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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 6335351" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>Welp ... I LOVE the Magicians and its sequel, but it's not what I think that article makes it out to be.</p><p></p><p>Just like the previous "Harry Potter for adults," Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (which I also love), it's a literary story more than an adventure one. The first novel is basically a great coming of age tale, looking at the changes one goes through in college and the difficulty of finding oneself a fulfilling role in the years after college. I'm still in the middle of the second one, but so far, it's about the lack of fulfillment in adult life, when you've achieved all you're supposed to have dreamed of.</p><p></p><p>It's not a novel of high adventure and outsized feelings, but quiet inner struggle and disappointment.</p><p></p><p>Even the novel's counterpart to Quidditch, Welters, is self-consciously (the books are very aware of Harry Potter and the characters make lots of wry jokes about it) even more impenetrable and a lot less interesting, sort of a magical shuffleboard that most of the characters have trouble understanding.</p><p></p><p>The school of magic is explicitly modeled on the American prep schools of the elite and the post-grad life of mainstream magical society is based on 1 percenter douchebags. Paris Hilton, if she was a bit less publicity-hungry, would fit in well with the Brakebills crowd after graduation.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, while I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with this, it's the kind of property I'd feel much more comfortable with, say, an indie filmmaker tackling, whether for the big screen or the small.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 6335351, member: 11760"] Welp ... I LOVE the Magicians and its sequel, but it's not what I think that article makes it out to be. Just like the previous "Harry Potter for adults," Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (which I also love), it's a literary story more than an adventure one. The first novel is basically a great coming of age tale, looking at the changes one goes through in college and the difficulty of finding oneself a fulfilling role in the years after college. I'm still in the middle of the second one, but so far, it's about the lack of fulfillment in adult life, when you've achieved all you're supposed to have dreamed of. It's not a novel of high adventure and outsized feelings, but quiet inner struggle and disappointment. Even the novel's counterpart to Quidditch, Welters, is self-consciously (the books are very aware of Harry Potter and the characters make lots of wry jokes about it) even more impenetrable and a lot less interesting, sort of a magical shuffleboard that most of the characters have trouble understanding. The school of magic is explicitly modeled on the American prep schools of the elite and the post-grad life of mainstream magical society is based on 1 percenter douchebags. Paris Hilton, if she was a bit less publicity-hungry, would fit in well with the Brakebills crowd after graduation. Honestly, while I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with this, it's the kind of property I'd feel much more comfortable with, say, an indie filmmaker tackling, whether for the big screen or the small. [/QUOTE]
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