Lev Grossman
Autor(a) de The Magicians
About the Author
Lev Grossman was born on June 26, 1969. He received a degree in literature from Harvard University in 1991. He spent three years in the Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Yale University, but left before completing his dissertation. In 2002, he became a book reviewer and one of the lead mostrar mais technology writers for Time magazine. He has written for Salon, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, The Believer, Lingua Franca, and the New York Times. His first novel, Warp, was published in 1997. His other novels include Codex, The Magicians, which won a 2010 Alex Award, The Magician King and The Magician's Land. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Lev Grossman
The Bright Sword 5 exemplares
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things [2021 film] — Autor — 4 exemplares
The Magician's Land: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) 3 exemplares
The Duel [short story] 2 exemplares
Endgame [short story] 2 exemplares
The Girl in the Mirror [short story] 2 exemplares
Coming into the country 1 exemplar
The Seven Golden Keys 1 exemplar
The Connector: How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg rewired our world and changed the way we live: A short biography of… (2010) 1 exemplar
The Gay Nabokov (in Salon, 17 May 2000) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Contribuidor — 417 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Read Harder: Five More Years of Great Writing from the Believer (2014) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
The Magicians #2 — Creator — 5 exemplares
The Magicians #3 — Creator — 2 exemplares
The Paulandstormonomicon — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Magicians #5 — Creator — 1 exemplar
Locus, July 2011 (606) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Grossman, Lev
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-06-26
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- Lexington High School
Harvard University (BA|1991)
Yale University - Relações
- Grossman, Austin (twin brother)
Grossman, Allen R. (father)
Grossman, Judith (mother)
Gee, Sophie (wife)
Grossman, Bathsheba (sister) - Organizações
- Time
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Alex Award (2010)
Tolkien Lecture (2015)
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2011)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist. He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016.
Grossman was born on June 26, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the twin brother of video game designer and novelist Austin Grossman, brother of sculptor Bathsheba Grossman, and son of the poet Allen Grossman and the novelist Judith Grossman. He is an alumnus of Lexington High School and Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard in 1991 with a degree in literature. Grossman then attended a Ph.D. program in comparative literature for three years at Yale University, but dropped out before completing his dissertation.
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Críticas
I got this book because of the recommendation by Patrick Rothfuss, so considering I loved his novel (and his review of this was good), I thought I might like it as well. Not so much.
I understand paying homage to authors and stories that you enjoy, but not to this degree. I didn't find there to be anything unique about this book - teen angst, school for wizards, travelling to other worlds to be kings/queens. Yes, this novel was darker in some spots than the other stories, but that wasn't enough for me to forget the references.
The plot was also all over the place. There was no real story-arch that kept you wanting to see what happened next, and to glue the pieces together. The different periods of Q's life in the story were very separate, without much linking them together. Yes, he talks about Fillory a lot, but it would have been great to see him trying to get there throughout the novel, without it just suddenly happening 3/4 of the way through the book (and by a different character, at that). I didn't have any sense of what the 'big bad' was, and what the quest or adventure was.
I just found this book hard to like - the plot was too choppy, characters I didn't really care for, and way too derivative without a new spin to give it uniqueness.… (mais)
I understand paying homage to authors and stories that you enjoy, but not to this degree. I didn't find there to be anything unique about this book - teen angst, school for wizards, travelling to other worlds to be kings/queens. Yes, this novel was darker in some spots than the other stories, but that wasn't enough for me to forget the references.
The plot was also all over the place. There was no real story-arch that kept you wanting to see what happened next, and to glue the pieces together. The different periods of Q's life in the story were very separate, without much linking them together. Yes, he talks about Fillory a lot, but it would have been great to see him trying to get there throughout the novel, without it just suddenly happening 3/4 of the way through the book (and by a different character, at that). I didn't have any sense of what the 'big bad' was, and what the quest or adventure was.
I just found this book hard to like - the plot was too choppy, characters I didn't really care for, and way too derivative without a new spin to give it uniqueness.… (mais)
This book is very problematic. Firstly, let me say that I did like the actual writing itself and that is mostly what kept me reading. But everything else? Awful. The characters aren't likable and there is little-to-no plot.
Roughly the first half of the book follows Quentin and his friends through magic school - this was the most interesting part to me, mostly because I've never read Harry Potter. Then the book shifts to post-graduation, where he and his friends do little more than get drunk, and then the last quarter of the book is in the magical land of Fillory, a world that seemed to just be a cheap imitation of Narnia and which was never really fleshed out. Since there was no plot, all these setting changes made the book that much more disjointed.
Then there was the unnecessary language and sex, the general "nothing in life matters, I'll just be miserable, then miserable some more, then repeat," attitude of all of the characters, and the gore thrown in that didn't seem to fit with the rest of the book.
Eeesh... I'm not sure how this got to be so popular?… (mais)
Roughly the first half of the book follows Quentin and his friends through magic school - this was the most interesting part to me, mostly because I've never read Harry Potter. Then the book shifts to post-graduation, where he and his friends do little more than get drunk, and then the last quarter of the book is in the magical land of Fillory, a world that seemed to just be a cheap imitation of Narnia and which was never really fleshed out. Since there was no plot, all these setting changes made the book that much more disjointed.
Then there was the unnecessary language and sex, the general "nothing in life matters, I'll just be miserable, then miserable some more, then repeat," attitude of all of the characters, and the gore thrown in that didn't seem to fit with the rest of the book.
Eeesh... I'm not sure how this got to be so popular?… (mais)
Flat out boring. Not worth finishing. Read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Instead
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Also by
- 30
- Membros
- 19,404
- Popularidade
- #1,124
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 1,070
- ISBN
- 200
- Línguas
- 15
- Marcado como favorito
- 29
- Pedras de toque
- 580
This is book 2 in what I believe is a trilogy. The first was touted as an adult Harry Potter. From vague recollection, it was ok, but since I’m not a big fantasy fan… Ok, well it looks like I liked it, but it sounds like it was more urban fantasy (than this 2nd book is), which is more my “thing” except toward the end of the book. I shouldn’t have bothered continuing the series. The second book seemed to lose the urban part of the fantasy, likely the part that made the first book likable for me.… (mais)