Xanth
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I've read "A Spell for Chameleon" and the first few chapters of "Crewel Lye". It's funny, and at least of what I read, tells a compelling tale.
I'm sure I read one or two of these in the 80's, but no idea which ones.
40 novels? Damn that's a lot of books in the same world. I wonder what the quality is like after so long.
40 novels? Damn that's a lot of books in the same world. I wonder what the quality is like after so long.
I enjoyed the first few trilogies, perhaps the first dozen books or so. But at a certain point the story structure starts to get really, really repetitive.
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While I highly recommend Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, I tell people to stop after book 7, the book about the Incarnation of Good. The self-published book 8, about Nox the Incarnation of Night, that one's just... disturbing. On many levels.
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This is why i bring it up.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/xanth-fantasy-movie-tv-series-development-steven-paul-1202022024/
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/xanth-fantasy-movie-tv-series-development-steven-paul-1202022024/
I would give a live-action adaptation of Xanth a try, but as with anything, the writing will be what counts.
The book series changes leads quite often. With every trilogy if I recall correctly. I wonder if the television series would stick to that format, or stick to a single recognizable lead?
The book series changes leads quite often. With every trilogy if I recall correctly. I wonder if the television series would stick to that format, or stick to a single recognizable lead?
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I read the first Xanth book as a teenager. Creepy crap I didn't need to read more of.
The Xanth series was OK for the first couple of books but the stories and chronic puns got tiresome
Ah, Xanth, you were so titillating and funny when I was a teenager. I remember weirding out my female classmates when I was reading The Color of Her Panties, somewhere around book 14 or 15 or so.
A Spell for Chameleon holds up. It's a quality tale.
Anthony's misogyny came out in his books more and more every year. I enjoyed a lot of his stuff when I was younger, and still have a lot of appreciation for a couple of the Xanth books, and the Incarnations series up to the one about Satan, along with a few other stories. Once I read his autobiography I couldn't look at his novels quite the same.
A Spell for Chameleon holds up. It's a quality tale.
Anthony's misogyny came out in his books more and more every year. I enjoyed a lot of his stuff when I was younger, and still have a lot of appreciation for a couple of the Xanth books, and the Incarnations series up to the one about Satan, along with a few other stories. Once I read his autobiography I couldn't look at his novels quite the same.
By "Crewel Lye" Anthony had admitted that the puns were the main reason he kept writing them. He had lists of puns sent in by fans, and he would go through them and choose what he felt he could build a story around, and proceeded to write from there. The lists alone numbered in the thousands, with the entries per list enough that he literally had around 100,000 puns to choose from at any given time. And that doesn't include duplications.
I know I read the first three. A friend of my gave me a box set of them for my birthday. I think I read a few more after that but I'm not sure. I just lost interest in them. Way too repetitive. And the puns got old after awhile.
