Piers Anthony listened for four hours to the kid's life story, why he was so unhappy that he ran away. Anthony gave him some life advice. The kid couldn't stay, of course. Anthony called the kid's mother. The kid did stay for the night, though, so he got his wish for a day.
And while the fantasy wasn't fulfilled for…

Funny coincidence that just a few hours later I listened to episode 470 of This American Life. It contained a story about a kid who was a fan of the books of Piers Anthony. He ran away to visit his idol with the plan to live on his farm. The runaway kid was as obsessive a fan as Quentin was of Plover. He came to the…

The supposed adults, like the teachers, don't come across as auch either, really. This show is adolescent through and through.

The taking down the idol aspect wasn't exactly…subtle. I'm all for killing your idols, but it's something else how the idol was portrayed here, as the worst piece of shit imaginable. I think it would have been much more sensible to portay the author as flawed in a human way than as such a monster.
While everything is…

This was comical! So the revered author is a serial rapist, probably the main villiain, and his sister ties the kids up and stitches their mouth shut. And casually kills them. The scene where the author made naughty pictures of Marten really reminded me of Butterfly Effect, which was similarly over the top.