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Piers Anthony. Ugh. He's the Michael Bay of writers, but more prolific (and more cookie cutter). Designed to excite pre/post-pubescent teenage boys. Women are objects, and they know it, and they don't care! The Death book was typical "if you're more good than bad you go to heaven" drivel, which turned in to "how do I beat Satan this time" books. I never even made it to the Xanth books, which I take to mean that I actually grew a brain! -Pie |
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1) Look at the nick you're responding to! And (2), J.K. Rowling wrote at least one truly awful book. 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. I started reading the series after the release of Half-Blood Prince and if I didn't have another book to move on to immediately after OOTP to get the awful taste out of my mouth, I would have punted right there. It also helped that Rowling's writing improved phenomenally! And, of course, I consider the last book to be one of the best I've ever read. -Pie Last edited by EatingPie; 08-02-2011 at 05:15 AM. |
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Fantasy to avoid, harder than it sounds. I'll read most anything once or at least give it a try. I struggle sometimes between my dislike of a book and my completion issues. Robin Hobbs, wanted to like her, fell for all the reviews, blech. Can't do it. Terry Brooks Shannara series. Too much of a wannabe. Drove me nuts. I do enjoy many of his other books though. Gor, man those take me back. Read a few and yes, I liked them. I make no excuses. But I can't imagine reading all of them. David Eddings, so talented at characterization and snappy dialogue. The Belgariad is one of my favorite reads of all time and I need the Mallorean because I have closure issues. Steer clear of anything that Anne McCaffrey writes with her son Todd. I loved the Pern series, it was one of the first books I ordered from the Science Fiction Book Club when I was 13. It surely lost momentum and coherence in it's later editions. I never got into Xanth but Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality were great reads and, though I haven't read them since college, the Blue Adept series was fun too. Never liked the Gunslinger books, Steven King lost me at Tommyknockers. I'm sure I could think of more but I need more coffee. Last edited by Lizzie in Ma; 08-03-2011 at 09:30 AM. |
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I thought the Twilight books were a hoot, never read a series where I couldn't stand the female protagonist before. Now I have. |
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Sorry to disappoint, but my nickname has nothing to do with Piers Anthony or his series. I've never read his books. I've used it in various places for over a decade now and had never even heard of the author or the Xanth series before I chose it.
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No, because I have no interest in the characters. I'm just not into stories involving groups of pre-teens/teens, even if they are in genres that I usually like. I'm just too far removed from that age group to give a damn about their fictional cares and worries.
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You have my apologies. And you deserve the name far more than anything created by Piers Anthony (aka PierXANTHony... yep, that's where the bozo got it). -Pie |
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No harm, no foul.
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I think you mean Anne McCaffrey. She wrote the Pern trilogy, and the Harper Hall trilogy. Both of which I really enjoyed. Others in the series, not so much.
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Frank Herbert's worst books look good by comparison to the sequels written by his son and Kevin J. Anderson who is another writer I avoid. I still bought his new book Captain Nemo because the description sounded like it would be good, but I gave up on it after a couple of chapters. |
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i don't think i'd even read them if i was young. when i was "harry potter age" i read dragonlance and forgotten realms, books with characters my own age never appealed to me. |
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All three of these books are fairly heavy. Ranging from melancholy (Mockingbird) to downright depressing (Hunger Games). There's a lot of YA literature out there that explores a range of emotions, and if you don't like graphic sex or lots of swearing, it's a good genre to find quality literature. -Pie |
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McCaffery is still a good read (just re-finished the series up to All the Weyrs of Pern last week) but from what I hear, Todd's books are terrible and doesn't have the same talent, and she's gotten too old to write or something. 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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