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I have literally never felt like I wanted any book to be shorter...? Whereas I am frequently left wanting more. Sometimes from the...

I definitely prefer shorter works to longer. Not that I don't think the world of certain long-form works. But for me, a book really...

I cannot imagine such a life. You must be blessed to never be confronted with persons - writers or not - who are babbling on and on...

Precisely so. Thieves World presents a squalid, gritty world with troubled, morally conflicted protagonists. Xanth presents as a...

The problematic elements of Xanth, IMO, are that Piers Anthony is talking to an intended audience of kids with ideas that start with...

It's funny, Thieves World has more mature content, but despite having read both it and the Xanth series around the age of 9-10, I feel...

Hoo boy . . . yes, parenting in the 80s was a combo of parents not keeping up with societal changes and also being more "hands off" . ...

Unfortunately true. I also get the feeling that there wasn't a lot of oversight (at least, not from my parents) as to what was behind...

Sci-fi and fantasy literature in the 80s was marginalized. For instance, there was a lot of splash in the Waldenbooks I frequented, but...

Ah, thanks! David Eddings was a child abuser, he did real harm in the real world. Piers Anthony wrote a lot of creepy stuff into his...

Like, I know the past is a foreign country and all, but it astonishes me that they were marketed as kids books.

lol! I read so much Piers Anthony as a teenager, and they are hard books to revisit.

I think most of us can agree that Piers needs therapy.

Doing post-mortems on campaigns and sessions that failed is important. Had I learned to do that sooner, I would've had fewer failed...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #99 in July 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features magic...