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I grabbed this book when the word of mouth I heard on it, "Like Harry Potter but Harry would have been dead in the first 10 minutes."

I am not sure this book is "Young Adult."  It takes place with a miserable high school kid who gets caught up in a Magic Prep School, but there's all kinds of kinky sex and violence, so I dunno.

The Harry Potter stories exist in their universe, and they ironically use Rowlingisms like, "We'll get together later... send me an owl."  But, the crux of the story is Not-Narnia, and how utterly miserable all of them are.

I dunno.  Interesting read if you are in the mood for some magics.  I'll read the sequel and see what up.

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Read the sequel. It is better, IMO, because the main guy is older and less of a moping shit.

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Third book came out recently, and holds up.  The three together are a pretty good arc, and a completed story.  i don't know if there are any plans to continue it, but they don't need to.  Loose ends tied.

I'll reread these again in a few years back to back, and will probably enjoy them more without the year waits in between.

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Making a miniseries of it.  And since it is the SyFy channel you KNOW it's going to be really good.

http://nerdist.com/the-magicians-makes-magic-with-syfy/

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Quentin, who's supposed to be 18/19, looks 28.


       
       
       
       

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Could be interesting.  It certainly had a couple of good lines.  If the show leans more towards dry humor instead of straight emo drama, I'll try it.

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Yeah, I'm REALLY hoping they don't carry the "moping shits" of characters into the show, but considering their target audience are probably all moping shits, they probably will.

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Had the first episode since forever ago, finally watched it.

It is serviceable.  For some reason they are making the "protagonist" some sort of "The One" instead of an unusually talented random guy who stumbles in on some weird shit, but so far I wont let it bug me.  They made the character less annoying than he was in the first book, so that's good.

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