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Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga #2)
He held the fate of two worlds in his hands...
Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.
There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay with...more
Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.
There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay with...more
Mass Market Paperback, Author's Preferred Edition, 499 pages
Published
December 1st 1993
by Spectra
(first published 1984)
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Magician: Master is a deeply engrossing story which is fairly straight forward from beginning to end. Based on the title of the novel and the actions in Magician: Apprentice it is obvious that the book will revolve around Pug’s capture and his training to become a Master Magician. This book involves more political intrigue and less action than Magician: Apprentice but the author manages to make the political intrigue interesting enough to make me not lose interest in reading the novel.
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A well realised, clever political story. That said it really was a take in two acts for me.
The first act made me feel that the author was reading LOTR while he was writing. 'The pass is blocked we will have to go through the mines'!! Hmmm where have I heard that before? If I hadn't been a fan of the genre I would have stopped reading here.
But I'm glad I didn't because the second act is brilliantly original. I really liked ...more
A well realised, clever political story. That said it really was a take in two acts for me.
The first act made me feel that the author was reading LOTR while he was writing. 'The pass is blocked we will have to go through the mines'!! Hmmm where have I heard that before? If I hadn't been a fan of the genre I would have stopped reading here.
But I'm glad I didn't because the second act is brilliantly original. I really liked ...more
I love the Magician Apprentice and this one the most out of all the series by far and well the other seem to lose stream after a well the character became segmented in their roles and things started to change for the worse as plots an outcomes were becoming more predicable and less intriguing thing before as more books came out it same to be that the,main characters along with their emotion changed to fast for me and that problem continues as in the first two books i could live with.But the oth...more
Since I have read this book previously and enjoyed it, I felt like I'd be in for the same treat. Unfortunately, this series is failing to live up to what I remember it to be. Pug as a slave and a Great One was great. A powerful plot string and an intriguing look into another culture. Every other plot line in the book, however, failed to interest me. I skipped entire sailing and pirating sections of unimportant travel, as well as overly descriptive battle scenes. Tomas' plight was interesting, th...more
Magician: Master, the second half of Raymond E. Feist's 'Magician,' (after it was subdivided for audiences with shorter attention spans) picks up some years after the first half ends. Pug has been captured and enslaved on Kelewan, serving the Tsurani. One day, a passing Great One (magic user) notices Pug's latent power and immediately takes him for magical training. Unlike Pug's home world of Midkemia, on Kelewan, magic users are revered, as they form the basic protective and governing body of t...more
I really enjoyed this conclusion! Although, I must admit, that for the sake of convenience, I am much relieved that Apprentice and Master are broken up into their own volumes. Two characters that I recalled quite fondly from the first time reading this series, Amos Trask and Jimmy the Hand, play larger roles here, and I am quite excited to continue reading this series. And while this is a conclusion, of sorts, by the end there are still many questions raised and issues left unresolved at the end...more
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Surprisingly good. I picked this up expecting it to be another fat fantasy novel to read for fun, but it had some creative story and setting elements tat set it apart from the dime a dozen other fantasy paperbacks that you can find at used book stores. The character development was also good enough that I cared about what happened to them.
As an aside, the women, who are supposed to be "strong" are rather boring and don't actually do anything that *shows* that there strong...more
As an aside, the women, who are supposed to be "strong" are rather boring and don't actually do anything that *shows* that there strong...more
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One of my favorites. It is not often that an author will take a character and grant them huge power and still write about them. Pug and Tomas each grow beyond the scope that characters are usually allowed to reach in a series of books. In the Riftwar Saga, the focus does shift from these two fellows and tends to follow events of the world. They are however always there and remarkably still growing. It all begins in Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master (Originally published one volume, ...more
It's a guilty pleasure. Extremely enjoyable, even though many aspects of the book are directly ripped off from Tolkien and other older fantasy books. The best book in the Riftwar series.
This is one of the few fantasy books I've read where all the characters are basically good people. And it's not because there are especially deep character portrayals. It's just that everyone, even when they are enemies, are either good, or at least not fundamentally bad.
Overall, I liked this book. The first two books of this series (this one and Magician:Apprentice) were originally a single book, and the two of them are complete on their own. There are very few loose ends left a...more
Overall, I liked this book. The first two books of this series (this one and Magician:Apprentice) were originally a single book, and the two of them are complete on their own. There are very few loose ends left a...more
Magician: Master is the sequel to Magician: Apprentice, but it is really the second half of a larger book (Magician was originally published in a single volume and later split for the “author’s preferred edition”).
