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12-06-2013 10:54 PM |
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Originally Posted by Malisyn Wonderland
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I've never heard of it. I take it it's worth the read? What's it about?
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It is, indeed. Bit hard to peg what it's about without giving some of it away or failing to do it justice, to be honest. I could say it's a coming of age story of a sort, that it has a magic academy, fun hijinks, and manages to explain the unexplainable in the most beautiful of ways...that it plays with cliches and turns expectations on their heads, and happens to be oh so quotable, and all of those things would be true. They still wouldn't quite do it justice.
Here are a few quotes to give you a sense of it.
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“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
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“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
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“Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.”
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