I don't think they're misogynistic, exactly. He treats the male and female characters at an equally surface level. In fact, I'd say that his heroines are generally more interesting and capable than his heroes, though I'm admittedly biased towards female characters in all fiction.

That game sounds like fun!

The Author's Notes are funny, because he TRIES to play it like he's a "cool" guy but really all they are are him saying "Stop sending me pages and pages of puns! Stop sending me books to autograph! In fact, stop sending me letters at all! They annoy me, I like my solitude, leave me alone! Also, buy my books. Also, I rock."

And it's AWESOME.

No it's not. Take that back.

I have read a lot of Anthony. His short stories are a world of OH JOHN RINGO NO.

OMFG, appalling sexist crap!

adept series was really fun

what I remember from the Xanath series -- woman generally smarter than men, mostly because men could be distracted by thoughts of panties

The Incarnations of Immortality series were my Anthony crack of choice. I remember trying to read a Xanth novel once and being thoroughly put off by just about everything in it.

The Incarnations of Immortality series were my Anthony crack of choice

Those ones I still have, but haven't re-read in a long time. I'm sure I will one of these days, though....since I still have them...

Having decided it's past time I read War and Peace, I ordered a copy of the Pevear translation, vowing to read it in a couple of months when I'm between WIPs.

Maybe I should've bought a translation available in paperback, because this thing is right up there with a Riverside Shakespeare or Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible for weight. I knew W&P is a massively long book, but...wow. Taking this thing with me on the bus, which is the main time I have to read, is going to do interesting things to my shoulders.

No it's not. Take that back.

No! Bad fiction like this keeps me going until Amazon replaces my Kindle so I can finish re-reading Cryptonomicon. Since my original copy is in Mississippi.

I went through a brief Piers Anthony phase. Incarnations of Immortality was interesting. The Bio of a Space Tyrant series was half fun mindless space opera, half pubescent sexual fantasy. I read one Xanth novel -- enjoyed it, but realized that a novel series based on puns would wear thin quickly.

The Incarnations of Immortality series were my Anthony crack of choice

I got to Being A Green Mother (I think that's what it was called), before I gave up and threw the damn thing across the room. I was already sick to death of the series by Wielding a Red Sword wherein the "hero" spends most of the time agonizing over how to get laid without guilt within the context of his religion or something. Oh, and then Satan shows up.

I read part of one Xanth book and threw it across the room.