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Summary: Nice and Original
Review: High Wizardry is a very nice book. It's well written and displays an unusual sense of magic. Once again, like the other books, it has one main flaw: Duane loses her readers in the plot, through confusing description.
However, this book is still very good, and it stirs up emotions in you. The book provides insight on the characters, who once again are amazingly real.
It's a nice read before bed.
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Summary: Top notch, and top form
Review: High Wizardry is undoubtedly Duane at the top of her game. The characters are more complex than one anticipates in a young adult fantasy novel, and the writing more involved. Unambiguously some of Duane's very best work; High Wizardry is emotionally involving, thought provoking, intelligent, and well-informed, but in no sense a burden or chore to read.
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Summary: High Wizardry - The best of the series
Review: High Wizardry takes the reader and Dairine Callahan on an intergalactic journey. Using her computerized wizard's manual, Dairine travels across galaxies to a planet made of silicon. It is literally a giant computer. Meanwhile, Nita Callahan and Kit Rodriguez, along with Macchu Picchu, Senior wizards Tom and Carl's pet bird, trace her path. This trip ends with the quartet and some new friends of Dairine's meeting the Lone One Himself. The confrontation with the Lone Power is extremely exciting, leaving the reader unsure as to who would win. Overall, this novel is suspenseful, exciting, and humorous at some parts. The futuristic involvement only contributes to the elements of this novel.
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Summary: pretty good
Review: High Wizardry, unlike Deep Wizardry or So You want to be a
Wizard, focuses mainly on Dairine Callahan. Dairine was searching through Nita's wizardry manual when she absentminedly took the wizard's ordeal. When the Callahans get a new computer, Dairine makes a copy of it and uses it as her manual.
Dairine uses it for herself, unknowing that she is in debt with the lone power, and Nita and Kit have to find and warn her before it's too late...
I suggest reading So You want to Be a Wizard and Deep Wizardry before reading High Wizardry
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Summary: In my next life, I wanna be Peach.
Review: I *LOVE* this series! Here in High Wizardry, we spend some time with Dairine's Ordeal, and the deeper nature of Macchu Picchu (Peach to her...friends) is at last revealed. Where the "So You Want To Be A Wizard" was largely about action, and "Deep Wizardry" was more interpersonal development and self-realisation for Kit and Nita, this one switches to bring Dairine in, and is much more about Kit and Nita's emotional relationship. I especially love the scene on the Moon, before they set off. Gigo is one of the best new characters (until Neet's aunt), Peach gets a great scene, but don't think this is the end of the line for our favourite wizards!
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Summary: Good book, it but could be better
Review: I adore the Wizardry series, and while I enjoyed this book, it didn't fascinate me or grab like the others in the series have. Dairine seems to have enough talents already, without needing to add another item to the list of things she can do better than her older sister. Nita and Kit are more likable characters by far than Dairine, and I'm afraid that I don't understand why she needed a novel focusing on her. Why not a novel with a focus on Kit? Dairine's expertise in everything gave me a deeper appreciation of the other characters, who try hard, have flaws, have interesting relationships, and have limitations in their abilities, as opposed to a better understanding of Dairine as a person and a character. This book is good... but not the best in this wonderful series.
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Summary: Sadly disappointing
Review: I enjoyed the first two books in this series very much and was dissapointed by this installment. Diane Duane does not usually give easy answers to her moral dilemmas but in this story both the dilemma and the story were too easy and the story dragged down by the rather overtly gooey overtone.
As a convicted Christian I find the idea that the 'lone power' ie satan can be redeemed repellent- this stuff is poisoning kid's minds. This sequel was obviously written to milk the orginal concepts and make a bit more money and I think I would admire Diane Duane infinitely more if she had stuck to her integrity as an author.
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Summary: I love it!!
Review: I first found this series when I was at [a] bookstore in Indy (for those of you that don't live in Indiana, that's Indianapolis). I had seen the series before, when I wasn't a complete fantasy nut. I got the first book, and it turned out to be really great. I had to wait a looooooong time before we went to Indy again, but when we did, I got the 2nd book. It was great. The next week, we went to Bloomington (a 3 hr looooong drive), where we went to their [local bookstore]. I saw the 3rd book, and I had to get it. (I also got The Chrestomanci Chronicles, Volume 2, which is a great book for other fantasy nuts.) We were going to a bunch of early music concerts, so I read in the car, at the restaurant, and before the concert because the book was so good. I finished it in one day, and I read the preview in the back of the book. Bigggg mistake!!! Now I want the next book reallllly bad!!!!! (A good thing I had The Chrestomanci Chronicles, Volume 2 to take my mind off of the next books.)Anyway, if you haven't read this book you should , even if you aren't a fantasy nut. If you haven't read the previous books, read them first, because a lot of things from earlier books are mentioned in this one, and you could get confused easily if you don't read the other books.
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Summary: Great
Review: I love this book. It combines three of my favorite things in the world: magic, computers, and wizards! I love this series! I read the book 1st because I picked it up in the libary no knowing that it was part of a series. I have read all of them(that are out so far) except So you want to be a wizard?. I like the cheerful and carefree nature of Darine. She brings out the kid in all of us. I love the out-of-the-universe settings, the mystery, and fun She is a lot like me expect that I'm older. Read this book its great!!!!!
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Summary: good but not on par
Review: I really enjoyed So You Want to be a Wizard and absolutely adored Deep Wizardry; however, I found this book somewhat lacking. I thought the first half was pretty good, in which Darianne gets herself into a mess because she doesn't realize the responsibility that she is undertaking. However, I thought Duane should have continued the moralitly tale angle. Instead Darianne stumbles onto a deserted planet, converts it into a giant motherboard, and begins a new creation. I thought that Duane lost herself a bit in the climax of the story. It was comforting to achieve such a victory for the wizards, but I thought it all went a little too fast. Darianne changed from irresponsible brat to mother figure entirely too quickly and I just couldn't buy the transition. Furthermore, I think the characters of Kit and Nita are more fully developed and intersting to follow. Darianne was a really interesting side character in the first two novels, but she couldn't hold my interest throughout the entire book.
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