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I played fantasy video games and read fantasy books (the Xanth series by Piers Anthony was a favorite in middle school). I’ve mentioned this before and I’ll write it again: I love these books because as a kid I played D&D, Hero Quest and Dark Tower A LOT.
And he goes on a crazy-fantastic-dangerous journey to get back. This happens to Quentin Coldwater in book three, The Magician’s Land.
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How do you cope with that? Do you throw yourself into figuring out how to get back? Do you move on, desperately trying to forget? And you couldn’t do anything about it but just accept things and walk away, leaving your friends and all you’ve known behind you. But then someone came along and abruptly locked you out. For years, the world (real or fantasy) was yours and you were truly happy. Everything you thought impossible was, in fact possible. TWO: Now imagine that all you’ve ever wished for is in your hands. A fabulous, mesmerizing part of the overall arc of the trilogy. Julia goes through this terrible ordeal in book two, The Magician King, and it’s a gripping, fascinating, pitiful, moving, scary story. Perhaps you go underground and seek out whoever you can find to get you what you wanted, what you almost had.and perhaps you do absolutely whatever it takes to get it. Perhaps, on your own, you try to discover whatever you were denied. And he has to live with that forever! How do you cope? How do you force that out of your mind and persuade yourself to move on to do something else? And even if you do get over it, there’s the constant danger of backsliding when everything that’s mundane around you reminds you that you nearly had something spectacular in your hands and then POOF it was gone. Sorry, but it’s a no.” Doors closed, that’s it. Potter had turned up at Hogwarts and they’d said, “Actually, you aren’t quite right for this. ONE: Imagine you are presented with your future, your dreams, something you’d never ever thought possible.but you don’t make the cut and it’s taken away from you forever. Mostly because I’d never really reflected on these things before and once I did, I was blown away. Grossman expanded upon in the second and third books which really confounded and astounded me. Except paying taxes, I don’t think that’s in any of the stories.įor specific examples of why I liked these novels so much, here are two concepts Mr. And as I mentioned in my other write-up, in these books there is sex (not explicit but it’s in there a fair amount and it’s in good and bad forms), drinking, cursing, violence (nothing too overly gory but Grossman doesn’t pull punches) - and pretty much all other types of mature content. And everything that happens connects and intertwines with everything else - it’s all so wonderfully executed.
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These three novels are simply packed with action, plot-twists, fantasy creatures, excitement, magic, danger, outstanding imagination.all the good stuff plus more. all complex, fascinating characters that went on so many remarkable adventures. Quentin Coldwater (the main man), Julia, Alice, Janet, Eliot, etc. Everything he dreamed up and included in these books was great - Brakebills, the hidden school for magicians Fillory, the fantasy land created in a set of children’s books that turned out to be definitely really real (difficult to explain, but central to the plot of all three Magician’s books, and absolutely awesome) the unique and fascinating ways in which the characters passed back and forth between the real world and Fillory the underground magician society in the real world I could go on and on. Grossman’s brilliant writing and his remarkable creativity.
That is probably about the highest praise I can give to a set of books. The Magician’s series - three fabulous books that I WILL read again someday.