The book opens with a three and a half page summary of the events of the first book. Essentially jumping in at the middle, we find our protagonists are hip-deep in conflict. After his capture, Pug has been transported to Kelewan and made a slave. Tomas’s powers continue ...more
The book opens with a three and a half page summary of the events of the first book. Essentially jumping in at the middle, we find our protagonists are hip-deep in conflict. After his capture, Pug has been transported to Kelewan and made a slave. Tomas’s powers continue ...more
Although not as good as the first, I enjoyed this two book series. Pug is a slave in the world of the Tsurunami. Through an exciting journey he finds the key to his magic and becomes master. He is then able to tip the balance and play a key role in the ongoing war between his people and the otherworld people. I felt like the book climaxed about half-way through and with the long resolution, still left much unexplained. I enjoyed Pug and Thomas as main characters in this book, but I hope some...more
O segundo volume de "Mago", intitulado "Mestre" é uma soberba continuação da história de Pug, Tomas e do conflito entre dois mundos. Se no primeiro volume a história se concentra em Midkemia, neste segundo volume o autor proporciona-nos a perspectiva dos invasores e do respectivo mundo, mais concretamente Tsuranuanni. Continua aqui a existir uma narrativa repleta de acção, recheada de reflexões muito interessantes sobre o auto-conhecimento, o valor da amizade e a essência da ...more
Si Pug l’apprenti avait été une très bonne surprise, Milamber le mage va encore plus loin. La suite de la guerre de la faille n’est que plus palpitante et gagne en envergure. Tout va se conclure dans un maelström de sang et de sentiments entre les Pug, Kulgan, Arutha, Lyam, Borric, Rodric, Guy, Macros le Noir, les Tsurani, les Shinzawai, etc. Assurément une grande épopée qui reprend les poncifs tolkienniens en y incluant une petite touche de convivialité et de proximité avec les personnages, ain...more
Raymond Feist has a gift for world building. I was a fan of the world for midkemia, but it wasn't until we started to explore Kelwan that I understood what an incredible writer he was.
I don't feel like there is a ton of originality in this book and the rest of the rift war saga, but it is the single best incarnation of many of the familiar fantasy tropes.
Read this book and its predecessor. Recommend it to those who haven't read it. If you are a teen, and ready to t...more
I don't feel like there is a ton of originality in this book and the rest of the rift war saga, but it is the single best incarnation of many of the familiar fantasy tropes.
Read this book and its predecessor. Recommend it to those who haven't read it. If you are a teen, and ready to t...more
#89b Despite the lingering Tolkien taste, this book was much more unique as the true meaning of the Rift War title developed. I truly grew to love so many of the characters and I was happy with the resolutions they found. I love that I can read on in the series without feeling like I have to do it immediately because there was a firm conclusion to this book. This book comes close to five stars, but lacks a little in artistic merits (his plots and characters are great, but general literary sk...more
"Magician" is all grown up! I feel that the story has aptly grown like its title. "Master" compared to "Apprentice" represents a new maturity in storytelling. The boy heroes have become men, and the themes and ambitions of the series have matured accordingly. If the first book was a fun boys' adventure story about castles, princesses, and military campaigns, the second book's narrative arc broadens to encompass the epic creation of civilizations and a new (yet ancie...more
Neste livro ficamos a conhecer o mundo dos Tsurani (Kelewan), pelos olhos do astuto aprendiz de mago, Pug e apercebemo-nos da existência de estranhas raças inteligentes como os Cho-já (criaturas semelhantes a formigas) e os Thūn (criaturas tipo centauro). Em Kelewan, Feist criou uma sociedade bem diferente da de Midkemia, com regras extremamente rígidas e punições severas, um mundo ávido de guerras e conquistas, onde o Jogo do Concelho é uma constante.
Tal como em O Mago – Aprendiz, e...more
Tal como em O Mago – Aprendiz, e...more
The second half of Magician became increasingly dark as I approached the climactic end to the Kelewan-Midkemian Riftwar. I observed definite growth to full maturity between Pug and Tomas, and perhaps that growth from boyhood through young adult into adulthood is what I lament - the rite of passage of most normal young boys, though Pug and Tomas could never be mistaken for normal. While everything seemed wondrous and adventurous in the first half of the novel (also known as Magician: Apprentice...more
Having read many other fantasy series (including Brent Weeks, Robin Hobb, Steven Erikson, Brandon Sanderson, etc.) this book (Apprentice and Master) really just does not compare. I enjoyed the story and characters, but there were so many holes.
