Odd Exam

I read a lot of Piers Anthony in high school and college—The Xanth series, Bio of a Space Pirate, the Incarnations of Immortality. The books were clever and fun and when I stumbled across Odd Exam I wondered why I had stopped reading him. The premise isn’t really that unique—many authors play with s......more

I read Piers Anthony in my twenties and early thirties and loved his stuff but this seemed very amateurish and thrown together. It was a very short novella so I read it in one sitting. The idea was good but the execution was not. And I see his obsession with sex hasn’t lessened with age. Good grief.......more

This was a relatively quick read and I am rating it quickly as well. The rating might be different if I sat back and reflected on this more deeply. I don't think that this book is meant for that. It is not a "deep" or "dense" read, imo. What it was for me MOSTLY was a fun read. I do not know if it i......more

Spoilers ahead. Piers Anthony is one of my very favorite authors. When he's good, he's good. When he's bad he stinks. This is one of the bad ones. The writing is simplistic and this is one of his puerile infantile books. Not that he can't write great romantic or erotic (cf Anthonology) work. But whe......more

Listened to the audio version, story was not really helped by the narrator, seeming somewhat stilted. The story was light entertainment, but I didn't really think the emotions of the characters were truly believable.......more