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The Source of Magic (Xanth, #2)
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Piers does it again!
Bink is a great character and I'm sorry he won't be the main character past this book. I love Piers' creativity and also the moral problems he makes the characters face. This is a much different kind of adventure tale: Bink must grapple with forces on both an elemental and universal scale, and make choices which affect not just him, and not just his friends, but all of Xanth!
I really enjoy Piers' quirky attitudes towards women and all of his descriptions of female physical characteristics and stuff like that...it brings me back to my younger, more immature days and the crassness makes me laugh! Folks are trying so hard to be right these days when it comes to depicting the sexes and gender that I think we're missing how funny it is to be wrong! Part of the thrill of this book and Piers' writing are those moments when you think to yourself, "Wow, I can't believe he wrote that!" Personally, I could go on and on defending his writing and his depictions on multiple levels, but those are my opinions and I won't force that upon anyone.
I think if you don't like the book, you shouldn't read it. I think that if you enjoy some of it, you'll be rewarded for where it ends up and just the sheer imagination of it all. I was struck by how much I want to see these first two Xanth novels onscreen--I think the scenes, the conflicts, the characters, the magic are all so far ahead of all other fantasy adaptations in the marketplace that it's ridiculous. Are folks REALLY choosing between Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and vampires/werewoves?? Ive read books by Piers Anthony which manage to incorporate everything in those series and more! (to be clear LOTR is a great series, but Peter Jackson's adaptations of that and the Hobbit are nothing more than average for me, and a bit below that--I feel they miss a great deal of the spirit of those books and what make them so popular and timeless).
ANyway, check this out if you've read A Spell for Chameleon and are into that sort of thing
Bink is a great character and I'm sorry he won't be the main character past this book. I love Piers' creativity and also the moral problems he makes the characters face. This is a much different kind of adventure tale: Bink must grapple with forces on both an elemental and universal scale, and make choices which affect not just him, and not just his friends, but all of Xanth!
I really enjoy Piers' quirky attitudes towards women and all of his descriptions of female physical characteristics and stuff like that...it brings me back to my younger, more immature days and the crassness makes me laugh! Folks are trying so hard to be right these days when it comes to depicting the sexes and gender that I think we're missing how funny it is to be wrong! Part of the thrill of this book and Piers' writing are those moments when you think to yourself, "Wow, I can't believe he wrote that!" Personally, I could go on and on defending his writing and his depictions on multiple levels, but those are my opinions and I won't force that upon anyone.
I think if you don't like the book, you shouldn't read it. I think that if you enjoy some of it, you'll be rewarded for where it ends up and just the sheer imagination of it all. I was struck by how much I want to see these first two Xanth novels onscreen--I think the scenes, the conflicts, the characters, the magic are all so far ahead of all other fantasy adaptations in the marketplace that it's ridiculous. Are folks REALLY choosing between Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and vampires/werewoves?? Ive read books by Piers Anthony which manage to incorporate everything in those series and more! (to be clear LOTR is a great series, but Peter Jackson's adaptations of that and the Hobbit are nothing more than average for me, and a bit below that--I feel they miss a great deal of the spirit of those books and what make them so popular and timeless).
ANyway, check this out if you've read A Spell for Chameleon and are into that sort of thing
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Started Reading
August 11, 2015
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Finished Reading
August 13, 2015
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