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Summary: Midkemia Here I Come
Review: Based around a young keep boy called pug, this story follows his journey through his apprentiship to the magician Kulgan. When I started to read this book I fell in love with the characters right away, you end up sympathising with them, laughing with them and crying with them. This book was one of the first fantasy novels I read and I loved it, the story has realism, adventure and heart ache rolled into one a must for first time fantasy readers. Enjoy the book folks I certainly did!
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Summary: A Book Rivaling Tolkien's Genius
Review: I think this book is the best book of all time. The inhabitants of Midkemia, and Kelewan, prove the greatest characters. The life of Pug, is a fantasy woven with extreme cunning. Feist is a genius with talent not seen since J.R. Tolkien. 5 Stars!
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Summary: Listen to me, YOU HAVE GOT TO READ THIS!
Review: This book is definetly for someone who wants to fall in love with the character their reading about. Right off the bat, within the first 50 pgs you already on your toes rooting for Pug. Believe me on this one, it is magically tastefull!
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Summary: Once you start, you won't stop.
Review: Warning! If you read this book be prepared to have some time free. Once I picked it up I couldn't stop. And it didn't stop until I read the whole series! I found the characters were creative and interesting and key ideas in the story were completely different than most fantasy books I have read. A flowing style that pulls you along. Get it now,a must read! What are you still doing here.....
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Summary: average
Review: Although some of Feist's later work is more interesting and original, Apprentice is strictly traditional. The charectors are nothing new, and are very one-dimensional-there isnt a genuinely bad person in the whole story! Also, Feist doesn't write warfare very well. He is better suited to adventues, political intrigue, and showing what life is like for his charectors. His world is well imagined though, and seems real. It can be an entertaining read, but it brings nothing new.
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Summary: A page-turner.
Review: This book is good. I am very busy right now, and yet I read both books in two weeks! I would get home by 10 and keep reading past midnight. I got a reference to this book in one of Peter Hamilton's books, and I'm glad I did. A great book.
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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!!!
Review: I've read it twice and have enjoyed it just as much the second time. It pulls you in, wraps you up, and sets your mind free with thoughts of fantasy and magic!!!
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Summary: Fiest is good, but not great.
Review: My reason for giving this 4 stars is simple, it's good, but not great. The whole story starts off sort of slow, but does pick up after Pug's rescuing Caroline (this isn't much of a give away). Indeed it was getting very interesting, espsecially after the night she went to Pug's room (no it's not what you thought, although I was certainly impyling it). It's contains plenty of action, adventure, intrigue, a little romance (unfortunately not enough). Being a writer myself (not a professional, I'm only 14), I do see many ideas in Fiest's fantasy that could spawn off a well written series. If you haven't read this yet and you're looking for something different to read besides Tolkien, I suppose this is a good choice, though you may not like it. All I can say is, if you don't like this book, you probably won't like the sequel.
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Summary: Raymond Feist is an amazing writer!
Review: All of Feist's books never fail to capture me and make me a part of the story. His characters have so many facets and are well developed throughout each story. By the end of each of his books I always feel a pang of regret that I have to finish and leave the vivid world Feist created.
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Summary: In response to two previous reviews:
Review: In reference to Krung Thep, Siam, and partly to A reader from Albuquerque, New Mexico Original ideas hmmm? It has been said that 'there are no more original ideas being formulated in the world,' I feel this in a sense may be true. It is easy to see the unoriginality in the film industry with companies continually 'remaking' or 'remastering' old classic movies. BUT, I do not believe this applies to Fiest's books. Naturally for any book or movie the story is usually generated from life and fiction. For example the Ferryman scene (actually in A darkness at Sethanon, but the idea still applies) this is based upon a religious belief, and is also found in many other stories, books, as the idea involving death and the crossing from this life to the next. But what's wrong with that? Surely even Tolkien himself borrowed similar ideas from nature, and life, as any good author would. Does that mean that the author is not being original? What's wrong with having a similar idea in a book as long as it is used in a more original way than the first? I was under the impression that Fiest simply wrote this book, without having read many, if any fantasy books previously, which I might add, would give him far more free range to write, without any restrictions infringed by the books he had already read. And if that was true, how could you say what he wrote was unoriginal. As another person said previously about people needing to read other authors... I have and personally I don't think any of them compare to Feist, but naturally that's my own view, whoever reads this may disagree, that's fine, you are allowed to. One other thing: I also believe the author a person prefers in a particular genre is usually the first that they read. In my case it was Fiest, and so whenever I read another fantasy author it is naturally compared to his work, and in nearly every case I feel that they don't even compare. But again that's just me; it's up to the individuals own likes and dislikes to choose what they look for in a good author. But for me, Feist is the best. Oh yes, before I forget: why do people continuously compare Feist with Tolkien? Their books are written in completely different styles, and I also don't see any obvious similarities between the two. I mean sure, if you look hard enough you'll find similarities in anything but usually it's only because you want to see them. Personally I don't really like Tolkien's work, but that's just one persons opinion compared to thousands. I have already written a preious review so I feel that there isn't any real need to say that Feist is my favourite author or that he inspired me to read in general, or that he also inspired me to write and all the rest of it. (Ooops, it would appear I already have.) Thankyou for your time. Live long and prosper. (Hang on that's not from a Fiest book... oh well.)
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