Rightful white gold wielder(s)

[Horrim Carabal]

Kind of off topic, but someone mentioned Piers Anthony.

I'm one of those weirdoes who doesn't like Xanth at all - not even the first few good ones.

Incarnations of Immortality, now that was better. And the series that started with Out of Phaze. Blue Adept, etc. Not bad.

Nowhere near SRD, but not bad reads.

[thewormoftheworld'send]

Kind of off topic, but someone mentioned Piers Anthony.

I'm one of those weirdoes who doesn't like Xanth at all - not even the first few good ones.

Incarnations of Immortality, now that was better. And the series that started with Out of Phaze. Blue Adept, etc. Not bad.

Nowhere near SRD, but not bad reads.

No, not bad, often very good for a teenager as I was at the time. But when they started reading like trashy dime-store novels I was forced to give him up some time in the 1980s. However, I had some momentum going, an interest, even a real love for that author's writing, that refused to die easily. I gave up on Blue Adept, bought another new Anthony and gave up on that one, then perhaps around the third time I wasted my money on an unfinished book, I quit trying altogether. That last time I don't believe i even made it through the first chapter. I had gone 180 degrees, from utter adoration to complete revulsion.

[Edit for those interested - maybe nobody but here goes: In 1987 I thought to revive my old interest in Anthony and bought Shade of the Tree. That was the story I could not make any headway with. An old Archie comic would be more enjoyable, even less silly, than Shade.]

[thewormoftheworld'send]

I've taken the liberty of copying this list from hipiers.com. These are older Anthony's that I highly recommend reading and which I enjoyed immensely.


Macroscope Avon pb 69, Gregg hc 86 (Audio cassette from Newman), Mundania Press 03

Rings of Ice Avon pb 74; reissued 87

SERIES:
Chthon Ballantine pb 67, Berkley pb 75, Ace pb 87, Xlibris 2000
Phthor Berkley pb 75, Ace pb 87, Xlibris 2000
Battle Circle Avon pb 78 (Sos the Rope, Var the Stick, Neq the Sword)

OF MAN AND MANTA Series (England)
Omnivore Ballantine pb 68; Avon pb 75
Orn Avon pb 71
OX Avon pb 76 [My first Anthony evarrrr! I still have it on my bookshelf.]

[And for lovers of Sci-fi]

CLUSTER Series
Cluster Avon pb 77 (out of print)
Chaining the Lady Avon pb 78
Kirlian Quest Avon pb 78
Thousandstar Avon pb 80
Viscous Circle Avon pb 82

Tarot Ace 1987 (God, Vision, & Faith of, in one volume)

[That last entry should read God of Tarot, Vision of Tarot, and Faith of Tarot. These three stories piqued an interest in Tarot card reading with me that lasted some time.]

[Seareach]

ok...if I can work out how to be that clever I'm going to split this... stay tuned!

[SoulBiter]

Battle Circle !!

1.Sos the Rope (1968)
2.Var the Stick (1972)
3.Neq the Sword (1975)

[Kaos Arcanna]

Wait a second.

If giving the ring to someone else makes that person the rightful wielder, then Covenant hasn't been the rightful wielder since Illearth War.

Remember, he gave it to Hile Troy to have him save Elena.

[thewormoftheworld'send]

Battle Circle !!

1.Sos the Rope (1968)
2.Var the Stick (1972)
3.Neq the Sword (1975)

This wasn't split yet. The first two were good, the third one was kind of a bummer. And for general interest, this series was based off of Anthony's unpublished senior graduation novel called The Unstilled World, in 1956.


Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.
-- T.S. Eliot

[thewormoftheworld'send]

Wait a second.

If giving the ring to someone else makes that person the rightful wielder, then Covenant hasn't been the rightful wielder since Illearth War.

Remember, he gave it to Hile Troy to have him save Elena.

That has been brought up on the GI. And I think it was considered a slip on Donaldson's part.