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Lev Grossman: The magicians (2009, Viking) 3 stars

A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the …

Review of 'The magicians' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

There's something to be said for making your book as difficult to be adapted by Hollywood as possible. It's also good to write in such a fashion with nicely incorporated hints of metafiction that the reader has such a difficult time anticipating the directions the story will go. There is something in the rootlessness and alienation of the main character that made me think about Fight Club somehow. Before too long I'll pick up the second book in the series to see what surprises the author has invented for these characters.