The Magicians

Lev Grossman was born in Massachusetts in 1969 and studied literature at Harvard and Yale. He is currently a writer and book critic for Time Magazine. He has written feature articles for Salon, Lingua Franca, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York and The Village Voice, and was previously the producer of timedigital.com, Time magazine's personal technology website. He lives in Brooklyn.

出版者:Viking Adult

作者:Lev Grossman

页数:416

出版时间:2009-8-11

价格:$26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670020553

图书标签:奇幻LevGrossman外國小說英语英文原版小说外国文学艺术

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.

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.

“Stirring, complex, adventurous . . . from the life of Quentin Coldwater, his slacker Park Slope Harry Potter, Lev Grossman delivers superb coming of age fantasy.”-Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Remember the last time you ran home to finish a book? This is it, folks. The Magicians is the most dazzling, erudite and thoughtful fantasy novel to date. You'll be bedazzled by the magic but also brought short by what it has to say about the world we live in."-Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russain Debutante's Handbook

读后感

在英美人民的普遍印象中，喜欢看科幻/奇幻的孩子一般都是孤独的。 他们是那些不善社交的不知道该如何融入人群的孩子。有一天他们翻开了一本阿西莫夫或者一本纳尼亚，发现了一个美好的世界，于是他们如饥似渴地阅读，因为书里的世界是多么美丽啊。 幻想文学给予人一个逃避的契机...  

在英美人民的普遍印象中，喜欢看科幻/奇幻的孩子一般都是孤独的。 他们是那些不善社交的不知道该如何融入人群的孩子。有一天他们翻开了一本阿西莫夫或者一本纳尼亚，发现了一个美好的世界，于是他们如饥似渴地阅读，因为书里的世界是多么美丽啊。 幻想文学给予人一个逃避的契机...  

在英美人民的普遍印象中，喜欢看科幻/奇幻的孩子一般都是孤独的。 他们是那些不善社交的不知道该如何融入人群的孩子。有一天他们翻开了一本阿西莫夫或者一本纳尼亚，发现了一个美好的世界，于是他们如饥似渴地阅读，因为书里的世界是多么美丽啊。 幻想文学给予人一个逃避的契机...  

少年昆廷从一个普通的为学业烦恼的少年，迈入了一个自己以前从未知道的魔法学校，从此走进了一个不平凡的魔法未来。 　　 　　在这个奇妙又紧张的魔法学校，并不是就像哈利波特里面展现的霍格沃兹一样有趣又充满个各种奇幻的生物和冒险。与昆廷少年所加入的布雷克比尔斯魔...

用户评价

写出这么狗屎的主角，只能给一星。

too many magicians, not enough monsters~~

有些地方挺逗的...

居然说哈利波特是水，而这本书是威士忌，太嚣张了吧。

关于魔法的部分描述还行，其他就是写给小青年看到所谓看破红尘的陈词滥调。了解故事，直接看wiki介绍就够了。后两本都省了