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He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.

At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.]]> 142270 3.30 2413 920 2009 Intriguing so far, but I'm always intimidated when I read about ppl both younger and smarter than me. 0 2009-10-26T15:02:22-07:00 1500974 20 2009-10-26T15:02:22-07:00 3 0 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:01:18 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 13:18:10 -0800 2009 more...]]>