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Indlæser... Stealing Magicaf Tanya Huff
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Setting aside the irritatingly quirky format (this book contains two sets of unrelated stories, bound back-to-back and flipped upside down, which... no) this is a solid collection. I was slightly disappointed to figure out that the thief side consists of the four Terazin stories from Relative Magic, and one of the wizard stories I'd read... somewhere else, but the rest of the wizard set was charming and funny and entirely worthwhile. ( ) One book, two heroines, so I suppose I ought to divide this review in two parts as well. Generally though, the one word that comes to mind is: delightful. Magdalene is the world's most powerful wizard. She's also quite cheerfully interested in having sex, fearless, wise and disinclined to get mixed up in plots, conspiracies or epic quests to save the world. Especially the last story (Why Wizards Shouldn't Make a Council and All Get Together to Set Down Rules for All Other Wizards) is simply brilliant. Terazin is a thief who, in the first story, meets and falls in love with a mercenary. (A female one, I should perhaps add.) Her stories are less whimsical, but none the less enjoyable for that. If you're tired of epic quests and your typical sword & sorcery-story, this book's the perfect in-between snack. Eh. The stories in this book were amusing, but not much more than that. I had read several of them before in Huff's other collections, and I frankly liked them better then. This might have been because I'm not terribly enamored with the Magdelene and Terazin characters and reading a whole book of their stories was a bit much for me. I love Huff's tendency of prefacing the stories in her collections with information specific to each of them, but that tendency was regrettably absent here. Instead, Huff wrote a short Author's Afterward and stuck it at the end of each of the character sections. This could have been nice way of slipping in that information in a slightly different manner, but the two Afterwards were word-for-word identical and this was pretty disappointing. I also thought the flip-style format of this 2005 edition was gimmicky, unnecessary, and distracting. This edition, however, included two additional stories than did the 1999 edition, so it's still the edition I'd recommend reading if you were so inclined. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Between the covers of this "double-faced flipover" book, you_ll find two complete collections of Tanya Huff_s comical short stories featuring Magdelene (the world's most powerful and laziest wizard) and Terazin (a top-notch thief). "Stealing Magic is charming, funny, and once again proves that Huff has no regard for the conventions and boundaries of genre... -- the genre is turned on its head, and to hilarious effect. The Magdelene stories in Stealing Magic are certainly some of the few _high fantasy_ short works that I have enjoyed recently." - Challenging Destiny Stealing Magic is both appealing and amusing, and belongs in everyone's fantasy collection. No library descriptions found. |
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