Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Piers Anthony-Xanth (spoiler!) Message-ID: <1207@shark.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:37:51 EST Article-I.D.: shark.1207 Posted: Tue Jan 8 03:37:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:34:24 EST References: <179@uw70.UUCP> Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 15 Summary:"Crewel Lye" (Piers Anthony) isn't really his best effort. More puns than ever (not always very good ones though), and he is very slowly becoming less of a male chauvinist, but the story is disjointed at the beginning and end, the characterization is uneven in Jordan's narrative, and rather repetitious with Jordan being too similar to Bink. The use of different perspectives across the series just barely manages to keep Anthony from rewriting the same story over and over again. I would have preferred it if they'd release "Bearing an Hourglass" in paper cover rather than yet another Xanth book. Hutch