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Summary: Once you read the Magician:Apprentice you are hooked!
Review: Wow! I have read each book in this series multiple times. They are impossible to put down once you have started reading them. Feist has created a world full of interesting characters and great plots. Each book is full of action. At no point is the reader bored. Magician:Apprentice and any other book by Feist is a must read!!!
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Summary: Must Read, riveting, Siskel and the dead guy two thumbs!
Review: This is an aweome book, and i'm only 14! You hafta read this book and it becomes addictive! Gotta read The riftwar saga series!
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Summary: Traditional Sword & Sorcery Tale Offers Light Fun.
Review: I'm finally getting around to reading Raymond Feist to find that much of what I deduced about his work from description by others was correct. This is primarily an event-driven storyline with little support that lacks the heft of later writers, such as Martin, Jordan, Kay, Hobb, Kerr, Williams, or Erickson, nor matches up to the more contemporaneous work in the early 80's of Stephen Donaldson. This is your commonplace sword and sworcery tale that traces it's lineage directly back to Tolkein, and has been covered - and continues to be - so often elsewhere. However, though lacking depth in either its characterizations or description, it nonetheless offers lighthearted enjoyment more inventive and pleasing than some of the other derivative "Ring" descendents, such as McKiernan, Brooks, or Eddings. Further, it appears to improve as the book goes along, offering the hope that as he wrote Feist continued to hone his skill and expand upon his tale. Perhaps he will prove to be another Guy Gavriel Kay, who wrote a similarly unfocused, at times imaginatively preposterous tale, "The Fionovar Trilogy," early in his career, only to follow it with the outstanding fantasies "Tigana," "Song for Arbonne," and "Lions of Al-Rasshad." We will see how book 2, "Magician: Master" progesses.I must say I am amazed by the level of praise heaped upon this work by earlier reviewers: Is it that you have yet to read better work, such as those of the authors mentioned above, or that you are naturally generous in nature? If the latter, a generous nature is preferable, I suppose, to one stingy, and perhaps I expose myself above to admission of this flaw. Afterall, the story was fun, if somewhat wanting. But if the former, I envy you the reading that waits ahead!
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: This has to be the beginning of the best series ever written. I read it in the combined version of "Magician" and it was by far the most entertaining book I have ever read.
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Summary: raptor-like in its delivery!
Review: I found this book very entertaining. Though the only things that riled me was the meandering plot which causd endless aggravations. I found it a good plot, the twists and turns certainly got me interested, though I felt I was being punished by not getting to the "good" parts fast enough for my liking. It is an interesting concept - pervassive evil from beyond the cosmos and alles, but what really got my attention was the cataclysmic battle on the Tsurani homeworld at the arena of death. I admit is sound a bit dramatic - but what the heck! His near omnipotence dazzled my eyes and I could not help but admire that a boy from lowly origins could achieve near godhood. The development of Tomas was hovering on the horror genre - an interesting twist in the saga. The development of "aliens" with primal technology and really eccentric and often brutal custom is worthy of praise. Imagine armour of wood???!!! The rest of the series is ho-hum, though some parts of the series is good. Silverthorn is average, but Darkness at Sethanon really deserves all the praise and honour to go with it!
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Summary: Absolutly awesome.
Review: This was the first taste of fantasy novels i ever had and it took a lot of encouragement from a good friend of mine to get me to read it. Even then it took me a couple of goes at getting into it. I thought he rambled on with too much bull**** and didn't get on with the story, but once I had gotten into it and realised everything written was in some way important to the story, I didn't look back. I have read Magician five times now and each time I pick up something new that i missed before or didn't understand. I recommend those people who have only read it once to do so again, you won't be dissapointed. For those who haven't read it, go and get it NOW! Go on. It's the best book available in this genre, and will introduce you to a world that is great to escape to compared to this crazy world we live in.
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Summary: This book was really good
Review: This is the first in the series of a great bunch novels. i found this one to be much better than the next ones but they are all very well written. if you like fantasy books, this is definatly a series to start reading.
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Summary: This book was Awsome
Review: I have to say, this book is the most awsome book ive ever read, and with the rest of the series, it blows away all competition, with only Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" standing firm, but i recomment anyone who loves fantasy to read this book, it has got everything you could ask for, and tons of it!!!
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Summary: feist rules baby
Review: the beginning of greatnes
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Summary: Very Entertaining!!
Review: This book is a great start to the series. It is about two teenage boys (Pug and Thomas), and their part in a deadly war that challenges both worlds. With many twists and turns to the plot, this book should be on everybody's list to read.
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