Xanth

Anthony's "Xanth" series is more light-hearted, and makes a nice end-piece for the "Captain Underpants" set as they become middle-schoolers. Rife with panty jokes, literal puns (ie a "heart attack" from a neighboring kingdom), and silly, but strangely ...

 CA Anthony’s most popular and longest running series is Xanth started in 1977. Anthony has written essentially one Xanth novel every year since then. The Xanth novels blend colorful characters with humorous plots that have managed to stay fresh for over ...

 CO I guess I've read way too many Xanth novels by Piers Anthony, a series in which I have every book but two, and now that I have a new bookshelf, I have room to add it. However, you're not here to find out about my personal library, you're here to find ...

Danielle Ackley-McPhail] certainly seems to know her Celtic mythology…a solid story. —Piers Anthony, bestselling author of the Xanth series ... vids.myspace.com

Take for example the Xanth books are $5.59 (it was $7 something but I see they lowered the price) but the paperback for A Spell for Chameleon is $3.95, The Source of Magic is $4.95. I don't see the value there. If the Kindle version were less than the ...

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By Michael A. Novelli not that I'm complaining), but his characters are remarkably easy to spend time with, so if you can keep your sensibilities from being offended too much in the first few chapters of any given Xanth story, it's worth it in the end."

By Mad Baker The Xanth novels by Piers Anthony - Read the first three. They're really quite clever and funny. But then the jokes run out, the puns become onerous, and they just aren't good anymore. But, wow, have they gone on... and on... and on ...

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By Jared The Xanth novels by Piers Anthony - Read the first three. They're really quite clever and funny. But then the jokes run out, the puns become onerous, and they just aren't _good_ anymore. But, wow, have ...

By Scott Barry Kaufman His first novel in the series, A Spell for Chameleon, won the 1997 British Derleth Fantasy Award. The fifth book in the Xanth series, Ogre, Ogre, was one of the first fantasy paperback novels to make the New York Time bestseller list. ...

By Amy Poe Piers Anthony’s thirty-second Xanth fantasy doesn’t disappoint. Join the princesses, Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm as they take on a powerful bird called Ragna Rok who is bent on becoming the absolute ruler of Xanth. ...

cover image The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spared. ...

The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spared. The rest simply disappear, ...

  USA - Oct 23, 2008 This title is the 32nd entry in his Xanth series, involving more threats to the mythical realm when Ragna Roc decides to become "supreme ruler. ...

Good: Clean pages. Good condition overall. . $4.50.

By Geek Monkey (Chris) The Lord of the Rings stayed as the epicenter of my fantasy world, but along the periphery I found CS Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia, Terry Brooks and the Shannara series, the Xanth novels of Piers Anthony, the Riddle-Master trilogy ...

By Emma Larkins As for Xanth...I wouldn't be in fantasy and science fiction as firmly as I am without Piers Anthony and the Xanth "trilogy", so his examples tend to stay with me no matter how many thousands of books I've read since then. ...

A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spared. The rest simply disappear, in Anthony's 32nd novel in the Xanth fantasy ...

Anyway, the two series I loved the most were the "Xanth" series and "Adept" series- I thought they were ALL TIME CLASSICS. I had them, in order, on my bookshelf and I must have read them 10 times each. And then I kissed a girl yada yada ...

Xanth (Piers Anthony) Alex Cross (James Patterson) REBOOT plz (Maybe with Chwitel Ejifor?). Martin Vail (William Diehl) The Corps (WEB Griffin) Kinsey Milhone aka Alphabet Series (Sue Grafton) Myron Bolitar (Harlan Coben) ...

Del Rey (1987), Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages.

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By Tim Janson Book Buzz: Piers Anthony Returns to Xanth (Monday, October 13, 2008) Book Review of The Living Dead (Monday, October 13, 2008). Buy These Related Products. Taboo Charming Mother - Vol. 6: Immoral Tears · Tears in the Rain ...

By The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County cover image. Anthony, Piers. New York : Tor, 2008. 302 p. : map ; 24 cm. The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. ...

By Nathan I've now finished reading Man from Mundania, the twelfth book in Piers Anthony's Xanth series. It's been a while since I've read anything in this series, but I had trouble finding this particular volume, and didn't want to skip it and ...

By H2Omelons Look for this book at the BookCrossers meeting.

By Piers Anthony There is trouble in Xanth again. The Gap Dragon had escaped and was ravaging across the land, the forget-spell was causing mass amnesia, three-year old Ivy was headed right for a hungry dragon. Could things get any worse? Probably....

