The Magicians by Lev Grossman

cuterebra · 18th-September-2009, 01:07 AM

I just finished it--easily one of my favorite new books to come out in the past few years. Fun and engaging, but not without literary style--it was sort of like Harry Potter for grown-ups, with sex and drugs and ambiguity...

Anybody else read it yet?

Invoke Ninja's True Power · 18th-September-2009, 01:37 AM

Kinda off subject but I always think of good movies that could be a little more adult themed, not like obscene gore or porno or anything but not fluffy either. Like someone's arm getting ripped off with a light saber and actually seeing the cauterized, charred end of the limb, and a realistic amount of gore, and appropriate dialogue to use star wars as an example. I mean hell there have been enough remasters and extra scenes added it wouldn't be so far of a stretch.

cuterebra · 18th-September-2009, 08:19 PM

I think I know what you mean. There seems to be a divide between fantasy and realism, in film and fiction. I'd like to see more blending as well.

18th-September-2009, 01:07 AM	cuterebra's time 17th-September-2009, 07:07 PM #1
cuterebra Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 117	The Magicians by Lev Grossman I just finished it--easily one of my favorite new books to come out in the past few years. Fun and engaging, but not without literary style--it was sort of like Harry Potter for grown-ups, with sex and drugs and ambiguity... Anybody else read it yet?

18th-September-2009, 01:37 AM	Invoke Ninja's True Power's time 17th-September-2009, 08:37 PM #2
Invoke Ninja's True Power ^_^ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: metro Detroit area Posts: 746	Re: The Magicians by Lev Grossman Kinda off subject but I always think of good movies that could be a little more adult themed, not like obscene gore or porno or anything but not fluffy either. Like someone's arm getting ripped off with a light saber and actually seeing the cauterized, charred end of the limb, and a realistic amount of gore, and appropriate dialogue to use star wars as an example. I mean hell there have been enough remasters and extra scenes added it wouldn't be so far of a stretch. __________________ An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. - Aldous Huxley There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. -Frank Zappa My personality type with multiple intelligences

18th-September-2009, 08:19 PM	cuterebra's time 18th-September-2009, 02:19 PM #3
cuterebra Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 117	Re: The Magicians by Lev Grossman I think I know what you mean. There seems to be a divide between fantasy and realism, in film and fiction. I'd like to see more blending as well.

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