I completely agree. I loved his early Xanth novels, and the Incarnations of Immortality series got me through a chunk of Shay's first transplant (a friend sent us a package and I read them to her) but his latest stuff (last decade or so?), I'm just not enjoying it. I do still get them from the library because I *want* to like them again. :-(

I don't think he does cons, though.