Reddit reviews Jumper Cable (Xanth)

There are still 2 or 3 that I have a soft spot for... Golem in the Gears, Crewel Lye, Night Mare, and Man from Mundania were all really good. It's basically the second half of the Xanth series, from about The Colour of Her Panties on where things get recycled to the point that I honestly believe that Piers Anthony is writing his own Xanth fap-fiction at this point...

It was always that way, I suppose, but it usually had plot and good humor to back up the rest.

The last one I tried to read was Jumper Cable ... the top-rated review says it all, pretty much. I was like, okay, main character is a spider and Night Mare was great. How can he fuck this up?

Spider gets turned into a man. Of course. And now he must experience all the "pleasures" of being human and so forth...

>"But I've always liked the more innocent naughtiness rather than this in-your-face, "They had sex, and then this guy had sex with that girl...and then this other girl, and then this one, and then these two had sex all over again, and then..." sex, sex, sex, ad nauseum. I never thought it would happen, but I think I've just been turned off of the series.. "

The strange thing is, I absolutely don't mind erotic things of any kind, but it doesn't have any of the redeeming value you'd find in Nabokov or Haruki Murakami...

Is it safe to say at this point that I'm an antifan? I actually keep on reading these things and laughing at disbelief at how bad it is. The ending to DoOon Mode was ridiculous. Even the Amazon reviewers are tongue-in-cheek!

Knot Gneiss

>Here we go “Adventuring” in Xanth once more, meeting a horde of the familiar characters while running the gauntlet of a multitide of sins. [...] Xanth remains a land of happy endings, however, and readers can expect the usual amount of enjoyment from this thirty-fourth Xanth tale. --Roland Green.