/lit/ - Literature

I find it horribly pretentious and pandering now but my earliest interest in reading that I remember distinctly occurred rather late in my high school education. I could choose a handful of other picks (Interstellar Pig [Sleator], Remember Me [Pike] off the top of my head) but I think I'd put this one forward. Having asked, I have no real idea what it is about any of these books that would keep me reading.

This is a point I've adopted in my own recommendations to youth as I get older. It doesn't seem to matter what you read when you're young (or quasi-young) as long as you start reading. The "Important Stuff" seems to occur naturally for those who are inclined to it.

Okay, you guys kept telling me not to bother with any of the books in the Incarnations of Immortality series because On A Pale Horse was the only good one. But I slogged through the ones about Time, Fate, War and Nature anyway, because I really wanted to read the one about Satan.

I highly recommend you do. The one about Satan is actually really fuckawesome.

In it it's revealed that Satan has been the hero of the story all along. He's not really evil and has only been opposing the other Incarnations and God so that he can gain effective control of the mortal realm and remake the framework into one that causes less needless mortal suffering, because God has stopped caring and Heaven is no longer even a nice place to go.

Shit is awesome. I highly recommend plowing through the four books after Pale Horse just to get to this one.

Are Anthony's other books in this series just as good as this one? This may well be my favorite book. It had me sitting straight up at 2 in the morning reading to see what happened when I should have gone to sleep at 10 or 11 if I wanted enough sleep, it's behind only Crime and Punishment and a few W40K books.

This book was awesome, I just wonder if the other ones are just as good. Anthony has written more than Stephen King after all, if he's a good author I'll have a lot to read.

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... have you read On a Pale Horse?

Okay, /lit/, I owe you an apology.

You guys kept recommending this novel to me, and I kept not reading it because what I read of the plot sounded really "out there" and silly.

I was wrong. I just finished this novel about five minutes ago, and it was awesome.

I'm sorry, /lit/.

So what does /lit/ think of the incarnations of immortality series by piers anthony? It was recommended to me by a friend and i've finished all but the last book.

It seems a bit repetitive and straightforward, but it has some interesting ideas.

Nothing pisses me off more then reading a book with a plot that in the hands of a good author could have been one of the best books of our generation.

Picture related,
aka How Great plots are ruined by shitty writers.
aka, Piers Anthony blows cocks.

Now if Kurt V. had wrote this book, shit would of been so cash