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My World Made More Real by The Last Wizard
Though the land his characters inhabit is one that has emerged forth from the author’s own imagination and is nowhere you could really travel to in a car, it is clearly a mysterious land he has visited. It’s a landscape he paints with the strokes and colors of experiences spent in Georgia backwoods and mountains, in the foothills and high country of North Carolina.Maguire’s observations are keenly of a world that he has felt underfoot, whose mornings he has felt the chill and warmth of, whose slicing foliage he has felt against his face when negotiating a thick forest too quickly.It’s an emotional terrain he’s traveled as well. This is apparent from the first tilt of the sword’s hilt in defense of a field of corn and, most poignant, the defense of the young warrior’s manhood. Arestus had discovered that however young he might appear in the lake’s reflection or in the eyes of the ignoble with no reverence for the land, his fierceness had been growing for ages and awaiting the day to be revealed as the warrior learned who he truly is.This book is called fantasy, but it’s truth is true of this world as much or more than it is of that one. Though I wonder. Are they so different? That world and this? Since reading In Pursuit of the Pale Prince and now this, The Last Wizard at the End of the World, I’m not so certain that I don’t inhabit the world that has emerged from Maguire’s imagination.And as with any great piece of writing, The Last Wizard makes my life in this world, the world in which I type this review, a little richer. It helps me to see around the corner of things, beneath the surface of a moment or conversation, to realize the battles and the beauty are there playing out at the edge of the world in a world without end and I can feel it growing-- my fierceness to defend the things that really matter.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
Maguire’s observations are keenly of a world that he has felt underfoot, whose mornings he has felt the chill and warmth of, whose slicing foliage he has felt against his face when negotiating a thick forest too quickly.
It’s an emotional terrain he’s traveled as well. This is apparent from the first tilt of the sword’s hilt in defense of a field of corn and, most poignant, the defense of the young warrior’s manhood. Arestus had discovered that however young he might appear in the lake’s reflection or in the eyes of the ignoble with no reverence for the land, his fierceness had been growing for ages and awaiting the day to be revealed as the warrior learned who he truly is.
This book is called fantasy, but it’s truth is true of this world as much or more than it is of that one. Though I wonder. Are they so different? That world and this? Since reading In Pursuit of the Pale Prince and now this, The Last Wizard at the End of the World, I’m not so certain that I don’t inhabit the world that has emerged from Maguire’s imagination.
And as with any great piece of writing, The Last Wizard makes my life in this world, the world in which I type this review, a little richer. It helps me to see around the corner of things, beneath the surface of a moment or conversation, to realize the battles and the beauty are there playing out at the edge of the world in a world without end and I can feel it growing-- my fierceness to defend the things that really matter.
My World Made More Real by The Last Wizard
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
Though the land his characters inhabit is one that has emerged forth from the author’s own imagination and is nowhere you could really travel to in a car, it is clearly a mysterious land he has visited. It’s a landscape he paints with the strokes and colors of experiences spent in Georgia backwoods and mountains, in the foothills and high country of North Carolina.Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
Maguire’s observations are keenly of a world that he has felt underfoot, whose mornings he has felt the chill and warmth of, whose slicing foliage he has felt against his face when negotiating a thick forest too quickly.
It’s an emotional terrain he’s traveled as well. This is apparent from the first tilt of the sword’s hilt in defense of a field of corn and, most poignant, the defense of the young warrior’s manhood. Arestus had discovered that however young he might appear in the lake’s reflection or in the eyes of the ignoble with no reverence for the land, his fierceness had been growing for ages and awaiting the day to be revealed as the warrior learned who he truly is.
This book is called fantasy, but it’s truth is true of this world as much or more than it is of that one. Though I wonder. Are they so different? That world and this? Since reading In Pursuit of the Pale Prince and now this, The Last Wizard at the End of the World, I’m not so certain that I don’t inhabit the world that has emerged from Maguire’s imagination.
And as with any great piece of writing, The Last Wizard makes my life in this world, the world in which I type this review, a little richer. It helps me to see around the corner of things, beneath the surface of a moment or conversation, to realize the battles and the beauty are there playing out at the edge of the world in a world without end and I can feel it growing-- my fierceness to defend the things that really matter.
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