From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!wexel Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: In Defense of Xanth Article-I.D.: ittvax.509 Posted: Thu Nov 11 08:40:58 1982 Received: Fri Nov 12 03:26:34 1982 References: ihuxe.137 In the first (two?) Xanth book(s), the puns aided and were integral to the plot. Now the books are just silly stories assembled to support a string of fairly weak puns.