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> I've read xanth since the age of 11 by my brothers book of "heaven cent". That particular book at that time gave me a spark of interest into the whole string of books. Of which, I still read and collect up to today at the age of 21.

Funny, that particular book killed my interest in Xanth.

Being an orderly sort of person, I wanted to read the series in, well, yes, order. My local library obliged me by having all the books in order *except* it did not have Heaven Cent. By the time I got myself down to the bookstore to *buy* Heaven Cent, so I could continue with the series, I realized that I wasn't really sufficiently interested to shell out the $5.95.
Not that I can write better, mind you, but it would just be another set of puns, a puzzle or two, a romance with yes, the petulantly flawed female and the cornered/puzzled male...well, at that point not worth $5.95 to me.

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At this time though, I find that a line will be drawn in which I will fade from continued intense interest in the current novels he has. As well as everyone else should find that line and move on.

...like you say, time to move on.

Plus, I had read his non-fiction book (sorry, I don't remember the title) about his correspondence and relationship with the real-life
little girl his character "Jenny the Elf" is based on. Real-life Jenny is a fan who was hit by a drunk driver and suffers brain damage as a result. Now perhaps the proceeds from the book are contributed to her upkeep and care or something (noble and nice)..but somehow I walked away from that book feeling like she had been exploited somehow. It would have been better to just donate part of the proceeds of the Xanth Jenny-the-Elf book rather than to write instead what came off as a sort of self-serving ego trip. I'm sure he didn't mean it that way.

Plus, the author's notes in some of the Xanth books were beginning to creep me out.
As with other authors, seems the less I know about their personal lives, the more I'm able to enjoy their books.

koala"just finished David Brin's _Otherness_"mom