![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and C.S. ![]() Grossman, who works as the book critic for Time magazine, says that when he was young, he was particularly taken with J.R.R. And I always wondered why Harry wasn't a fantasy reader," he says. "If I had grown up the way Harry did - in an abusive, loveless step-family - all I would have done was read fantasy. Grossman says he's always wondered why Potter wasn't a fan of the genre: The hero, Quentin, is a teenager from Brooklyn on his way to a Princeton admissions interview when he's whisked through a portal to an Academy of Magic called Brakebills.īut Quentin differs from Harry Potter in that he reads fantasy novels, and he's enchanted to discover that the magic he's longed for all his life actually exists. On first glance, Lev Grossman's new novel, The Magicians, looks very much like a Harry Potter story, only with slightly older characters, and an American setting. ![]()
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