I don't even know what the Xanth books are.
A 30-volume punfest.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
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."
Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2005 9:42:49 am PDT #9302 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2005 10:19:01 am PDT #9307 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was hooked on how unrelentingly bleak it all was.
The Bloodguard kept me interested.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2005 10:20:51 am PDT #9308 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was hooked on Interview With a Vampire in college, but not high school-- Piers Anthony was more around 5th and 6th grade. I read so much at that point in my life that the ratio of crap to decent stuff was probably pretty good. But I averaged about 10 - 12 books per week from the library, plus whatever was around at home.
Connie Neil - Oct 25, 2005 10:21:23 am PDT #9309 of 10002
brillig
Xanth got boring quickly. Zelazny and Andre Norton did it for me.
Atropa - Oct 25, 2005 10:23:41 am PDT #9310 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I couldn't make it past page 4 on Interview with a Vampire.
When you're a sixteen-year old babybat, it's THE BEST BOOK EVAR!!
Of course, if I were a sixteen-year old babybat nowadays, I'd be hooked on Vampire Kisses and Kissing Coffins. More than I am right now, I mean.
Jessica - Oct 25, 2005 10:24:15 am PDT #9311 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I knew Xanth was crap even when I was reading them, but the sheer volume of books in the series kept me reading because there was something comforting about the knowledge that I'd never run out. Other series, I'd get to the end and then be pissed that there weren't more of them, and at least Xanth never disappointed me that way.