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reviewed The magicians by Lev Grossman (Book one of the Magicians trilogy)

Lev Grossman: The magicians (2015, A Plume Book)

"Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up …

Never so intensely bimodal a reaction

This is a 4+ with demerits or a 2- with extra credit, pick your preference.

What a petulant, nihilist, entitled, waste of a richly-tapestried imagination

If I wanted to spend that much time with a whiny piece of shit I’d just read Catcher in the Rye

Such immense world building for so little payoff, I’m disgusted

But will I go looking for more in case it gets better? Probably, yes