- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.; Reprint edition (1 Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345350480
- ISBN-13: 978-0345350480
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 2.3 x 17.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 41,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Before Piers lost most of his spark in favour of quantity over quality, he wrote books like this one that are so good that I have just bought them again. This is one of them, and it is fantastic. In search of a cure for death itself, the young magician Dor, who can make any inanimate object speak and tell its story, travels into the past by way of the Tapestry, in doing so, the magic he uses places him in the body of a huge warrior and brings forth a companion in the form of a massive green spider called Jumper. What follows is like a warped trip to a Narnia where bombs grow on trees, the ones that aren't trying to eat you, swords have a mind of their own, and just about anything can happen. What does is quite possibly the best three-way battles ever imagined. And this time the zombies are the good guys.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is one of the very good books in the Xanth series. It is one of the 6 or so books in the series that comes close to capturing the plot and writting of the first book. This book jumps straight into action. And we get a history lesson of Castle Roogna. The book is filled with suspense and irony.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
You'll never look at spiders the same way again
23 Jan 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"Castle Roogna" is the third in the "Xanth" series by Piers Anthony. Unlike the first two, which focused on Bink, this one focuses on Bink's son, Dor. Dor is a twelve year old Magician with the power to speak to inanimate objects or the dead -- which is quite useful as a means of gathering information. When Queen Iris tries to scare him with illusions of dragons or other horrible monsters, Dor is able to ask the floor if the creature is real, and when he's told it's not, he can walk through the illusion without fear.
Dor gets sent on a mission to find a way to bring zombie Jonathan back to life as a favor to Millie the maid. It's tough because Dor has a severe crush on Millie, due partially to the fact that her magic talent is sex appeal(?). But Millie loves Jonathan. To find the means to bring Jonathan back to life, Dor has to travel 800 years in the past through a magic tapestry.
Along on the ride is a giant spider named Jumper. Well, he was normal size in Xanth, but he got transformed into a six foot tall spider in the past. Disgusting? Maybe. But Jumper is incredibly loyal, mature, powerful, and genuine decent.
One of the really neat things about "Castle Roogna" is how well its plot fits in with the previous two novels ("A Spell for Chameleon" and "The Source of Magic") -- oddities like the Forget spell around the Gap (no one remembers the Gap) are explained by the end of this book in a satisfying way.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Great book for teen or pre-teen
3 Dec 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I first got into the Xanth novels when I was 16 maybe. I loved them, and I loved this one most of all. I probably read it 4 or 5 times during my teen years and as a young adult.
This is a great book to encourage kids to read for pleasure. In my opinion, it is the best of the Xanth novels, but it should be read after A Spell for Chamelon and The Source of Magic, so readers will have a firm grasp of Xanth and who is who.
In this book Xanth is still a wonderous and dangerous place! Later books in the series turn Xanth into an environment suitable for toddlers. Ugh.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
One of the last decent Xanth books
17 Mar 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Castle Roogna, the third in the Xanth books, is one of the last of the readable Xanth books in the series. From this point out, the series decays into a mudge of eeping nymphs with luscious flesh and awful puns.
I remember as a pre-teenager being captivated by a Spell for Chameleon and becoming an addicted Xanth reader. It was interesting to pick this book up again as an adult and realize that while my opinion of Anthony eventually declined, the first three books in the series are still pretty readable.
Xanth in the first three books is a really edgy place. People are often quite cold and their motivations obscure. Dor feels very real as a character, bearing his burdens of expectations and confusion as he struggles his way into the adult world.
The silly puns themselves are at a minimum in this book, with the exception of a couple of real groaners. (Gerrymander, oy!) The nice thing is that since the puns are not omnipresent they are almost funny when they do appear and do not spoil the read as a whole.
The first three books are still recommended for pre-teenagers. I am sure that they will enjoy them-- be a little aware that Anthony indulges in some fairly dubious gender stereotyping, so if you are very sensitive to that sort of thing you might want to read them first before you give these books as a present.
I remember as a pre-teenager being captivated by a Spell for Chameleon and becoming an addicted Xanth reader. It was interesting to pick this book up again as an adult and realize that while my opinion of Anthony eventually declined, the first three books in the series are still pretty readable.
Xanth in the first three books is a really edgy place. People are often quite cold and their motivations obscure. Dor feels very real as a character, bearing his burdens of expectations and confusion as he struggles his way into the adult world.
The silly puns themselves are at a minimum in this book, with the exception of a couple of real groaners. (Gerrymander, oy!) The nice thing is that since the puns are not omnipresent they are almost funny when they do appear and do not spoil the read as a whole.
The first three books are still recommended for pre-teenagers. I am sure that they will enjoy them-- be a little aware that Anthony indulges in some fairly dubious gender stereotyping, so if you are very sensitive to that sort of thing you might want to read them first before you give these books as a present.
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