10-18-2002, 07:50 AM | #1 |
Sapling
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Piers Anthony books
I love the Incarnations of Imortality series by Piers Anthony.
It has the right mix of fantasy and sci-fi. My question is, how many other people like them to? Please post your answer! Bye for now! |
10-22-2002, 03:10 PM | #2 |
Hobbit
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GRONKs never read the Incarnations of Imortality series, but he is familiar with Piers Anthony. Is the series interesting, but at points gets so obnoxiously perverted that you want to put the book down? Thats how Piers Anthony's works always are. The most recurring themes of his novels are magic, sex, and nudity in that order.
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10-28-2002, 01:56 PM | #3 |
Elf Lord
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They're absolutely the best mixed scifi/fantasy series I've ever read and I've done so several times.
I did begin reading Bio of A Space Tyrant, but thought it a bit long-winded. |
11-01-2002, 04:22 PM | #4 |
Hobbit
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Sorry, Anthony seems to have talent, but GRONKs not familiar with the series. GRONK took Anthony's Xanth books out of the library for a while, but gave up quickly on them. The books were amusing and funny, but had way too many sexual references to stomache. A year or two later GRONK tried reading this book by Anthony on cave men (cant remember the name). GRONK got up to page six before he got disgusted. The book sounded like it was once a pornography that had been converted into a novel. If the Incarnations series is unlike Anthony's other works GRONK would consider reading it though.
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11-09-2002, 07:28 PM | #5 |
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It's probably one of his few serious stories. IfXanth disgusted you then I don't reccomend his apprentice adept seris, it takes place in a nudist colony.
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11-09-2002, 07:34 PM | #6 |
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The first few xanth novels were quite clever, but it got a bit repetitive and boring after a while.
He wrote Dead Morn, right? I thought that was really good.
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