Myth-ing Persons

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418506

I tried, I really tried. The way that my sister was talking about this book, it sounded like so much fun, and there was so much potential. But... I just can't like this book.

First off, I think that it could have been so much shorter. It takes so much time, trying to sound more important than it really...

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418514

B&N Synopsis:

Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks...

Author	George R.R. Martin
ISBN	1596872837

Buddyread with John Goode, John's review here :)
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This one had its moments (Croyd, Tachyon, Brennan)but overall, I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first volume. Why? Get to that in a minute or so.

Positive:

We get to see Croyd again... though not nearly enough
New...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0743498259

When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having...

Author

Alexander Volkov

Сказочная повесть Александра Волкова, написанная в 1939 и являющаяся переработкой сказки Фрэнка Баума «Удивительный Волшебник из Страны Оз» (The Wonderful...

Author	Craig Shaw Gardner
ISBN	0441516629

Picked this up off a book swap shelf at a railway station, and now I understand why it was left there. Complete rubbish.

The blurbs on the back cover claim readers will "laugh down the walls" and that "the field needs more humorists of this calibre". No, it really doesn't. The attempted humour...

Author	John DeChancie
ISBN	0759231982

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

Castle Perilous is a giant castle with 144,000 rooms that are portals to other worlds. These portals are constantly shifting in and out of other dimensions and occasionally they temporarily open up somewhere on Earth. At those times people may stumble...

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345318854

Reading Piers Anthony can be a bit of a bumpy ride.

His books usually feature some minor detours into ploddyville and at least one horrible sightseeing escapade through skeevytown that leaves you feeling soiled and very uncomfortable.

So I grant you that there is definitely potential...