> 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.

For my money, the series goes seriously downhill after "Ogre, Ogre" (I think that's book six). 'Course, most people will say it goes down before that, but I was rather partial to that one. If you're bored with the repitition, though, forget continuing. It will not prove worthwhile.

I have to vote with Faux Pas about the "Incarnations" series, though I have a serious issue with his treatment of "For Love of Evil." Though I agree that "And Eternity" was a waste of six trillion pages (or however long the blkoody thing is), "For Love of Evil" was my favorite of the series (Well, a couple chapters in the middle suck rocks, but I like most of it). I also adored "Bearing an Hourglass" and "With a Tangled Skein."

Dar "Man From Mundania" ien