Posted: Aug 20, 2017 4:00 pm
So I started reading some Piers Anthony and have discovered he is a fucking horrible writer. Even more bizarre, it seems like there's a TON of people who've read his work and don't realize how bad it is. To be fair, most of them were children when they read it. But I just started on the first Xanth book and it's like watching The Room -- an unintentionally hilarious manual on how not to write. Every time he refers to a female character, it's like you're getting a report from a 12 year old boy who's never even held a conversation with a girl before. It's truly some of the most sad, cringey, giggle-inducing literature I've ever read. Except for the rapey stuff, that's just disturbing.