#Raymond e feist magician full
Full of exciting action, interesting characters, a really epic plot and a truly wonderful setting, Magician is a must-read massive novel as far as I’m concerned. Tomas and Pug experience some really extraordinary adventures in their rise to power and together they become embroiled in some really amazing and epic events that date back to thousands of years in their world’s past. Magician is primarily the tale of two boyhood friends’ rise to power from extremely humble beginnings, one the son of kitchen servants to a frontier (but politically powerful) Duke, and the other an orphan with none to claim him.
That was a really great time for me, because I was discovering so many great books one after the other, and there was something about the adventures of Pug and Tomas and their friends that really drew me in to this world that Feist had created. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and soon after Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Chronicles.
When I started out reading epic fantasy/space opera back in freshman year of high school, it was one of the very first books I read, soon after J. Feist’s Magician remains, to this day, one of the finest examples of traditional epic fantasy that I’ve read. Perhaps if I get bored I'll come back to finishing this book/series. I'd like to rename the book to be - Possible Magician: Disappears. It doesn't portend good things for the rest of the books in the series.
#Raymond e feist magician series
I'm sure the series will eventually get to developing Pug, but a 17 hour book and only one instance of him (a magician) using magic in the first like 2 hours is kind of dumb to me (and being ignored in the book for the last 8 hours). I'd argue the side characters (Thomas or Roland) would be considered far more developed than Pug is at this point. If you don't care about the main character just being dropped from existence for at least hours 8 -> 16 then this book is great. Great writing, well-rounded characters, interesting story. I'm sure that by the time I finish the rest of the Riftwar books, I won't be able to imagine another narrator in his place. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad by a long shot, or even off-putting enough that I wouldn't want to listen, it's just my $0.02. Without wording prompts of who was speaking, a few of the characters come across sounding the same. My only (very slight) criticism that kept it from being 5 stars (I would have gone 4.5 if I could) is a bit of a lack of range on his characterizations. While I did only give four stars on the performance, I don't mean that as a knock on his ability. Nicholas Guy Smith is an excellent narrator. I will confess that there may be some rose-colored nostalgia in this for me, but I still am really enjoying this audio version. The world(s) is(are) well developed but the author lets you discover it organically as the story progresses, as opposed to an info-dump of world-building. The characters are compelling and grow and develop with the story. I haven't read it in years, and I was afraid my nostalgia was overshadowing the reality of the book but it really does stand up to my memory of it. This wasn't the first fantasy novel I ever read, but it was the first that brought a world to life for me and really dragged me in to the genre.
I'm only halfway through the audio, but I think I can safely write a review at this time.
The book that started my love of the Fantasy genre
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