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How Precious Was That While: An Autobiography
One of fantasy's most popular authors, Piers Anthony, is also one of the field's most fascinating and controversial personalities. His first volume of memoirs, Bio of an Ogre (1988), chronicled Anthony's first fifty years from his troubled childhood to his success as a writer, and raised eyebrows for its frank, outspoken comments on fellow writers, editors, and fans.Now Pi
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Hardcover
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352 pages
Published
July 1st 2001
by Tor Books
(first published 2001)
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One of the number of people I'd not known was a Friend or raised in a Quaker family - and I found his assertion that "Writer's Block" is more an indication of not really wanting to write all that much . . . probably true
Most interesting for his accounts of good and bad encounters with his peer writers as well as his troubles with publishers, which is interesting to me none the least as a wannabee writer and long-time bookseller...
I read Piers Anthony only to mock him. In this, the second volume of autobiographical bitching and moaning (the first, "Bio of an Ogre", was mostly arrogant preening), Anthony more or less describes his slow fade-out from the zeitgeist of fantasy literature. He seems keenly aware that what did him in was spending so much time writing unpalatable crap for kids (Xanth), but it's pretty entertaining when he complains about not being taken seriously when he tries his hand at reality-based historical
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This memoir should appeal to anyone like me who would jump to the author's note of Piers Anthony's latest before reading the book. What I find fascinating about Anthony is his struggle for integrity in daily life. It appears he makes it unduly hard on himself in considering ethical implications of decisions I might take for granted. Then when considering his perspective am forced to reevaluate my own standard. Right or wrong he stands his ground, and it is typically the high road.
I love Piers and have been intruigued by the books that I have read of his. This book definitely gave me new insight about him. He tended to ramble at times. There were a few chapters I did not finish because it was not of interest to me. But he had me interested the rest of time. I did enjoy it, but sometimes he repeated himself. He mentioned his first auto-bio enough that now i have to go read that one too.
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Though he spent the first four years of his life in England, Piers never returned to live in his country of birth after moving to Spain and immigrated to America at age six. After graduating with a B.A. from Goddard College, he married one of his fellow students and and spent fifteen years in an assortment of professions before he began writing fiction full-time.
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