Ogre, Ogre

First, I don't read SF as a rule, but someone left this book at my house, so I picked it up. What a great read - the puns and wordplays captured my interest, and now I've found myself reading and re-reading looking for things I missed the previous times through. I've gotten so hooked I've ordered other books from the Xanth series. I'd definitely recommend this one to SF fans and non-fans alike.

This book is hilarious. Great puns. Smash is an ogre. They love to fight, the uglier the better and brains is something to be avoided. It has some great fights which shiows the strength of an ogre. Smash runs into an Eye Queue (IQ) vine and becomes smart. He regards it as a curse, as ogres are proud of their stupidity. Ogres are also soulless, emotionless creatures, and Smash is not; over the course of the adventure he becomes more and more of what we would call humanlike. Though Smash knows he is an Ogre. His adventure triggers new feelings, which at first he doesn't understand, and eventually becomes comfortable with the idea of being a soulful human being while maintaining the ability to bash someone's brain in at need. When you remeber Smash's speach panterens, you forget how horrible Ogres' are suppose to be. A must read.

This book is about an Ogre who helps three girls; a human girl, a goblin girl, and a centaur girl. one would normally think that a ogre would eat them, but this is a vegatarian ogre, so he didn't. read the book to find out what adventure i mean

Smash is lovable. It's these types of books that make me always doubt whether it's real or not...scary... Anyway, I always rate Anthony's books a 5 star. But in Xanth (my fave series) the style of writing is a lot better in the first trilogy of 9 or so then in the later parts of the series, while the later part of the series all have better plots. It's a balance. I still like the idea of magic being so close yet inacessible because I don't believe hard enough... Read the whole series (in order). If not the whole series, then start reading with A Spell for Chameleon and stop when you feel like it (not in the middle of a book, of course, the endings are always great.) Anthony Rocks!

I have read all the Xanth books up to Vale of the Vole, and Ogre, Ogre is my absolute favorite! It's fabulous! This is a romantic and adventurous story about an ogre-human cross, Smash, who finds out that he's not quite as stupid and fierce as he (and everyone else) always thought he was. My favorite part is '"Ogre, ogre, burning bright-" "Ogres don't burn!" "They do when they're stepping across the firewall," Tandy said, "trying to fetch a boat so the rest of us can navigate past the Loan Sharks. That's what reminded Chem of the poem, she said. The flaming ogre. Anyway, the poem tells how they go through the jungle in the night, the fiery ogres, and are fearfully awful." "Yes," Smash said, becoming pleased with the image. "We had a good laugh. You aren't fearful at all, to us. You're a big, wonderful, blundering ball of fur, and we wouldn't trade you for anything." "No matter how brightly I burn," Smash agreed ruefully.'