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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Piers Anthony has long been my favourite author. His screwed up sense of humour is what got me into reading in the first place. And really, who else can write an entire book about what colour of panties a mermaid will choose as the central question in a wager with a Demon for one's soul? The first 15 Xanth books are classics. 
Other great Anthony books: Battle Circle, Tatham Mound (a historical fiction, very good), Total Recall (the movie seems lame compared to his novel - which was written after the movie), Incarnations of Immortality series - gotta love a biography of Satan. |
I'll give you Battle circle and Incarnations of Time... they are decent books and I may have to re-read battle circle now that you have reminded me of it. But unless you're trying to get your kid into reading for the first time or you are a kid your self your not going to enjoy the Xanth series much as an adult... certainly not past book 1 or 2. I'll give it nostalgic nod as I read them when I was about 14ish, but even at that age I think I was tired of the unrelenting theme and didn't find them Punny, er.. funny after the 8 or 9th book max... even those I think I read simply because I had read the previous ones. They do not compare with series like the Wheel of Time or the Shannara series imho.
If you are a kid or looking to get your kid into reading I would recommend the Myth books by Robert Asprin, I think I stopped at book 5 or 6 but it was the first series I ever read and got me reading period.
Book #1 http://www.amazon.ca/Another-Fine-My...0185331&sr=1-1
If you have not read the Memory Sorry and Thorn Series I'd highly recomend it as well.
http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_ss_b?u...rrow+and+thorn