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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Hearken back to the darkness known as Order of the Phoenix, which I considered the equivalent to literary torture. Harry was angry... sorry... ANGRY!!!@@!#R$!! Yeah, he had reason to be, Dolores Umbridge was the most ridiculously black-and-white character in history, painted with broad strokes, and so relentless it became pure stupidity... wait Harry was ANGRY!!!@@!#R$!! before she arrived. Ah well, so much for there being a reason.
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The one case where the movie version of a Harry Potter film was better than the book. She went overboard on Harry's angst and they toned it down for the movie.
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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
Anthony...I just re-read some of his stuff. Xanth...first couple, maybe up to Crewel Lye, are OK. Incarnations...is OK. Depending on the book. Evil is still good. Adept trilogy is still good, but goes way off kilter in the sequel series. And man, Anthony has a dirty old pervert thing going in some of his books that just seems weird, now. I dunno if it's being a parent now or what but it just jumps out at me a lot more than it used to.
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I just accept that Anthony is a dirty old man. I don't mind that, since I aspire to be the same thing.
Personally, the Incarnations Of Immortality is the high water mark for his writing, with the Mode series probably second. Apprentice Adept, like most Anthony, goes off the rails the further he tries to extend the concept (the 7th book is worthless.) I also enjoyed Bio Of A Space Tyrant, even if it is a poor satire on politics.
As for Xanth, that's really just brain candy: mildly enjoyable, but no real nutritional value. Occasionally he writes one that is above average ("Yon Ill Wind" was the last one I felt he wasn't going through the motions for.), but I don't expect much out of it.