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Summary: A very good novel
Review: I am a very avid reader of Anthony's works, and this is probably the best of his first works. Though the series is streching 7 times the planned trilogy, it began good, and you have to admit that. But there's a rule to this book: If you can't put up with puns, stay out of Xanth. The story is about how Bink, with no magic talent, (everyone born in Xanth has one) is exiled into the world we know and love, Mundania. Quaint notion. Along the way for a last atempt for a talent, he has an adventure, and that is the course of the book. Read it, you'll like it.
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Summary: The Best Novel Ever
Review: I loved this novel from the first day that I read it. Everything is great about it. The adventures that only last as long as the chapter don't make the book seem to last so long, and the plot is all at once easy to follow and complex. This book started me on the long road to reading that I still tread today. A must have for any one who loves to read.
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Summary: Is the best book I ever read
Review: I loved this book out of all the Xanth books! It never got boring and always surprised you when you thought you fiqured it out. If you love fantasy you will be sucked into Piers Anthony wonderful fantasy land.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: A good book for a light read. Not his best novel but its fairly good and I enjoyed it. :)
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Summary: Light fantasy, good for the young audience.
Review: This book is, by itself, quite good. As a total series, the Xanth books are good for the younger audiences. There are, however, and as noted by a reader above, sexual inuendoes, so a parent may wish to review each book before all a child to read it. I personally read them at ten and loved them. They were one of the series that got me started on fantasy. However, having aged four years and my tastes changed, I realize that they are very light fantasy. Every once in a while when I feel a need for a fast and fun adventure, I may pick up a book in the series and read it and a few others. Xanth is not, however, a deep and insightful series, merely a good adventure. Don't let Xanth restrict your later reading.
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Summary: The is one of the worst SF novels ever.
Review: It is not so much because of this book, but because of the series that follows that I gave this book such a poor review. This book, bursting over with some of the smallest-minded puns imaginable is a work of what I believe is Science Fiction's Horatio Alger. Piers Anthony relies upon the hormones of his teenage audience when he writes in the sexual innuendo that has been one of the main reasons for the success of his novels. Furthermore, this novel, like all Piers Anthony novels, has a very easily predictable plot (it would be nice if the hero didn't always get laid by the end of the novel). Look, for all you young Science Fiction fans out there, the 11,12,13 year old guys who just starting to really get into this genre, stay away from this guy. You'll regret ever picking up one of his novels in your 20's (heck I sure do).
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Summary: This book was great!!!!!!
Review: Piers Anthony has really outdone himself with this book. It has many puns and a great ammount of magic.
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Summary: A GLORIOUS novel from a BRILLIANT author!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Definately the best novel of the sci-fi genre, and quite possibly the best novel ever written! It has everything! You'll find humor, action, romance, drama, fantasy, plain, honest fun, and much, MUCH MORE! Hmmm... It's too bad the grading scale doesn't go above 10. It deserves at least a 72 on this scale! This is the book that started it all, and although it's true, the Xanth novels DO get a little weaker as they progress along the 21 (so far) volume set, in NO WAY do they become anywhere NEAR boring or trying. This book is sure to envelop and enrapture you, and plant the seeds of your addiction to Xanth if you give it a try! Mr. Anthony is the GREATEST!!!! Never has there been a more delightfully realistic, yet captivatingly fictional place as Xanth, and Anthony brings it to life in such a way that you will SWEAR that Xanth really exists. No other author could ever create a more splendid and felicitous story as A Spell for Chameleon, try as they may...
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Summary: this book rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book rocks!!!!! It was recomended to me by a friend, i read it the recomended it to my family and other friendsI It is the single most BEST book I've ever read and I would recomend It to any one! Peirs Anthony is a genious!!!!
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Summary: This is the one that started it all!
Review: This is the first Piers Anthony book I read, in Junior High School in 1986 for a book report. By the time the book report was due, I had finished this book, the second Xanth book, and the first two books of the Incarnations of Immortality series. I have read nearly everything Anthony has written until a few years ago. READ THIS BOOK! You will not be disappointed, and you will never look back
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