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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."

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Kate P. - Oct 25, 2005 8:41:07 am PDT #9292 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I tried to read the first Thomas Covenant book and got maybe 25 pages into it before losing interest. I thought it was really dull. I'm surprised so many other people liked (or at least finished) them. Maybe they pick up...?

eta: also, did not read any Piers Anthony books. I win!

Jessica - Oct 25, 2005 8:41:40 am PDT #9293 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Didn't we all read Xanth?

Please. As if I'd ever admit it in public.

Dana - Oct 25, 2005 8:41:59 am PDT #9294 of 10002

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I reread/skimmed the Xanth books I had before I got rid of them. His portrayals of women are really appalling.

Aims - Oct 25, 2005 8:42:09 am PDT #9295 of 10002

Shit's all sorts of different now.

What would teenagers read if it weren't for Piers Anthony?

Anne of Green Gables.

§ ita § - Oct 25, 2005 8:42:10 am PDT #9296 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

no

I'm going to assume that's an age thing, because I don't think I could possibly have not read Xanth. It was just so there, during the voracious years. And it was such a fast read that even when I suspected it stank, momentum meant I read three or four more books before I stopped and sold them.

Volans - Oct 25, 2005 8:47:27 am PDT #9297 of 10002

move out and draw fire

His portrayals of women are really appalling.

Not limited to his Xanth books, this. Makes Heinlein look good.

DXMachina - Oct 25, 2005 8:49:10 am PDT #9298 of 10002

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I'm going to assume that's an age thing, because I don't think I could possibly have not read Xanth.

Yeah, I was an adult when they came out, but they didn't look all that interesting to me.

Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2005 8:53:51 am PDT #9299 of 10002

Ann, that's a ferret.

Didn't we all read Xanth?

One. Crewel Lye. Amusing, but the conceit would wear thin fast.

Not limited to his Xanth books, this.

Bio of a Space Tyrant series, anyone?

And BTW, I saw the new Thomas Covenant book while wandering through a bookstore at lunch. The trick is (probably non-spoilery because it's on the back cover of the book, but just in case) that Linden Avery, who readers of the second series may remember, is the one sent to the Land. Covenant's son is involved somehow or other.

Might be tempting because the book is on sale (DCistas, the Reprint at L'Enfant Plaza is having a storewide sale to celebrate its 50th anniversary), but I doubt I'd pay full price. Even for the trade paperback, which this is.

Lee - Oct 25, 2005 9:34:25 am PDT #9300 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I don't even know what the Xanth books are.

askye - Oct 25, 2005 9:37:16 am PDT #9301 of 10002

Thrive to spite them

I haven't read the Xanth books but I did read the Incarnations of Immortality books.

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