>
> Can anyone give me a good reason (without
> spoiling anything) why I should continue
> to read (and complete) Piers Anthony's
> Xanth series? I'm only on book 4 (Centaur
> Aisle), but I'm beginning to grow bored of
> all the repetition. If I had a nickel*(egrep "repast|demenses" $Xanth_books | wc -l),
> I'd be very rich, indeed.
>
> But seriously, I am beginning to wonder whether
> or not I'm wasting my time on a dead-end series?
>
> Any conjecture? (aside from "read the Book-a-Minute entry on Xanth")
>
> Thanks. :-)

Well... I think that I've read, erm, maybe 17 of them *looks around sheepishly*. I dunno, I read them off and on for a couple of years before I just got completely and totally bored with them. The fact that there's MORE than 17 of the books should say a thing or two (I think at my last count its at like 23 or 24, though there's probably more now). They are repetitive but there are some ones that I think were worth reading. If you're bored at 4 I'd say stop. IMO the series picked up again at the "second trilogy" (I think it starts with "Man From Mundania" -- book 9?), so maybe you'd be interested in reading that one. Or if you're just interested in a particular character, figure out what book is his/hers, I think they pretty much all get a starring role sooner or later...