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Man From Mundania (Xanth)
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For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there's nothing more exciting than a Quest. Especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses the Heaven Cent, it takes her not to the top of Mount Rushmost, where the winged monsters gather, not to the sea where the merfolk swim--but to Mundania, a world much like out own (that is, boring). It is here that she meets a young college student so dull that he doesn't even believe in magic, or princesses, or Xanth!Does he have a lot to learn.The thrilling climax to the trilogy started in Vale of the Vole and continued in Heaven Cent.
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Grey Murphy rocks!.......2006-10-08
When I was a kid I loved reading Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. I was a young tyke when I read his initial Xanth entry, A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON, when it was first published. I then read the next eleven installments as they came out, culminating with MAN FROM MUNDANIA. These twelve Xanth novels are the best this series has to offer, and I firmly believe the books that followed them lack a little something. Offhand, I say, part of the reason the earlier books are better is because they seemed to be a bit more serious minded, even with all the puns, whereas the later books just seemed to wallow in ever sillier and unfunny puns. Whatever, maybe I'm old-schooled. I prefer the classic Xanth books. I just re-read the first three books and MAN FROM MUNDANIA a few days ago and I must say that they again instilled in me the same kind of enchantment I felt when I read them all those years ago. In contrasting these excellent entries with the later, more drab Xanth offerings, well, it's really not even a contest.
My favorite Xanth books are A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON, THE SOURCE OF MAGIC, CREWEL LYE, and MAN FROM MUNDANIA. I like MAN FROM MUNDANIA mostly because, for the first time, Piers chose to have a character from our side of the fence (Earth, or Mundania - as Xanth folks call it) become the main protagonist. (SPOILERS begin) Grey Murphy is a normal 18 year old guy drudging thru city college and toiling thru a tepid course in Freshman English. Grey is as average as you can get. His driver's license indicates his hair as "hair-colored" and his eyes as "neutral." The weirdness begins for him when his computer seems to gain sentience and begins to affect Grey's personal life. It offers to set him up with odd young women with dubious names such as Agenda, Euphoria, and Salmonella. The computer eventually arranges a meeting between Grey and a girl named Ivy. Grey is intrigued with Ivy, who is pretty, quaint, and charming, despite her assertions that she hails from a fantasyland called Xanth and is a princess. According to her, Ivy had used the Heaven Cent, a fantastic penny device which sends the user to where he or she is needed the most. But now, Ivy wants to go home and Grey agrees to help her.
This begins Grey Murphy's magical adventures in Xanth. Grey, as skeptical and logical-minded as they come, takes a long while to believe in Xanth's magical reality as he insists on finding logical, scientific explanations for every wondrous sight he beholds, much to Ivy's frustration. The story goes on to chronicle Grey's eventual belief in magic and Grey's coming into his own, as he strives to defeat the nefarious Com-Pewter and woo the Princess Ivy, despite the disapproval of her regal parents (you see, only someone on a Magician level can marry Xanth royalty and Grey, of course, doesn't have any magic talent).
Although this is a fine stand-alone novel in its own right, Piers Anthony, as usual, throws in waves of characters from his prior Xanth novels (Stanley Steamer, Grundy Golem and Rapunzel, King Dor and Queen Irene, etc). It also somewhat continues the story of Prince Dolph and his two fiancees, Nada and Electra (which finally gets resolved in the next book ISLE OF VIEW). A sequence I enjoyed was Grey and Ivy's trip to Mount Parnassus and the Muse of History, wherein we get to sneak a peek at future Xanth book titles. MAN FROM MUNDANIA is loosely considered to be the third in a trilogy, the previous two being VALE OF THE VOLE and HEAVEN CENT. Again, the ridiculous fantasy elements and groan-inducing puns (several contributed by fans) abound and benefit the tale. The storyline seems to offer a more mature content, delving more into the Adult Conspiracy, no doubt brought about by Grey's earthbound sensibilities. The Magician of Information is still missing (this plotline has gone on for several books now), but there is somewhat of a resolution offered here. I particularly admire the neat way Grey's dilemma is resolved (involving a reluctant promise he had made to the evil Com-Pewter).
Years ago, after MAN FROM MUNDANIA, I continued to read the following Xanth installments, but found that these had lost the luster. After YON ILL WIND, I finally gave up. But I very strongly recommend MAN FROM MUNDANIA and the eleven Xanth books before it. After that, you're on your own.
Xanth's last hurrah.......2003-04-16
I have to hand one thing to Piers Anthony: He managed to take a single plot element, the disappearance of Good Magician Humphrey, and make it last for five novels, barely advancing the search for the Good Magician in each book.
After her brother Dolph looked for the Good Magician Humphrey in the previous book and came back with two fiancees, Princess Ivy decides its her turn to go look for the Answer-providing Magician. After stealing back a magical mirror from a magical Com-Pewter, she invokes the Heaven Cent and ....
Enter Grey Murphy, stage left. Residing in magicless Mundania, he has managed to obtain a computer program that procures girlfriends for him. And its latest procurement? No prize if you guess Ivy. Following the by-now standard Xanth formula, they undertake a journey (back to Xanth) and fall in love along the way.
But it's a good journey. Piers Anthony made two very, very good decisions with this novel. First, he abandoned the juvenile tone that infested earlier and later entries in the Xanth series. Second, after umpty-ump Xanth novels made tangle trees, ladies-slipper bushes, and other magical marvels seem mundane, Anthony chose to approach much of novel through an outsider -- Grey Murphy.
Even as he confronts wonder after wonder, Grey Murphy refuses to believe in magic. A sailing mountain? Special effects. Invisible giant spouting a river of blood? Food coloring. A half-human, half-equine centaur? A robot. A hate spring? Ordinary water, backed by a strong superstition that it will make people hate each other.
