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Author - Diane Duane
Magic, Adventure, Action, Romance, and Mystery; to you this might just be a list of things that you would find in this book, but to me it's so much more. To me this is a recipe for one of the most thought out introductory books. The beginning of the young wizardry series starts off the best a series could start off. The publicity of this book is quite low because it was released when things like this were taboo and not a single person wanted to read this; however if this had been released around the same time as the first Harry Potter there would be some competition and I think this book would have won. Although the ideas in the two books are very resemblant the ideas inside of "So You Want to be a Wizard" are so much more appealing to a young child because you could become a wizard at anytime not just at birth. That isn't the only difference either; the book grows in diversity to show that the younger the wizard the more power they have, and that their power does not come from themselves but from the world. Their power isn't infinite either, the world is losing energy and it is the job of the wizards to use their power to sustain the earth. They are supposed to exert small amounts of power to save the world from losing massive amounts of power. The magic in this book isn't exactly the stereotypical magic either. Normally you wave a wand around and say some magic words and stuff happens. In this book you have to tell something what its doing. If you wanted air to turn solid you would have to convince it to turn solid or just force it to turn solid by telling it that it is solid in the language of wizardry. That in my oppinion is the game winner for this book, the fact that it branches away from the normal magic wand and incoherant words. |
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