# Xanth fans! Be not ashamed! REVEAL THYSELVES!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338 "2005-01-29T23:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338/61 "2005-02-01T15:17:33Z")
To be fair, the vine around Smash’s head really didn’t do anything. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338/62 "2005-02-02T05:02:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It may even come from the character’s brain, but in that case, the brain is always treated as some sort of bizarre entity separate from the character. So the author has written himself into his books, is that what you’re saying? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338/63 "2005-02-03T05:27:05Z")
My [Freaked out by Piers Anthony](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41202&highlight=Piers+Anthony) thread, from almost 4 and a half years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338/64 "2005-02-03T12:14:32Z")
_A Spell for Chameleon_ was superb, I thought. Then _The Source Of Magic_ left me feeling, no more than halfway through, that things were getting silly, and it never hit the same heights again. Despite that I carried on at least to _Golem in the Gears_ and later acquired _Demons Don’t Dream_, but I echo all the thoughts of those who say that it was getting childish by then. (FTR, I was rising 24 when I read the first book.) …The pun I would have sent in related to the dime which, instead of causing someone to stop when they trod on it, instead turned into a voracious Triassic reptile with a large fin on its back. Someone can fill in the blank, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338/65 "2005-02-03T12:27:46Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > I think my favorite character was Dor, with the ability to talk to inanimate objects. Mine, too. I was given a used copy of Castle Roogna as a gift one year and soon went in search of the previous novels. I read it up to Demons Don’t Dream, but I didn’t really like any of the novels much past Centaur Isle (although I thought Man From Mundania showed some sign of being interesting). The Xanth computer game tied in with Demons Don’t Dream was a fair hoot. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338/66 "2005-02-03T15:18:39Z")
I posted above that I stopped reading with Demons Don’t Dream. Just yesterday I saw Geis of the Gargoyle on my bookshelf and I think I maybe did read it, so I guess I got further than I thought. –Cliffy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xanth-fans-be-not-ashamed-reveal-thyselves/287338.md?page=3)