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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.
Jannes: The Magicians wolud not exist if it wasn't for the Narnia books, and is really a kind of loving deconstruction of Lewis' work. What could be better than giving the books that inspired it a try?
TFleet: Both novels are centered in the modern real world, but with a set of young adults who have magical powers. The novels are different takes on the question, "What would the modern real world be like if there were magic?"
wandering_star: I thought of making this recommendation when reading the magical education section of The Magicians, which reminded me of the first book of The Once and Future King. But the wider idea - that magical powers can't stop us from making stupid human mistakes - is also relevant to both books.… (plus d'informations)
beyondthefourthwall: Teenagers suddenly plunged into the magical-boarding-school experience and, once their training is behind them, having to figure out who is trustworthy, what they need to do with their lives, whether they are being summoned into leadership roles, and maybe - just maybe - where their reality is coming from in the first place.… (plus d'informations)
Prenez Harry Potter, Narnia, the Golden Compass, Earthsea, et autres histoires d’apprentissage de la magie avec des épreuves ritualisées; ajoutez-y du sexe et de l’alcool, et teintez le tout d’une touche de noirceur amère et d’humour cynique. Vous obtiendrez The Magicians.
Les geeks reconnaîtront au passage des références à Nethack, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Donjons & Dragons, etc.
Le livre se lit très facilement, et les personnages sont attachants malgré des stéréotypes tels l’adolescent-doué-mais-un-peu-dépressif-et-en-colère-contre-le-monde ou la fille-surdouée-mais-timide-qui-se-révèle-après-du-sexe-impromptu.
L’auteur joue avec les archétypes d’histoires, de lieux, et de personnages. On en passe beaucoup en revue, au travers du prisme d’un groupe de post-adolescents surdoués et légèrement névrosés. Ça pourrait ressembler à la vrai vie, mais la magie amplifie tous les aspects. L’histoire commence à un Hogwarts des alcooliques, et se termine dans un monde ressemblant à Narnia mais avec beaucoup plus de sang, le tout après avoir retourné une partie des bars de New York.
”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.
Grossman, Time magazine's book critic and a frequent writer on technology, clearly has read his Potter and much more. While this story invariably echoes a whole body of romantic coming-of-age tales, Grossman's American variation is fresh and compelling. Like a jazz musician, he riffs on Potter and Narnia, but makes it his own.
Vladimir Nabokov once observed, "The truth is that great novels are great fairy tales." "The Magicians" is a great fairy tale, written for grown-ups but appealing to our most basic desires for stories to bring about some re-enchantment with the world, where monsters lurk but where a young man with a little magic may prevail.
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I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
--William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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Quentin did a magic trick. Nobody noticed.
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That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.
Space was full of angry little particles.
He had no interest in TV anymore - it looked like an electronic puppet show to him, an artificial version of an imitation world that meant nothing to him anyway. Real life - or was it a fantasy life? whichever one Brakebills was - that was what mattered, and that was happening somewhere else.
No one would come right out and say it, but the worldwide magical ecology was suffering from a serious imbalance: too many magicians, not enough monsters.
"Never cook with a wine you wouldn't drink," he said. "Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn't drink."
I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began.
Sure, you can live out your dreams, but it'll only turn you into a monster.
Wizard needs food badly. And also maybe a shower.
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
“It’s a funny thing about the old gods,” he said. “You think that just because they’re old they must be difficult to kill. But when the fighting starts, they go down just like anybody else. They aren’t stronger, they’re just older.”
They were so magical they were practically technological.
It looked like he remembered pictures from the London Blitz looking.(?)
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Loosening his tie with one hand, Quentin stepped out into the cold clear winter air and flew.
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.
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Les geeks reconnaîtront au passage des références à Nethack, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Donjons & Dragons, etc.
Le livre se lit très facilement, et les personnages sont attachants malgré des stéréotypes tels l’adolescent-doué-mais-un-peu-dépressif-et-en-colère-contre-le-monde ou la fille-surdouée-mais-timide-qui-se-révèle-après-du-sexe-impromptu.
L’auteur joue avec les archétypes d’histoires, de lieux, et de personnages. On en passe beaucoup en revue, au travers du prisme d’un groupe de post-adolescents surdoués et légèrement névrosés. Ça pourrait ressembler à la vrai vie, mais la magie amplifie tous les aspects. L’histoire commence à un Hogwarts des alcooliques, et se termine dans un monde ressemblant à Narnia mais avec beaucoup plus de sang, le tout après avoir retourné une partie des bars de New York.
Bref, j’adore. ( )