What's the title of this book?

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Originally posted by Pi
Seems funny to me. Just looked up on amazon... Does one need to read the other books to understand it?

Piers Anthony is a hack writer. I have read A Spell for Chameleon, and many other of his books since when I was a teenager. He loves to write multi-volume series- but what happens is that he keeps writing well after the point where he is out of good ideas for that story line.

A Spell for Chameleon, or Split Infinity, or On a Pale Horse are all very good books by themselves. Their sequels are pretty good too. But every book progressively along in each series get a little bit worse.

If you like the book, sure go ahead and read the next book in the series. The moment you find that the book you are reading is boring, stop reading that series! It's not going to get any better!