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Title: It is about magic but there is no magic in it
Review: Just a look at several different reviews and you get the idea - people either love that book or are bored to death. I honestly tried - and reached about half through before I decided that life was too short to spend it on this volume.There is no plot - really, there isn't. The so called "well developed characters" are indeed, well developed - at the very beginning, but after that they simply do not change that much. Nothing happens for pages and pages. I do admit that the language is beautiful and text-wise it is good work.But "Lord of the Rings" keeps you in its magic spell when you read it, or "Big Fish" or "Time Enough For Love" or LeGuin's EarthSea books. They all have magic. This one doesn't - even though it is written about it. I simply did not want to meet any of the characters again and for me that's enough reason not to finish the book.
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