Faun & Games

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Summary: i thought this book was excellent pun-filled excitement!
Review: Faun and games was one of my favorite books in the Xanth series. If you enjoyed this book, you should think about buying the rest.

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Summary: Two thumbs up!
Review: Great, I just loved it. I myself am a Piers Anthony fan, and I have to admit that I think that this is his greatest masterpiece ever! Intriguing storyline, sexy, yet naive characters, and a whole lot of punish fun. I wouldn't consider this book appropriate for all ages, considering some of the VERY close encounters in this book. The concept of traveling into a different world is an attention-getter, considering that most of his works only involve Xanth and Mundania. This is probaly the best BOOK that I've ever read!

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Summary: Very Pleasing Fantasy Adventure
Review: I am a huge Piers Anthony fan. Faun & Games was a delightful story, but it became a bit hard to follow from moon to moon. The concept of Ida's moon is a bit more far fetched than most of Pier's story lines. All in all it was a wonderful book.

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Summary: An avid readers thoughts
Review: I am an avid Anthony reader, though only a young teenager, and I have read all his Xanth, Incarnation, and most of his adept sieries. This Xanth novel has been one of the more unique ones I hve seen in some time. I was also interested in how each "moon" had its own personality when it came to trading and life.

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Summary: A Change of Setting!!!
Review: I am an avid reader of Piers' Xanth, Mode, Incarnations, and Adept series, but this was one of his best books so far. Forrest Faun goes to the Good Magician to find a replacement for his friend (who wandered into the Void.) Magician Humfrey sets him up with Mare Imbrium and gives them a spell to take them to Ptero, the moon orbiting Princess Ida's head. His quest takes him through progressing moons: namely Ptero, Pyramid, Torus, and (almost) Cone. I gave this four stars because after a while, you start thinking "Not another moon!" I loved Ogre, Ogre, mostly because it introduced the gourd,which became the basis for many of the future books. I hope that Ida's moons will become much the same.

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Summary: Please, no more!
Review: I began reading Anthony when I was thirteen, and I thought thatit was just great. Over the next couple of years, I read every bookin his two Xanth series, and I had to wait for over a year before Icould read Faun and Games. I was sixteen by that time, and when I began to read it, I felt sick. I am so tired of all of his female characters being either beautiful and stupid, or ugly and a genius. And the male characters, even those that are truly unintelligent, always manage to be more clever than the women. This series did once have a fun, escapist quality to them, which made them funny, and a nice way to avoid real life for a few hours. But his novels have steadily gone downhill, and have now fallen so far in terms of quality that I can't even justify reading them anymore... The story line is overrun with useless puns, which are now completely unbearable, and the sudden appearance of these moons is a desperate attempt to keep [the] readers' attention in a series that has steadily lost it's originality. He ruined Mare Imbri, who was always one of my favorites by taking her out of her horse form, and giving her such lines as "I am femalishly curious." When I read that I almost threw the book down then and there. This author has created a low-brow man's paradise, with all of the female characters being nothing more than idiotic nymphs that always end up with their clothes off. ...It was simply a poorly written book with pathetic dialogue, a sad excuse for a storyline, and with one-dimensional characters that you could never find yourself caring about.

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Summary: Read Before You Speak
Review: I cannot believe so many people gave this book such bad reviews. Obviously they were paying more attention to the puns (which admittedly are beginning to overrun the books) than to the storyline. As for those who believe the characters have no depth - Imbri and Forrest have more depth than many real people. I myself think the the idea of Ida's moons upon moons, each with it's own landscape and cast of characters, was very imaginative and I hope he will expand on it in future Xanth Novels. I like the romance between species and hope that will be continued as well. Keep going, Piers Anthony, you're the best!

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Summary: Too many puns...otherwise good story
Review: I enjoyed the premise of the book, as I almost always do with Piers Anthony's Xanth books. But there are just getting to be too many puns. The obvious plot devices (like the comic strip) that serve as simply a way to work in all of the puns that the fans send in, is just too much.

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Summary: Too many puns...otherwise good story
Review: I enjoyed the premise of the book, as I almost always do with Piers Anthony's Xanth books. But there are just getting to be too many puns. The obvious plot devices (like the comic strip) that serve as simply a way to work in all of the puns that the fans send in, is just too much.

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Summary: Piers Anthony - What more can u say other than fantastic!!
Review: I have been reading Piers Anthony's books since I was 10 and I still love them 15 years later. Faun and Games was exceptionally written and the introduction of the new "planets" was a stroke of genius. The planets could open up way more ideas and stories. The usual twist of having a non-human(faun) show human traits and fall in love with a completely different type was great. I look forward to more and more Xanth novels as Piers continues to write them.