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lunaseassecondaccount 's review for:
Magician
by Raymond E. Feist
Long book is long- and extremely slow. It was very difficult for me to really get into this book. Normally I find with books like this there are often parts that I get sucked into, and it eats up several chapters before I know it. However, with this book, these points were few and far between, and often lasted maybe half a chapter.
A big problem I found was the pacing. It was difficult to judge time in these books. I would turn a page, and we'd have skipped to four years in the future. Another couple of pages, and two years have gone by. By the end, I thought we were some twenty years ahead since the beginning of the book, but nope, only nine years had gone by. A second problem I had was that there were so many characters doing different things that were somewhat connected that it was difficult to keep all the plots going and remember what characters were involved where.
Given the difficulty I had with going through this book, it's really set me far back in my reading goal for the year. But hell, knowing me, I might go and read the second book (third?) in the series- it's apparently a lot shorter. Also, given the first edition of this book is some two hundred pages shorter, it's a good indication on how much of this book could have been cut out without effecting the storyline.
A big problem I found was the pacing. It was difficult to judge time in these books. I would turn a page, and we'd have skipped to four years in the future. Another couple of pages, and two years have gone by. By the end, I thought we were some twenty years ahead since the beginning of the book, but nope, only nine years had gone by. A second problem I had was that there were so many characters doing different things that were somewhat connected that it was difficult to keep all the plots going and remember what characters were involved where.
Given the difficulty I had with going through this book, it's really set me far back in my reading goal for the year. But hell, knowing me, I might go and read the second book (third?) in the series- it's apparently a lot shorter. Also, given the first edition of this book is some two hundred pages shorter, it's a good indication on how much of this book could have been cut out without effecting the storyline.