oh, no. I read the Xanth books way before I had any consciousness of being a female entity (I also loved Heinlein unreservedly and found nothing problematic in any of his books...), and after a number of them, even *I* was like ‘ok, I can’t even.’ Unlike Heinlein (R.I.P. credulous younger me [still so much love, but…

I don’t know if I read that series, but I know my Piers. Dude has some preoccupations that are troubling.

Man, he’s been on my ‘to read’ list for years now. This sucks, but I guess it clears up space for other stuff I could never get to.

I’m pretty sure I have it in the attic after buying it when it came out. Note to self - dispose of.

My brain, upon reading your comment: Piers Morgan wrote a book that has pedophilia in it? Seems legit.

Piers Anthony’s EVERYTHING, to be honest. Firefly was creepy enough that I didn’t finish it (or even really start it... I think I read one chapter in a Walgreens and noped the heck out), but at least it was targeted to adults. Xanth and those Apprentice Adept books were targeted to tweens/teens. That was the age I…

Flattery will get you everywhere. :)

I’m wondering if I should feel bad for liking the Incarnations of Immortality series now...though it was pretty clear from “Under a Velvet Cloak” he had a weird obsession with writing about sex...

I haven’t read that one but I’ve read enough of his other stuff when I was young and stupid to know that yes, I do not need to google that.

I’m sorry.

Yes for you especially I would say you should skip it.

Yeah it just goes to show just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it. But just how young she was really really throws up some red flags. As for how i’m in the greys I don’t know why it really seems like luck is the only way to get ungreyed.

My school library was pretty short on scifi, but they had virtually everything Piers Anthony had ever written as of the early 90's so I read it all. I was at a bookstore a couple years back that had a huge box of Xanth novels for 75 cents each, so I grabbed an armful for nostalgia’s sake. Skeevy skeevy skeevy. Way…

Googled it, wish I hadn’t. :(

Same - I read all the Xanth books as a kid and loved them, and then I re-read a bunch of them (plus the Incarnations of Immortality and the Apprentice Adept ones) as an adult and I was suuuuuuuper grossed out by his depictions of literally anything related to gender and sex, and now I’m concerned about how much that…

Ugh, remember that one character in the Incarnations books who was, like, thirteen, and he made a HUGE, ENORMOUS deal of how she was underage and fell in love with a fifty year old judge? And she went into some kind of time riff or something so when she comes out only a few hours have passed for her but now she’s…

*believes in Jokey*

Between this, Top of the Lake: China Doll, Handmaid’s Tale and Doctor Foster season 2 I am feeling downright spoiled. Is this what it’s like to be a white man where every piece of media is made for your consumption?

Cat ass trophy?

Waaaooohhhhh I did not know about this! I was really into the Xanth novels as a kid, what did I miss?!