Smooth operator.

you could have a book of the month club devoted solely to Piers Anthony novels alone, he must write 3 novels a week.

Certainly a hack, though Robert Jordan is getting there with his neverending series. Robert though, is concentrating on one series and one set of characters to explore his hack ideas, whereas Anthony, spread his hackery amongst many series and genres.

That being said, I kind of liked the first few Xanth books, when I read them all those years ago.

The Incarnations of Immortality series is actually, IMO, quite good - though Xanth did get old after the first few.

Apprentice Adept was awesome, although years later I know he revisited this story and I didn't hear good things so I have avoided the second trilogy of this like the plague. I will remember the first three fondly always.

The first 5-6 Xanth books were also very good, and original IMHO.

Obviously I really enjoyed On a Pale Horse (see avatar) in my teen years, and yes I re-read it and found it a bit pathetic but I still think the general concept of the book and the idea of it was incredible. I just have to skip over the part Zane suddenly starts talking all pathetically to the "Hell-**tches" Jeez that was so out of character.

The rest of the books felt pretty much like he put them on a copy machine and just tweaked some of the words and characters around. I quite after the third I think.

Wait! I think I just had a =||= thought!

The only Incarnation book I didn't enjoy was War. That was the third one, right?

I thought Time was rather clever, and the overriding plot became more clear by book four. Fate was a great book, For Love of Evil was a homerun, then And Eternity took your whole perceptions of the preceding books and turned them on their ear.


Yes, I read these when I was a teen. Maybe I should revisit. However, I remember gobbling these books up cover to cover and really enjoying them. I've never read anything else by him--his other stuff just seemed too silly.

Y'know Dune doesn't really survive a re-reading. High school kid scores winning touchdown, nails a cheerleader, gets to be prom king -- that's basically the plot. I'm beginning to believe there are no good novels.

What Ken said.

Saw this at Gencon for the first time. Almost bought it since I used to like the novels.

Glad I passed!

This is why you are Super Cool.

This is the best sentence I've read all day.

Actually one of the better "quest" style games I've played. Got it for my birthday when I was about 12. Unfortunately, I'm missing about a third of the cards now(Shelf collapsed and room was messy.)

If this is the "worst" game in your collection, your collection must be pretty good.

Yeah, I'm very causious about what I buy