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
Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
beth b - May 14, 2008 4:18:14 pm PDT #5800 of 28356
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Jessica - May 14, 2008 4:34:25 pm PDT #5801 of 28356
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
meara - May 14, 2008 4:54:50 pm PDT #5802 of 28356
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...
Susan W. - May 14, 2008 5:07:20 pm PDT #5803 of 28356
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
Gris - May 14, 2008 5:14:56 pm PDT #5804 of 28356
Hey. New board.
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.
Fred Pete - May 15, 2008 4:45:42 am PDT #5805 of 28356
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
Miracleman - May 15, 2008 4:54:09 am PDT #5806 of 28356
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
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.
Connie Neil - May 15, 2008 5:20:26 am PDT #5807 of 28356
brillig
Yeah, the Incarnations of Immortality series turned into a soap opera about this one family of divinely attractive womanly women and stopped being a very interesting series about the mechanics of Death and Time etc. On a Pale Horse is still the best of them.
Miracleman - May 15, 2008 5:33:56 am PDT #5808 of 28356
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
On a Pale Horse is still the best of them.
Absolutely. Really enjoyed that book.
Then the enjoyment curve took a swift dive.
Connie Neil - May 15, 2008 5:36:08 am PDT #5809 of 28356
brillig
The mechanics of Death and all that were brilliant, and I was really looking forward to how Anthony handled the other Incarnations, but, sadly, no, it became all about the difficulties of having a serious relationship when living backwards, and how to be a caring Earth Mother while holding down a career as a Fate, and all that.
edit: along with some very self-serving Author's Notes about how hard his life is.