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Summary: This is an excellent book for teenage readers.
Review: I first picked up the Xanth series because so many of my middle school students were reading them. They have definate appeal for youth as the books explore the themes of personal strength, and self discovery. The story moves quickly, and the word play is fun. Parents and teachers, this series is a great way to interest young people in reading. Since it is obstensively an adult book, it is probably best for confident readers.
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Summary: The greatest adventure in all of Xanth.
Review: I LOVED this book. It is perhaps the greatest book I've ever read, most certainly the best Xanth book I've read (i've read all of them). I highly reccomend this book for Xanth fans, and for those of you who haven't read Xanth, read A Spell for Chameleon first!
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Summary: I didn't leave my room for weeks (well...maybe once)
Review: I read these books when I was eleven or twelve and am seventeen now, so I remember the basic themes, but not much detail. All I know is that once I started the first book during my summer vacation, I sat in my room, didn't take phone calls, and finished the series within a few weeks. Sounds geeky eh? well the funny thing is that I barely read before that. These books are amazing! imaginative! a MUST READ(s). Piers Anthony is a big ole G!
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Summary: Best imagation I've seen....Gotta love those PUNS
Review: I recently started rereading the Xanth series. I started reading them when I was in High School many years ago in Florida. A lot of memories was relived. Piers Anthony has the best imagination I've seen and read. From start to finish, it was hard to put down. It makes you wish that there was really a Land of Xanth and that you had an awesome magicial talent.
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Summary: Very entertaining read. Not your usual fantasy novel.
Review: I started off reading "Spell for Chameleon" and quickly grew to like Piers Anthony's writing. This book is good too, though it doesn't have as exciting an adventure as the first one. I like his humor (eye scream, et al) and although it can get a bit corny it always makes me laugh. If I can say one thing about PA's books it is that they are more humorful and light-hearted than other fantasy novels I've read.
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Summary: Very good
Review: I've kind of grown out of these books, but when I was discovering the world of paperbacks this series was my favorite, and I guess it's still worth reading even as an adult. This book is my favorite out of the entire (huge) series of which I have not read the last 5 or 6. These days, Piers Anthony seems only to use his writing as an outlet for his now blatantly obvious pedophilia (there is a tryst between an adult man and a 10-13 year old girl in every almost every single book since the mid-to-late eighties, and he spends about half the text trying to find new and interesting ways to justify the man's lechery). I wouldn't want to be one of his two daughters
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Summary: Two magical thumbs up!
Review: If you like Fantasy/Science Fiction, and you haven't tried Piers Anthony's Xanth Novels, then don't delay... This is a book for kids from the age of twelve to ninety-two. You'll enjoy witty puns and magical talents, mystery and adventure, Bink and Chester... I give this novel a weel-rated five stars for leaving me unable to set it down. Enjoy it by yourself or read it to your children as a bedtime story.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: If you liked "A Spell for Chameleon", you'll also like "The Source of Magic"; I actually think that the second book is slightly better. There were several passages that caused me to laugh out loud, something that I rarely do. Anthony provides his usual feast of adventure, entertainment, and terrible puns. I'd recommend this too anybody.One final note: it doesn't really matter what order you read the Xanth novels in, although there are a few places in "The Source of Magic" that might seem a little confusing if you haven't read "A Spell for Chameleon."
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: If you liked "A Spell for Chameleon", you'll also like "The Source of Magic"; I actually think that the second book is slightly better. There were several passages that caused me to laugh out loud, something that I rarely do. Anthony provides his usual feast of adventure, entertainment, and terrible puns. I'd recommend this too anybody. One final note: it doesn't really matter what order you read the Xanth novels in, although there are a few places in "The Source of Magic" that might seem a little confusing if you haven't read "A Spell for Chameleon."
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Summary: A fair book, but you could spend your time better
Review: If you're looking at this book, I assume you've just finished "A Spell for Chameleon" and enjoyed it. Well, this book is okay, but not really nearly as good as the first one, and why would you want to read it when there's 30 more Zanth books out there, five or six of which are actually really good? I'd recommend "Castle Roogna," which follows Dor, Bink's son, "Ogre, Ogre" (although if you can't stand rhyming speech, run, run, run! from that one) "Night Mare," and by far the best of the Zanth Series, the cute and up lifting story, "Dragon on a Pedestal." One way or another though, you could spend you time better than reading The Source of Magic.
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