Despite his disbelief in magic, Grey Murphy is nonetheless the typical Anthony protagonist, with a code of ethics that uniformly matches every other protagonist we've seen out there. Not that I mind ethical characters, mind you; it just gets tiresome when, after a dozen books, all the good guys display identical codes of ethics. Kind of ruins diversity of characters.
The plot continues, with Grey having to meet a certain challenge to successfully assert a claim to Ivy's hand in marriage, journey all over Mount Parnassus, and overcome a rather nasty oath that's been forced on him ... but things might just turn out well for this happy couple, right? Right??
If you would like to inflict the remainder of this series on yourself, this book is a very good jumping-on point. Grey Murphy's unfamiliarity with the land of magic makes him a good proxy for an unfamiliar reader, but the book's other flaws (uniform characters, linear plotting) keep it from a perfect rating.
A highlight of Xanth.......2001-10-27
"Man from Mundania" is number 12 in Piers Anthony's ever-growing Xanth series, which makes it the third volume of what I think of as the 'next generation' of Xanth novels (the first um, 'trilogy' ended with number 9, "Golem in the Gears"). In a way, it also marks one of the last of the old style Xanth books: although the series continues to be entertaining and amusing, I am less often enraptured by the characters of recent times. Perhaps I'm just getting old. Regardless, "Man from Mundania" remains one of my favourite Xanth novels that I have returned to many times to read and savour.
Our heroine for this episode is Princess Ivy, now eighteen and of marriageable age. Being a Sorceress, she must marry a man of similar calibre magic, which presents a slightly awkward situation, since no suitable candidates currently exist in Xanth. Ivy isn't too worried, though- she's in no hurry to get married. Instead, she decides to set off on a Quest: to find the missing Good Magician Humfrey, who has mysteriously disappeared (since volume 10, "Vale of the Vole"). Her quest sends her to that most terrible of blah and boring places, Mundania. Here she meets Grey Murphy, a seemingly ordinary mundane Mundane with hair-coloured hair, eye-coloured eyes and no apparent distinguishing features at all. Grey teaches Ivy about Mundania, while she attempts to convince him about the existence of Xanth, finally taking him back home with her. Along the way, of course (this being a Xanth novel, after all!) they fall in love. And this presents yet another problem, since Ivy must marry a Magician, and Grey is a Mundane who has no magic talent at all- or does he?
Ivy and Grey's adventures in the lands of Mundania and Xanth are inventive and entertaining, filled with the sunny good humour of the Xanth series. Characters with a satisfying amount of depth and a well-constructed plot add to the mix to make this one of the best novels in the Xanth series.
8.5 stars out of 10
Escape from the mundane.......2001-06-20
Anthony's description of Grey at the beginning is a perfect physical/emotional representation of what many people view the world we live in as. He's not handsome, intelligent or witty, and his driver's license lists his eyes as "neutral" and his hair color as "hair-colored". Perfect. I know people like this. I was chuckling through the whole book, not so much at its absurdity (which is in abundance), but at its truth. Who wouldn't want to step away from our workaday world into a magical land with a beautiful and (admittedly) oddball woman who thinks you're everything you know you're not? I enjoyed all the books in this series up to this point (although I gave up after Question Quest. There is too much of a good thing.), but this one I keep coming back to when I want some fun, irreverent fun. Definately worth your time to kick back and relax with this book.
The Magical Quest.......2001-02-23
The novel Man From Mundania, by Piers Anthony, follows the journey of an unlikely couple on their quest to find the Good Magician and to save the magical world of Xanth. The Good Magician, also known as Humphrey, has the magical talent of knowing the answer to any question. He mysteriously dissappeared and the land of Xanth is going into chaos without his knowledge. The journeying couple consists of Ivy and Grey. Ivy is a princess and sorceress in the magical land of Xanth and is the one that is originally journeying to find the Good Magician. Grey is a seemingly ordinary human being who comes from the dull land of Mundania. He meets Ivy on her quest and ends up joining her. The couple continue their journey to find Humphrey and instead discover an evil machine's plot to take over Xanth using Grey and Ivy as pawns. I really liked how this story is written and the outcome of the novel is great. I also enjoyed the little puns that can be found throughout the story. All in all, this is a spectacular book and I recomend it to anyone who enjoys a funny, well written novel.
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Books 11 & 12 in the XANTH series.Heaven Cent (1988) Xanth Book 11As far as nine-year-old Dolph, son of King Dor and Queen Irene of Castle Roogna, could tell, the world was full of mysteries that needed solving.For instance, why did young men and women spend so much time on mushy stuff? Love, they said, which explained nothing as far as Dolph was concerned.Then there was the matter of Grandma Iris and what happened to her wonderful talent for illusion -- making things seem like other things. Nowadays, she could only make them sound like other things -- an ability of dubious worth.But the biggest mystery of all was Good Magician Humfrey's disappearance in a puff of smoke -- holy smoke -- accidentally conjured by one of Humfrey's elves. And that seemed like one puzzle the boy could do something about. So, setting out with the skeleton Marrow Bones, his own magical talents -- and his mother's permission -- Dolph embarked upon a grand quest across the land of Xanth... a journey on which the lad found himself pitted against bloodthirsty harpies, human-headed snakes called Naga, and -- most challenging of all -- marriage-minded girls who supplied some surprising answers to Dolph's questions.Man from Mundania (1989)Xanth Book 12For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there's nothing more exciting than a Quest, especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses the Heaven Cent, it takes her not to the top of Mount Rushmost, where the winged monsters gather, nor to the sea where the merfolk swim -- but to Mundania, a world much like our own (that is, boring). It is here that she meets a young college student so dull that he doesn't even believe in magic, or princesses, or Xanth!
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