What was the horse’s name in “On A Pale Horse.”
It’s been a while, but IIRC the horse was named Mortis. But don’t quote me on that. Loved that series, but for some reason never read And Eternity. Did it all end well?
As well as anything Anthony writes does, I suppose.
And yes, Death’s transport was named ‘mortis’, whether in horse or corvette form.
Mortis.
–Cliffy
Uh, or possibly Rio, by Duran Duran. :eek:
–Cliffy
It ended with all the interwoven relationships you would have expected. All seven of the incantations were either family, intermarried or BF/GF into the family. A strange way to run a cosmos.
Nepotism?
I read that series. “On a Pale Horse” was pretty entertaining. Each successive installment got weaker. The ones about the Time and Mother Nature I found nearly unreadable.
Yeah, it’s when he got into his inevitable (for Anthony) defense of sex with children that it started to all get really creepy. The first books were okay.
Recently offloaded most of my Anthony books (outgrew him I guess) This is one of his series that I actually kept. Good series, shame about books 5 (Nature) and 7 (Good). 1 (Death) & 6 (Evil) were my favourites. Wonder what that says about me 
I’d heard about this elsewhere. Out of weird fascination… Cite?
I do not have the books anymore, and really have no desire to look up the particular pages. Nonetheless, if someone else is willing, I remember an important character (the “judge” I believe) who was fascinated with “young flesh” and kept going on about how there was really nothing wrong with sex between old men and something like 14 year old children.
Kept going on (and similar themes popped up in other books) in that really disturbing way where you start to believe that the author is not merely explaining a character’s point of view, but throwing out the justification argument for wrongful acts that he believes in himself.
There’s also a scene in The Caterpillar’s Question where the main character has sex with a 13-year-old girl (a mentally retarded one too, IIRC) and justifies it by saying they’ve gone through a portal to some weird dimension, where there’s no taboo about pedophilia. Even though (again IIRC – I read it a long time ago), I don’t believe they’ve actually met anyone from the new dimension yet, and it doesn’t change them in any way.
–Cliffy
Read Firefly at one entire section is about how a girl was abused by her brother and father (brother through molesting her with candlesticks the father by almost making her touch his genitals.) she however finds solace in a neighborhood molester that then gets to have sex with her as much as he wants. When he gets caught everyone is horrified that they have to send this poor soul to jail after all he was just helping out but mandatory laws sends him away to die in prison.
That’s pretty much it. In the end, the young character spent several nights in Purgatory. For eac night spent there a year passed real time, so she became legal, even though subjectively she was still underage. Just one of the reasons I dislike book 7
I think I made it up to halfway through War before I gave up on the series.
Shame…I found the first few terrific…
Sounds like Flowers In The Attic. Incest was a very prevalent theme, and was presented in such a manner that I wonder whether certain elements of that story might be autobiographical in nature, if you catch my meaning :eek:
You might have misremembered or simply phrased what you were trying to state imprecisely. I will step in to clarify that the judge definitely did not keep going on about how there was really nothing wrong, etcetera. In fact, he was portrayed as an individual who was struggling against a temptation which he very definitely felt was wrong and immoral in several senses.
It was the young girl, who also had a crush on him, who was constantly making arguments that there was really nothing wrong with whatever they might do, as long as they both wanted it and nobody was being coerced or deceived.
I’m not going to say anything else except that I wasn’t aware of a few of the other cites posted on this thread, and I think it’s a bit of a shame that the sex with children meme has become “inevitably” associated with him, when there are a lot of piers anthony books that have nothing whatsoever to do with it. shrugs
Well, my memory is that he got over his “struggle,” (which I recall as a pretty thin veneer for Anthony to present the “normal” point of view so he could strike it down) and thereafter had very little issue with banging the young nubile flesh.
Or did he in the end decide against it? Did he end up advocating against it? I think the answer to both is no, in fact, my memory is pretty solid that he ended up realizing (through the help of the nymphette) that it was all good.
Umm… no, he did get over the struggle, but my point was that his character was never vocally advocating the whole thing. In fact, even after the ‘banging’ began, he was still characterized as somewhat tortured and guilty about it, I think, until the legal loophole someone else mentioned had done its work, which pretty much quieted his objections. shrugs.