Centaur Aisle (Xanth Novels)
£1.95
A bridge - Here is another one of the Xanth series. Once again we have the puns we seek (though some tend to lean torward the smuuty this time). We have Dor and company going into Mundania to hopefully start trade with a kingdom there. This book serves as link between Castle Roogna and Ogre Ogre. Two of the 6 books written extremely well in the series.
great, like the rest - 16 year old Prince Dor must fill in as temporary king while King Trent and Queen Iris are away on business in Mundania. Two wweks pass, no Trent. Dor decides he (Trent) must have been captured. He gathers a search party, consisting of an ogre, a golem, a centaur, and Princess Irene, who is way more than willing to be Dor s Queen. The party set s off to the Good Magician Humfrey, to ask how they could rescue Trent. Humfrey tells them to seek the Centaur Aisle. So they set off toward Centaur Isle in the south. Mundania, of course, lay to the north. Ingenious plot, as always. Piers Anthony never fails to bring his immortal characters to life.
A great book of magical creatures. - I thought this was a great book. I have also read Castle Roogna and it was pretty good, but Centaur Aisle was much better.When I have read other books in the Xanth Novels, I will write some more.
One Great Book - I thought it was a really great book. It took me about a month to read it but it was worth it. I recomend This book to anyone who enjoys fiction-fantasy.
for crying out loud - I would not regard this book as a bridge, merely an exaggeration of a man s pathetic willingness to do whatever a beautiful woman wants. Thus it is not sexist. It is not trying to say that women use their charms to trap men, because my actual experience with women is that they want a man s feelings to be based on a conscious decision rather than a fundamental attraction. There is the customary adventure, but, as in The Source Of Magic, it means nothing. Oh, well, at least it had a theme, however exaggerated, and some funny parts, such as the spelling bee. Dor s character sours in this book much the way that Bink s character soured in the Source of Magic. In Castle Roogna, Dor is twelve but acts sixteen, and in this one it s the other way around. What s strange is that Castle Roogna starts out with Dor having a crush on Millie, and he goes on a tough adventure just to un-zombie the one that she loves. He wanted to get along with Irene in that one, but she was too immature. They kiss at the end. In this one Irene s prettier and more charming (which is not the same as nicer) and over the course of the story Dor doesn t exactly act with the same gallantry, which I think is unrealistic. Anthony seems also to blame this on Irene, that she trapped Dor into marriage just so she could be Queen. I m a 15-year-old boy, and I KNOW it doesn t work that way. What about Iris and Trent? Later in the series you find out that Iris s secret desire is for Trent to love her of his own volition--once she realized that her illusions weren t getting to him. THAT is the way marriages work. You might think I m saying that because the male has the upper hand, but later later in the series King Trent admits his love for Queen Iris as well. King Trent is my role model, I m not ashamed to admit that. But this book can give people wrong ideas.