1. Descriptions of the characters, especially Arutha, were strange and did not appear to be true from the interactions shown in the book. For example, Feist repeatedly describes Arutha as moody, but he does not appear moody at all - in fact, he see...more
1. Descriptions of the characters, especially Arutha, were strange and did not appear to be true from the interactions shown in the book. For example, Feist repeatedly describes Arutha as moody, but he does not appear moody at all - in fact, he see...more
Estamos, de verdade, perante um épico de fantasia e sabendo eu agora que este segundo tomo correspondeu em tempos à segunda metade de um original não teria julgado o primeiro volume "O Mago - Aprendiz" tão levianamente. O que antes me pareceram personagens estereotipadas e apressadas na formação do seu carácter, revelaram-se muito mais, com uma densidade psicológica maior, moldando-se aos olhos do leitor.
Os sucessivos lapsos de tempo, ou melhor dizendo, saltos, apresentam-se agor...more
Os sucessivos lapsos de tempo, ou melhor dizendo, saltos, apresentam-se agor...more
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This was my second time reading Magician: Master, and I think I loved it just as much as the first time around. I read (and am rating) this separately from Magician: Apprentice, despite the fact that both books were originally published as one volume. Partly that's because I'm doing this as a group read, and it was easier length wise to tackle one volume per month. But more so it's because that's how I originally read it. When I first picked up Apprentice, I had no idea it was only half of the s...more
Although I've given this book only three stars, I think many others would find this book much more intriguing than I did. As a fantasy novel, I believe the characters are well built and the plot line is strong; however, my mind drowns in the military strategy and settings that Feist shares excessively in this series. The book itself is a good one, just not my taste. I feel compelled to complete the series, but I do not expect that the remaining books will be any less militaristic.
The best Fantasy book I have ever read. Totally fell in love with the characters and the world that Feist created and I couldn't put it down. If you are just starting out in the 'fantasty genre' I recommend this as a good starter. Feist's imagination is wonderous! You should see my very battered copy of this book - have had it for 15 years and have read it probably 15 times. It is my 'if I could choose one book to take with me if I was to be stranded on an island' read!!
-- The Riftwar Saga --
(7/10) Magician: Apprentice (Book One: Part 1)
(7.5/10) Magician: Master (Book One: Part 2)
The Riftwar Saga is a relatively famous fantasy series. An interesting enough story line, but the writing is relatively simple and the plot is somewhat predictable and seems to borrow from Tolkien. I liked the second book better, although still didn't find myself caring too much what happened to the characters. The story is intersting enough.
(7/10) Magician: Apprentice (Book One: Part 1)
(7.5/10) Magician: Master (Book One: Part 2)
The Riftwar Saga is a relatively famous fantasy series. An interesting enough story line, but the writing is relatively simple and the plot is somewhat predictable and seems to borrow from Tolkien. I liked the second book better, although still didn't find myself caring too much what happened to the characters. The story is intersting enough.
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sword and sorcery readers and people who like politics in their fantasy books
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I read the author's preferred edition of this book (which is the literary equivalent of a director's cut of a movie) and it contains 15,000 words more than the original version.
I enjoyed the narrative and the premise was attractive enough: a coming-of-age tale of two boys from a border kingdom called Crydee in the land of Midkemia as they unwittingly stumble into, and play major parts in, the first of the major wars between their world and Kelewan.
I was hooked initially b...more
I enjoyed the narrative and the premise was attractive enough: a coming-of-age tale of two boys from a border kingdom called Crydee in the land of Midkemia as they unwittingly stumble into, and play major parts in, the first of the major wars between their world and Kelewan.
I was hooked initially b...more
The Riftwar Saga consists of:
Magician: Apprentice
Magician: Master
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon
This straightforward fantasy saga is very well plotted and written by Dungeons and Dragons aficionado Feist. I am not much into fantasy, but if you want a truly epic tale with kingdoms, magic and so forth, you won’t go wrong with this.
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Magician: Apprentice
Magician: Master
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon
This straightforward fantasy saga is very well plotted and written by Dungeons and Dragons aficionado Feist. I am not much into fantasy, but if you want a truly epic tale with kingdoms, magic and so forth, you won’t go wrong with this.
http://www.books.rosboch.net/?p=699
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Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-fathers surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician. He wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 19...more
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