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Original Title:	The Magicians
ISBN:	0670020559 (ISBN13: 9780670020553)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Magicians #1
Characters:	Quentin Coldwater, Martin Chatwin, Jane Chatwin, Alice Quinn, Eliot Waugh, Janet Pluchinsky, Josh Hoberman, Julia Wicker, Penny (William), James (The Magicians), The Beast, Henry Fogg, Professor Sundermann, Rupert Chatwin, Fiona Chatwin, Christopher Plover, Professor Melanie Vandervaya, Lovelady, Umber, Ember (The Magicians), Richard (The Magicians), Anaïs (The Magicians), Humbledrum, Farvel, Professor Mayakovsky
Setting:	New York State(United States) Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy(United States)
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2010), John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2011), The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2009), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & Fantasy (2009)

The Magicians (The Magicians #1) Hardcover | Pages: 402 pages

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Title	:	The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
Author	:	Lev Grossman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 402 pages
Published	:	August 11th 2009 by Viking
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Urban Fantasy. Young Adult. Science Fiction Fantasy. Adult

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A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.

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A friend gave this book to me as a Christmas present, but the sneering reviews (on and inside the book) which compared it (oh-so-favorably) to Harry Potter/Narnia/LotR (proclaiming them "weak" and this strong and bracing and refreshing and...) kept repulsing me before I could even get to the first page. She's coming to visit me next month however and I'm determined to read it! Updates to follow!UPDATE 4: A miserable book about miserable people being miserable while doing miserable things written

A quick and easy way to describe this would be to call it Harry Potter for adults. There's a magic school and a lot more sex and booze than poor old Harry ever had. But that doesn't do it justice because this was an extremely original and unique twist on the notion of what it would be like to actually live in a world where magic and fantasy realms exist.Quentin Coldwater is a bored teenager getting ready to apply for college but is already seriously disillusioned with his life and wishes things

This was a difficult review to write. I was immediately drawn into Lev Grossmans The Magicians, but then spent most of the remainder of the book wondering why I was reading it. The several parts of the book had a schizophrenic quality which didnt always seem to have much to do with preceding sections or what came after. Still, it was well-written and I appreciated Grossmans depiction of the magical world as something other than a place of awe and wonder. His rich, spoiled mages help create

(3.5? I might change it later) After deliberation I decided that the best way to describe this book is...A muggle born Draco Malfoy who grew up reading about Narnia, learns that magic is real and Narnia might be too...I think my main issue with his book was my own expectations. Too often people describe this book as Harry Potter books for grown ups and it's just not how I see it. The main character (all the characters actually!) is a depressed, "Iamverysmart" young adult who gets to go to a

A friend gave this book to me as a Christmas present, but the sneering reviews (on and inside the book) which compared it (oh-so-favorably) to Harry Potter/Narnia/LotR (proclaiming them "weak" and this strong and bracing and refreshing and...) kept repulsing me before I could even get to the first page. She's coming to visit me next month however and I'm determined to read it! Updates to follow!UPDATE 4: A miserable book about miserable people being miserable while doing miserable things written

I was ready to love this book, it's supposed to be Harry Potter like but more gritty, more realistic, more substantial, and I guess it is and I still like the idea of it. And yet this book did not work for me. I was really patient with it, I downplayed the initial irritation of incorporating the entire Potter premise. It's one thing to borrow bits and pieces, it's another to rip off a whole concept leaving out a few bits here and there and dressing up the rest. But since I'm a sucker for

1 Star: DNF @ 45%Look, I can put up with a lot, but I draw the line at weird artic-wolf furry sex. Throughout the magical training process, for some reason the students undergo challenge after challenge that involve being turned into his animal. Our main character (Quentin) and his friend (we rarely see them act friendly and instead just see him pine about how pretty she is and oh-god-the-friend-zone) are turned into wolves who retain their human consciousness but with overwhelming animal