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Where's the what are you reading guy? What are you reading?
I picked up some random book lying around. It’s Magician: Master by Raymond Feist, and I am not impressed. I don’t read much fantasy though.
Style is terrible, Dialogue sucks, ideas are uninteresting, and this latest plot point is preposterous:
The hero was a slave in a foreign society, but he is recognized as a powerful magic user, brainwashed and trained into an order of magicians. But he secretly still feels loyalty to his old world and their superior ways.
He goes to the king’s arena, and at the sight of the gladatorial games taking place, he loses his shit, threatens the king, magically annihilates hundreds of spectators, while all the other magicians can do nothing to stop him. Then half the foreign characters, who were laughing at the gladiators a second ago, congratulate him on his moral fortitude, and he fucks off back to his old world.
Why is he like 1000 times stronger than other magicians? Why didn’t he just take over the kingdom and end slavery, which he has painful personal experience with, instead of these games? Why is no one appalled at the loss of life? Why is everyone suddenly on a completely different moral wawelength?
I first heard about Feist from the Digital Antiquarian’s comments on Betrayal at Krondor. Since then I keep seeing his books in used bookstores. They’ve always looked a bit rough for me, despite my generally high tolerance for fantasy bullshit.
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