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Indlæser... The Magicians: A Novel (original 2009; udgave 2010)af Lev Grossman
Work InformationThe Magicians af Lev Grossman (2009)
  
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 settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |  Quentin reminded me of Holden Caulfield. (  ) aeryn0 | Jul 23, 2023 | I got 80% of the way through this book and had to stop. I wanted to like it because it was a different take on modern day magic than Harry Potter, but it just did not appeal to me. (  ) Cephas730 | Jun 16, 2023 | Loved the concept. Enjoyed the writing style. A lot. But found myself depressed and angry while reading it, hence the lower rating - I didn't enjoy it as much. ( ) zizabeph | May 7, 2023 | Many positive reviews of the book mention how this is supposed to be a critique of fantasy titans like Harry Potter or Narnia. Except... a critique needs to have a sensible plot with coherent characters. Just like saying a film is "subversive" doesn't make it good (or true), saying this is a critique doesn't make it an enjoyable book (or good critique). Instead, Lev Grossman crams 5 different books in one and burns through tropes as fast as he can, often skipping over plot just so he can do a depressing take on another scene from Narnia or HP. Its too bad. The original idea is interesting "What if magic was real, how would it actually affect and warp people?" Except Grossman is more interested in ripping off other books than exploring this question. (  ) xopher | Apr 17, 2023 |
 ”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. Indeholdt iHar tilpasningenEr inspireret afHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable 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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The Magicians - Lev Grossman
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I've spent a lot of time thinking about why I didn't enjoy this book. I like urban fantasy. I like gritty literature. I loved the way the Grossman treated being a magician in a mundane world as something that would mess you up and remove your chances of having a normal life or normal interactions. I loved how academic and technical magic was. And, when Grossman concentrated on his own plot and his own ideas, the results were amazing.
To me, the problem arose in the set of totally unsympathetic disaffected 20-somethings that comprise that main cast. Although we're supposed to believe that they are the most brilliant youths in America, it seems to be a law of physics in Grossman's universe that whenever a character is confronted with two choices, they will chose the worse one. Perhaps it helps that his characters drink copious amounts of alcohol roughly every other page. As the reader, it becomes tedious to anticipate how Grossman will turn the latest plot arc into misery all around. Additionally, Grossman seems to intentionally write unrelated, usually pointless plot arcs that remain without conclusion at the end. Perhaps this is to loan the reader the despair the characters feel at living in a world where nothing means everything. If so, it worked -- I spent most of my time reading this book despairing.
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