I'd almost feel like I were being cruel..
fwiw, the io9 excerpt for Machine is interesting. [link] The synopsis? Not so much. Which, it turns out, is fine, because it has nothing to do with the book, and is wrong on several counts.
ETA: Kat, Hourglass is on my TBR list.