Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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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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.
His portrayals of women are really appalling.
Not limited to his Xanth books, this. Makes Heinlein look good.
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.
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.
I don't even know what the Xanth books are.
I haven't read the Xanth books but I did read the Incarnations of Immortality books.
I don't even know what the Xanth books are.
A 30-volume punfest.
I stopped reading Xanth by the time I was a teen, though I think Incarnations lasted for me until 14 or so. I'd have to check the publish dates to know when I quit for sure.
And this is the second time in as many weeks that Xanth/Piers Anthony/Poor Taste as a Teen has come up in places I read. So I'm feeling confessional deja vu.
I read the TC books back when I was still reading RAH and PA, so I know better than to attempt a re-read, on account of suspect taste.
Didn't we all read Xanth?
Yes.
What would teenagers read if it weren't for Piers Anthony?
Dracula. Interview with the Vampire. And a whole lotta Stephen King.
What would teenagers read if it weren't for Piers Anthony?
Too much Danielle Steele and non fiction about the Old West.
In middle school it was too much Sweet Valley High and Dragon Lance.