Xanth Series

Not to mention, it's just poorly written all around, painfully spoon-feeding obvious symbolism and excessively throwing in fantasy creatures/concepts that do nothing for the plot.

Protagonist is a complete dill hole that I could not care less about, and as a reader, I don't want to follow him or anything in the fantasy world of Xanth.

But of course, flat out telling my boyfriend those thoughts about a book he enjoys would be hurtful, and he has every right to have different preferences.

I am shocked that he would recommend such a book to me, though.

What's he most known for?

Uh, he's most known for a, a book series called Xanth.

Xanth, okay.

Which is about a world where puns are taken literally.

Hmm.

And so the world and everyone has a magic talent, but even the first book of Xanth is like, that's when I tried rereading them like, do I remember? I mean, there's just some enormously misogynistic things.

Hmm.

Just, like, as a teenager and a ...

I guess the only other thing that I want to make sure that I touch on, and this is going to be a meandering conversation, but I do want to say thank you to several folks.

Mr. Lama, Lucky, Luciano, Gymnasium, Mac, MacroBioBoy, Misha, also known as HelloMisha, and I also met Mr. Hollywood and then also Xanth and Nineball from Pure Diablo.

They were so nice.

It was really awesome to talk to them.

We are looking at a fascinating stack of sources detailing events in Zant.

Yeah, and for those of you who might be unfamiliar with the source material, Xanth is this incredible continent where the fundamental laws of physics are just entirely superseded by magic.

completely thrown out the window.

Exactly.

How does emotional energy translate to kinetic force in this world? Like, is it an acoustic resonance from her screaming or is she actually projecting seismic waves?

It appears to be a direct kinetic transfer of emotional distress.

In Xanth, strong emotions often have literal physical weight or impact.

That's intense.

Jay said, there's a whole book series about puns called...

Xanth.

Xanth.

I think he's at book 40, so it's possible.

It's

Not to mention it's just poorly written all around, painfully spoon-feeding obvious symbolism, and excessively throwing in fantasy creatures concepts that do nothing for the plot.

The protagonist is a complete dill hole that I couldn't care less about, and as a reader, I don't wanna follow him or anything in the fantasy world of Xanth.

But of course, flat out telling my boyfriend those thoughts about a book he enjoys would be hurtful, and he has every right to have different preferences.

I am shocked that he would recommend such a book to me though.