Anthony, Piers

• Series: Apprentice Adept
  • Split Infinity (6 r)
  • Blue Adept (6 r)
  • Juxtaposition (6 r)

    • There are more books, continuing this series, but I have only the first three. I really enjoyed these when I first read them (but bear in mind, I was 13 at the time). Probably the strongest part of the books is the description of the Games that are played (sort of an ongoing Amateur Olympics). Still, Anthony has this fixation on descriptions of gorgeous, usually mostly naked women, which is fine if you consider his target audience. I wouldn't read this again, but I liked it at the time.

• Series: Bio of a Space Tyrant
  • Refugee (7 r)
  • Mercenary (6 r)
  • Politician (6 r)
  • Executive (5 r)
  • Statesman (4 r)

    • I liked these books pretty well. The plot holds together throughout the books, and there are some good (if rehashed) sci-fi ideas present here as well as a bleak outlook of life on Jupiter. Definitely worth looking for at, say, a used bookstore. You can almost guess the plots from the book titles.

• Series: Incarnations of Immortality
  • On a Pale Horse (7 r)
  • Bearing an Hourglass (5 r)
  • With a Tangled Skein (6 r)
  • Wielding a Red Sword (6 r)
  • Being a Green Mother (5 r)
  • For Love of Evil (5 r)
  • And Eternity (4 r)

    • The first book of this series held great promise and is an entertaining stand-alone look at the way Death works in Anthony's alternate world. The 2nd book was all right, and then the rest were just kinda there. One of my former roomates really liked "Green Mother," but I never liked any of them nearly as much as the first. My advice is buy one at a time until you lose interest.

• Series: Xanth
  • A Spell for Chameleon (6 r)
  • The Source of Magic (6 r)
  • Castle Roogna (7 r)
  • Centaur Isle (4 r)
  • Ogre, Ogre (3 r)

    • Another of Anthony's series I read in my early teens. I liked this one pretty well, especially the first three. There are lots more after Castle Roogna, though, and I only bought the first two before running out of gas with this series. Anthony's fixation on writing about young, mostly naked, sexually starved, gorgeous women must have reached a high point (as it were) with his eventual "The Color of Her Panties," but thankfully I quit about 8 books before that one came out. My advice is read the first three if you're looking for something light.

      Anthony really strikes a chord with some readers, make no mistake. This is one reason he dominates the shelves at a lot of bookstores. You should probably read at least one of his books at some point just to see what all the fuss is about. You may like him better than I did.

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