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Chargement... Imagerpar L. E. Modesitt
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a very slow read. The author has created an interesting and VERY detailed world for this story but the amount of detail that goes into every aspect of this story is a little overwhelming. I found that I could skip entire pages and not miss a single aspect of the story, I would only miss the detailed description of the silverware at dinner, or the understanding of how government works that isn’t really an aspect of the plot. I found the magic interesting but lacking, the concept of being able to imagine anything and will it to happen has potential but when put into practice the users best choice is to will an air bubble into someone’s blood or place oil in front of someone who is running. Then the ending of the book is also lacking on the BIG BANG conclusion, you flip thru pages and pages of trying to determine who is out to kill the main character and within a couple turns of the page it’s all over and isn’t’ really all that fantastic. I am going to say that this book isn’t for everyone. Hell, it wasn’t for me the first two times I tried to read it. This time though I plowed through it. It is not a fast paced book and spends a lot of time in philosophy and world building. I think the pace was what through me the first couple of times but for some reason I was in the right frame of mind and could not put it down. This is one of those authors I've seen for years and just never gotten around to reading. Enjoyed this one, although one small quibble is that since the main character is learning, we spend a lot of time listening to him get lectured at. Was still very good though, and I liked a lot of the secondary characters around him, they are all very well done, with reasons to exist that aren't always about the main guy. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L'Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar, he has spent years becoming a journeyman artist and is skilled and diligent enough to be considered for the status of master artisan-in another two years. Then, in a single moment, his entire life is transformed when his master patron is killed in a flash fire, and Rhenn discovers he is an imager-one of the few in the entire world of Terahnar who can visualize things and make them real. Rhenn is forced to leave his family and join the Collegium of Imagisle. Because of their abilities (they can do accidental magic even while asleep) and because they are both feared and vulnerable, imagers must live separately from the rest of society. In this new life, Rhenn discovers that all too many of the "truths" he knew were nothing of the sort. Every day brings a new threat to his life. He makes a powerful enemy while righting a wrong, and he begins to learn to do magic in secret. Imager is the innovative and enchanting opening of an involving new fantasy story. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Imager is supposed to be a brand new fantasy world/epic series. What it ultimately feels like is a low stakes knock-off of his own Recluce series. We lose the overarching themes of order, chaos, and balance with nature, the interplay between those concepts and 'good' and 'evil' and motivation, and are instead left with a world and magic that feels similar but stripped of anything approaching a thought provoking ideology. Even the magic feels the sames, but with essentially no risk/reward...no intrinsically limiting factors to the otherwise mad power fantasy of this entirely internal system of magic and imagination. I'm going to read the second book, just because I have it, but I would skip this series entirely. ( )