Some of his older stuff was actually fairly good, but by the 1990s the quality had plummeted. I was so disappointed when I picked up the eighth book in the Incarnations of Immortality series, published through some minor company I'd never heard of 17 years after the previous book. Much of the action (I can't even honestly call it a plot) literally amounted to: 1). protagonist walks down road. 2). random encounter. 3). encounter quickly resolved. 4). go to 1.
His Xanth series has apparently gotten so bad that Wikipedia's Piers Anthony bibliography hasn't even generated pages for the most recent nine books, just the names and publication dates. Which means not one single person has bothered to do so over the last six years.
His Xanth series has apparently gotten so bad that Wikipedia's Piers Anthony bibliography hasn't even generated pages for the most recent nine books, just the names and publication dates. Which means not one single person has bothered to do so over the last six years.
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.