In Defense of my nostalgia

[keelywolfe]

I would just like to say that I always liked Piers Anthony's books.

Admittedly, I was probably 12 when I first started reading them, and I keep them mostly out of nostalgia, but it gives me a twinge of pain to see that many, many others consider him to be the laughingstock of sci-fi/fantasy writers.

Oh, yeah? Well, I write gay porn, dammit, and I don't get paid for it! So he's one up from me. I don't believe that every book on the shelf has to be the Best Book Ever Written. Sometimes, it's just fun. I can think of several fannish stories I've read that were not the best written stories out there. They had their problems here and there, and despite that, I adored them, and still do.

I just sort of wish people would cut the poor guy some slack. Not all of us were meant to be Shakespeare, but it doesn't mean we should hang up our pencils either.

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don't feel too bad...

[calystarose.livejournal.com]

Piers Anthony is nothing compared to what I keep around for nostalgic reasons: my first ever Harlequin Romance book. ::sigh:: It's horrid, really, but it was the first one I bought and at the time (early teens) it seemed ever so hot and torrid. heh

Oh lord, I just admitted that out loud, didn't I? heh

Re: don't feel too bad...

[tpod.livejournal.com]

::snicker::

I still have the first romance novel I ever read -- Kathleen Woodiwiss' The Wolf and the Dove.

Ah, that Wulfgar. What a mayaaaan. ^.~

And must say -- UHN on the Adam/Adina icon. ^_^

Re: don't feel too bad...

[calystarose.livejournal.com]

Why thank you! re: icon. I do adore him dressed up as Adina. I just wish I had a picture of him in his outfit from the party/yacht thing. he was gorgeous there. :D

Re: don't feel too bad...

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

I've read that one. *G* Used to looove her books. I was the queen of romance novels when I was about 14 or so. It's the only porn a teenager with a library card had easy access to. Ah, the glory of adulthood.

Re: don't feel too bad...

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

Only about a year or so ago did I finally surrender my small collection of old romance novels. I hadn't read them in many, many years, and nostalgia kept me from pitching them. I finally donated them to a new home, to free up space on my bookshelves for my gay porn. Have to have priorities, you know. *G*

Re: don't feel too bad...

[calystarose.livejournal.com]

::snicker:: yes, het soft core is no competition for queer hard core :D ::giggle::

[(Anonymous)]

I still have a few of the Xanth novels to reread on those really bad days when you need to be reminded that everyone has a talent....and a gazillion terrible puns.

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

Yes...I thought they were adorable. *G*

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

I still have my hardbound version of the first few Xanth books (thanks to the Sci Fi Book Club), and I think I read up to about the fourteenth when I was in high school.

I have paperback copies of the Incarcations of Immortality, which I reread about once every three years or so, and the first few of the Split Infinity series, which I also read most all of in high school.

I like his writing, at least some of the books. And I still chuckle about Faux Pass.

Harumph to the naysayers!

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I always thought they were a nice breath of fresh air.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that Piers Anthony didn't set out to write Shakespeare either (something about the puns clues me in). ;) I loved Xanth.

Just stopping by to let you know I have my own LJ now, and to lay blame for my current HP addiction at your feet. After looking again, wistfully at your 'Sweet Purity of Apples', and bill the Pony hadn't updated in a while... I began to hunt through your other fanfiction.

'Art of Fucking' ranks as one of my favorite Harry/Ron's. You've corrupted me. There I was writing innocent *harumph* tweedy, awkward Frodo/Sam fics, and you lured me into the gentle fun of Harry/Ron, and the dark underworld of Harry/Snape.

You asked a while ago if I'd written anything. I've put all but the NC-17 stuff here. Apologies, the HP stuff is up pre-Beta:

http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=295177