false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166573520m/13812.jpg 13812 12 To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. 15983 1982 Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1) total:3194|5:1286|4:1171|3:599|2:113|1:25| 3194 13162 3981 197 4 4 false false Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:48:36 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:49:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Fri Jun 06 23:48:08 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 19:53:17 -0700 2008
It was n...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jul 04 11:27:57 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 11:34:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 00:03:39 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 09:50:42 -0700 2007 Magician: Master, is one of the best books from Feist I've read yet. As it happens, I started with the latest series (the one with Talon), and worked my way backwards....

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The book probably seemed more creative at the time that it was written, but read in the present seems ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:35:28 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:55:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 09:25:30 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 10:18:58 -0800 2008
I was very taken with the author I read next, George R. R. Mart...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:05:22 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:21:51 -0700 2009
I saw what looked like typical fantasy novel with the perfect novelist's name (Long first name in small print over a short last name writ large) and d...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 02 00:47:22 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:47:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Tue Dec 11 19:36:47 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 19:40:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Wed Oct 07 18:03:13 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 16:17:15 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 23 13:41:04 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 13:45:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 06 14:05:45 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 14:07:04 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Jul 25 12:13:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 05:52:02 -0700 2009
The central characters start out as children and grow up through the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Fri Oct 23 14:41:54 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 20:29:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 18:20:28 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 18:43:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 17:06:05 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 17:12:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 31 10:49:37 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 10:57:04 -0700 2009 When reading this book, some parts of the story feel rushed and contrived. I'd still recommend reading it, as it leads into the second book, which is where Feist really shines. He puts together a good story, and there is a lot of creativity in his story...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=13812