I promised to start the book discussion on "Castle Roogna" today. So let me begin. The focus for the beginning is the first two chapters, "Ogre" and...
Nice start for the discussion Erin. One of the things I really liked when I read these chapters was the way that we have familiar characters in Xanth but a...
... Oh, yes! I could definitely relate to Dor! When I first read that story, I had just gotten out of high school, with memories of bullying fresh in my...
Piers Anthony's April Newsletter is now up at his HiPiers site, http://www.hipiers.com/newsletter.html . Yes, it is April rather than Apull this time--I guess...
... I definitely identified with Dor. (I also identified with Bink in Spell for Chameleon because I felt like I had some potential for greatness somewhere that...
Marisol asked, "I wonder, how many of us identify ourselves with Dor." The loneliness of Prince Dor was not my experience. I was a natural loner at his age,...
When I was young, I was afraid of spiders. It was such an automatic reaction that I did not like to place my hand next to a picture of a spider. Not that that...
Erin , Just had to jump in for a min and tell you how much I enjoyed your comments on the spiders since I live very close to Lake Huron myself your comments...
I have to say that only Piers can make a giant spider a loveable character! Jumper is one of my favorite characters in Xanth and it is a pity that we haven't...
Marisol said, ... E.B. White made Charlotte the spider as loveable as Jumper in "Charlotte's Web." However, she was not a giant spider. Roald Dahl had a...
... I'm less afraid of spiders than I am of other bugs, perhaps because of having had *Charlotte's Web* read to me in school. But the larger spiders get, up to...
Hi Kira, That was an very interesting dream you have. I never had dreams about Xanth, but I had dreamt about meeting Piers and his wife several times. Very...
Hi all, After many years of holding the domain name of piersthread, I finally moved the PATH webpages to his new home, http://www.piersthread.com I will be...
In Pet Peeve, Goody Goblin receives The Finger, and can't get rid of it without offending anyone, which he can't bear to do. Could he have gotten rid of The...
Tim Bruening
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May 22, 2006 2:27 am
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... But giving the Finger to someone enrages that person. Do you really want the Void to be enraged? Yes, the Void is place, not a person, but there is a...
Hi Erin, When we can go back and talk about the next chapters in Castle Roogna? I really want to get into the action but I don't want to start spoilers yet. ...
... Sorry about the hiatus. I took some time for household repairs and the task exhausted me. Ripping up the floor of the only bathroom in the house is not a...
Resuming the Castle Roogna book discussion... Dor's first companion in his quest to the past, Jumper the Spider, was a complete surprise. Dor's next companion,...
Due to the spoiler warning at the end of my last message, I have to continue the discussion here. I perhaps said too much about Millie, already touching most...
Well, if this was a movie, I will say that we one best male actor, Dor, one best female actress (Millie) and two best supporting actors (Jumper and Jonathan,...
... I also had/have trouble with dating (although safely married now, if I had to date again, I know I'd have trouble). But I'm not sure that acting silly is...
Marisol said, ... Millie is not smart in the usual sense of book learning or quick-wittedness. However, she is smart about people. She has the ability to see...
Dear Piers Anthony Thread, We have a new member, adigney, who joined on May 19th. Sorry about not introducing adigney earlier, but May was a busy month for me...
... You would think so, wouldn't you? In my case, any intelligence-hiding I did wasn't about dating, it was about being constantly accused of being the...
Erin, You are really cute when you made naive comments. Dating usually is more about sexual attraction than trying to really know someone. That is the reason...
I'll weigh in on this discussion, I'm too much of a social psychologist to let it pass me by... I think that first of all MUCH of the intelligence hiding...
Spoilers: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Battle Circle: Var The Stick: Var and Soli flee America after the destruction of Helicon, and...
Tim Bruening
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Marisol said, "You are really cute when you made naive comments." I am tempted to argue that at 44 years old, having been married for 21 years and raising two...
Hi, I just took this test on Tickle.com. What's Your Lucky Charm? http://web.tickle.com/invite?test=1121&type=t Take it and see how you score. You can see my...
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