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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
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finished rereading The Magicians. tentatively, i’m not sure the ending of this book really works thematically. there’s this clear theme about how magic won’t solve nihilism and ennui and when they decide to go back at the end it undermines that theme
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
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rereading The Magicians and hyperfocusing this time on any scene involving anyone’s parents
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
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a lot of stuff happens very quickly and in particular the big reveal that everything was set up by jane using a time machine changes the meaning of everything that happened previously and i can’t tell what if anything it has to do with the nihilism / ennui theme
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
martin chatwin is an amazing villain though, a million times creepier and more interesting than voldemort but overall i feel like i have no objections until they hit fillory and then i really wonder how the entire last third could be made thematically tighter
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
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if you take the first two-thirds of the book at face value, totally seriously, and run them forward, then i think what you get is that everyone dies in fillory because they suck and brakebills sucked. eaten alive by their own narcissism and self-hatred
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Berarom
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I haven't read it (only the first thirty or so pages) and I find it interesting from what I've heard as a HP deconstruction (I am a HP fan). It's the Narnia/Fillory stuff that turns me off it.
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