Xanth: The Quest for Magic
10 best books like Xanth: The Quest for Magic (Piers Anthony): The Elric Saga Part II, Myth-ing Persons / Little Myth Marker, The Wizardry Consulted, The Malloreon Boxed Set: Guardians of the West / King of the Murgos / Demon Lord of Karanda / Sorceress of Darshiva / The Seeress of Kell, The Lost Swords: The Second Triad, The Sword of Truth Gift Set, On a Pale Horse, Her Majesty's Wizard, The Moment of the Magician, Return to Centaur
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1568650418 |
2011 re-read:
The Vanishing Tower: Elric and Moonglum continues their quest to destroy the sorcerer Theleb K'aarna, visiting Myshella's castle, Nadsokor, the city of beggars, Tanelorn, and the Forest of Troos...
The saga of Elric continues moving toward its conclusion. Elric meets...
| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0441009530 |
Again this is two-books-in-one, which makes it a bit harder to review than otherwise. I also find that my reactions to them were very different. I had read them before, I think one time and certainly not more than twice, and remembered some of that, which had some impact on my appreciation. It is the fifth...
| Author | Rick Cook |
| ISBN | 0671877003 |
An ancient and very powerful dragon made a proposition to Wiz which cannot be refused: save people who live close to dragon lands from dragons, or face a destruction of the capital of northern wizards. What is more, Wiz cannot use any outside help. It also seems people he is supposed to help do not care about...
| Author | David Eddings |
| ISBN | 0345379888 |
Fairly standard fantasy that nonetheless manages to differantiate itself from the crowd by way of it's light, often humorous and self-aware tone.
The Malloreon is in many ways very, very similar to it's predecessor, the Belgariad. In another series, this could be a crippling weakness, but...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 1568650124 |
This is an omnibus, so I'm going to review the individual books as I go.
Farslayer's Story:
Farslayer's is a Romeo and Juliet, or maybe Hatfield and McCoy story. Farslayer, of course, is the sword that will fly off and kill anyone you care to name. The problem arises when the victim's...
| Author | Terry Goodkind |
| ISBN | 0312875037 |
The first two books in this series were great, as was Faith of the Fallen, book six. Books 3-5 were mediocre in plot and impact, and everything after Faith of the Fallen, books 7-end, were absolutely horrendous, and showed just what a terrible thing it can be for someone to take Ayn Rand too seriously. While...
| Author | Scott Rockwell |
| ISBN | 1565210174 |
I Really liked the first book and i swear when i read the 6th book For The Love of evil between pages 13-35 it told me about a book that was older than the almanac and used magic in a more potent practical way than what the almanac uses it was incredible and it was from the year 900-1100 roughly about the time 1250...
| Author | Christopher Stasheff |
| ISBN | 0345274563 |
I had truly loved this book when I was younger, and forgotten both the author and title, and in fact everything about it except that it was a fantasy book in which magic works by poetry (a concept I still believe to be excellent). Unfortunately, little besides the concept has stood the test, not of time,...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 5555661347 |
The series is beginning to drag
4 February 2012
I guess the Spellsinger series are beginning to drag on by this time. As I mentioned previously, one of the main reasons that I continued reading them was because I wanted to see if Talea would return, but I guess by the time I reached this book...
| Author | Richard Pini |
| ISBN | 0936861207 |
This is hands down one of the weirdest things I have ever read. Like Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz in an ostensibly "classic" fantasy setting, full of puns and weird humor. Digging around the concept of Xanth to better understand what I was reading, I decided that the broader work of Piers Anthony...
last Prequel i was really disappointed.
This prequel was amazing!! the devils might just have the best voice of all the characters in the whole series. I just enjoy his point of POV on the issue and the fact that he is more parental then any other character in the book ( and he chides himself for it too)....
| Author | William Sarabande |
| ISBN | 0553258028 |
As the Stone Age slowly gives way to the age of Bronze, a proud warrior clan faces the challenge of a new life in an alien land.
Led by the great chieftain Fomor, once called the Wolf of the Western Tribes, the clan MacLir knows the limits of stone against the strange new weapons of their sworn enemy,...
