His portrayals of women are really appalling.
Not limited to his Xanth books, this. Makes Heinlein look good.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Volans - Oct 25, 2005 8:47:27 am PDT #9297 of 10002
move out and draw fire
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.
Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2005 9:42:49 am PDT #9302 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I don't even know what the Xanth books are.
A 30-volume punfest.
P.M. Marc - Oct 25, 2005 9:52:04 am PDT #9303 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Atropa - Oct 25, 2005 10:11:00 am PDT #9304 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
askye - Oct 25, 2005 10:15:43 am PDT #9305 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
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.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 25, 2005 10:17:50 am PDT #9306 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What would teenagers read if it weren't for Piers Anthony?
I got hooked on the Chronicles of Amber instead, plus other random Zelazny (Doorways in the Sand is actually my fave of his - I still love it). Also lots and lots of horror fiction (Stephen King and Peter Straub topping the list).
The only Anthony I read were the first few Incranations, but I lost interest.
I couldn't make it past page 4 on Interview with a Vampire.
I did read all of Covenant though. I was hooked on how unrelentingly bleak it all was.