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Work InformationThe Magicians by Lev Grossman (Author) (2009)
  
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  ) notoghostwood | Jan 3, 2025 |  If Eustace had not had that adventure with the Pevensie children he would have grown up to write this stinker of a book. The plot, setting and characters are an unoriginal mish-mash of other authors' innovations and imagination. (Are most recent works of fiction the sludge produced by human LLMs?) Any novelty is added by what I imagine the author imagines is a shocking and gritty "realism". The characters are unappealing and the plot development is slowish. I read the sequel to make sure I wasn't missing anything and it just got worse. (  ) TheOaf | Dec 28, 2024 | repechage | Dec 26, 2024 | ) flflamingogirl143 | Nov 28, 2024 | ) Longanlon | Nov 19, 2024 |
 ”Magikerna” marknadsförs som ”Harry Potter för vuxna”, men i själva verket är det en ovanligt vacker sorgesång över hur det är att lämna barndomen. Det var faktiskt bättre förr, när man kunde uppslukas helt av leken.  This isn't just an exercise in exploring what we love about fantasy and the lies we tell ourselves about it -- it's a shit-kicking, gripping, tightly plotted novel that makes you want to take the afternoon off work to finish it.  It’s the original magic — storytelling — that occasionally trips Grossman up. Though the plot turns new tricks by the chapter, the characters have a fixed, “Not Another Teen Movie” quality. There’s the punk, the aesthete, the party girl, the fat slacker, the soon-to-be-hot nerd, the shy, angry, yet inexplicably irresistible narrator. Believable characters form the foundation for flights of fantasy. Before Grossman can make us care about, say, the multiverse, we need to intuit more about Quentin’s interior universe. Somewhat familiar, albeit entertaining... Grossman's writing is intelligent, but don't give this one to the kids—it's a dark tale that suggests our childhood fantasies are no fun after all. Grossman has written both an adult coming-of-age tale—rife with vivid scenes of sex, drugs, and heartbreak—and a whimsical yarn about forest creatures. The subjects aren’t mutually exclusive, and yet when stirred together so haphazardly, the effect is jarring. More damaging still is the plot, which takes about 150 pages to gain any steam, surges dramatically in the book’s final third, and then peters out with a couple chapters left to go. Is contained inHas the adaptationWas inspired byAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Haboring secret preoccupations with a magical land he read about in a childhood fantasy series, Quentin Coldwater is unexpectedly admitted into an exclusive college of magic and rigorously educated in modern sorcery. No library descriptions found. |
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