Piers Anthony used a typewriter up through the first seven Xanth novels, though he finally got a computer with a Dvorak keyboard (note that I am not clear on what this is) to do *Golem in the Gears* (the eighth Xanth novel, ...

By Kari Sperring I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth. Piers Anthony What places have inspired you today?

By Tan My first foray into Piers Anthony’s world of Xanth and it certainly didn’t disappoint. At first I wasn’t sure what to expect but I’ll say that it made Alice on Wonderland seem like a dull world! Great characters and a great story put ...

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By Harriet Two to the Fifth Piers Anthony Tor, Oct 2008, $24.95 ISBN: 9780765319357 The world of Xanth is in danger (so what else is gnu I mean new). The powerful sorcerer Ragna Roc is methodically taking over villages as the bird soars to new ...

By Piers Anthony the foal-napping of young Che Centaur by goblins. And the only one who knows where Che is is a nice but remarkably naive elflike girl named Jenny from the World of Two Moons. If anyone can save the missing centaur... she sure can't.

By Chris Meadows So they did things like publish the latest Piers Anthony Xanth novel (”Don’t groan, people. That stuff sells!“) because they had the broader market to be concerned with. And people need to remember that Tor doesn’t just publish SF. ...

By Rigel Kent I used to be hooked on Piers Anthony's stuff, until about the 49th Xanth novel. It was all becoming so...the same. "Let's count the obscure puns in THIS one!" I started with his "Omnivore" trilogy. I REALLY enjoy his short stories. ...

Good: Clean pages. Tight Spine. Bumped corners. . $9.25.

By Piers Anthony Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled -- where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. That is, except for Bink of North Village. He was sure he possessed no magic, and knew that if he didn't find some soon, ...

By ibdragon I wouldn’t discount him out as an author though. He has written some very entertaining stuff. The Xanth fantasy series had some truly funny books. Body of work of Piers Anthony Piers Anthony’s site: http://www.hipiers.com/ ...

By Piers Anthony Being grown up is a drag...or so thinks Lacuna, one of the michievous Castle Zombie twins. So she makes the Good Magician Grey an an offer he can't refuse. Thirsty for a taste of the Elixir of Youth, she'll help him outwit the evil ...

About the Author: Piers Anthony is probably better known for his fantasy series on the world of Xanth. He mostly writes fantasy and science fiction. He has written other novels about historical fiction such as this series. ...

By Piers Anthony Smash, himself, was part ogre. Although ogres were considered so stupid they coud hardly speak, and spent their time eating young girls, seven assorted females had suddenly turned to him for guidance and saftety? ...

By Phil Sumpter Xanth is a land of centaurs, dragons and basilisks, where every citizen has a special spell only he or she can cast. I had a vivid imagination and hunger for adventure, so this kind of multifarious reality provided me with ample food ...

By fatbird img]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee84/Bird_FAT/PD4x/PiersAnthony.jpg[/img] Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, ...

By Howard Junker Breanna, a girl who has come to the magical land of Xanth from Mundania (the non-magic real-world) accidentally naps in a grove that is normally used to signal one's desire to be married. Xeth, the king of the zombies, ...

By Pat Ferrara Other notable releases this week include Max Brooks’ zombie horror thriller World War Z on paperback (which got a rave review from our own staffer Brian Thomas) and the 31st Piers Anthony Xanth novel Air Apparent on hardback. ...

By Joseph-Beth The first book in the Xanth series, “A Spell for Chameleon” follows the adventures of Bink, an inhabitant of Xanth. Bink is going to be exiled on his 25th birthday, because he doesn’t have a magic “talent” In Xanth, every human must ...

By Cliff Pickover Xanth (novel series) by Piers Anthony: Bink, the main character, accidentally cut off his middle finger as a child, while playing with a cleaver. - Phoenix and Ashes (novel) by Mercedes Lackey: The main character, Eleanor Robinson, ...

By gaspode I thought the Xanth books sucked. Wait, you were so into the series and you thought it sucked? Please clarify. BTW, On a pale horse is NOT part of the Xanth series. Neither is Tatham Mound by Piers. Which is a most enjoyable read, ...

By Jette Kernion I started reading Piers Anthony's Xanth series in junior high. The books are about a land called Xanth (pictured at right) that is shaped suspiciously like Florida, where everyone has magical powers. In fact, if you don't demonstrate ...

By Little Willow There are the crossovers that straddle our world and theirs, like His Dark Materials and The NeverEnding Story - and my favorite Xanth novel, Demons Don't Dream. Xanth would be the quasi-medieval-slash-comedy category. ...