Alan Dean Foster
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.86 | 6405 Users | 190 Reviews
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| Title | : | Spellsinger (Spellsinger #1) |
| Author | : | Alan Dean Foster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2004 by iBooks (first published March 1st 1983) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Humor. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having incredibly shitty parenting; no one to tell you, when you are young and dumb, that it is illegal for employers to pay less than minimum wage, that legally the lodge was allowed to charge me 9% of my gross wage for room and board and not a cent more, and that I was about to be exploited all to hell. Ah, rich people. Before I arrived I dreamed of long summer evenings, hanging out with the other staff, swimming in the river, finding a cute local summer boyfriend, and having a great growth experience. Reality was slightly different. I was the only staff member living on site, no one hung out together, the lodge was a billion miles from civilisation (duh) and I only had a pushbike, all the male staff were married, and the locals were hostile (again, duh!). That was the first Christmas Day I spent without seeing another human being. Also without eating anything, because staff meals were in the kitchen, which was (triple duh) closed for the day, because the whole lodge was closed for the day, and this had not occurred to me, literally, until Christmas morning. Well, thank fuck for Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series. If I was prepared to turn myself into a sweat-dripping, overheated mess (and I was) I could cycle into the tiny local public library (where I BEGGED to be allowed to join, against all the residency rules: thank you, kind librarian), and I read my way through their entire fiction section (it was one wall). I lived for each week's Spellsinger volume. What could have been more apt for me than a story about a fish-out-of-water human with hidden magic talents, transported to a strange and hostile land. The hope that I too could be a speshul snowflake kept me from crying more than once a week (maybe twice . . . okay, three times). I have never tried to re-read the series, because I fear Spellsinger isn't actually objectively particularly amazing, but I still have an overstrong affection for the song Sloop John B, and call the tiny moving dots in the side of one's field of vision 'gneechees'. Thanks, ADF.Itemize Books Concering Spellsinger (Spellsinger #1)
| Original Title: | Spellsinger |
| ISBN: | 0743498259 (ISBN13: 9780743498258) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Spellsinger #1 |
| Characters: | Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, Clothahump, Mudge, Talea |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 6405 Users | 190 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books Spellsinger (Spellsinger #1)
This is coool! A boy was suddenly snatched from our world to a world where most animals are as sentient, if not more, than humankind, and where magic exists! What's more, the snatched boy finds out that he's got a gift for the arcane! He's a natural spellsinger! <3 The book is well written, and the pacing is never boring. The characters are really strange people, but it's what makes them so interesting and exciting, so who am I to complain? He starts out not knowing anything about his superbThe following summary was taken from the TV Tropes Wiki entry on the Spellsinger series, and slightly modified."The Spellsinger series is a fantasy series written by Alan Dean Foster, which has been described on this wiki's This Is Your Premise On Drugs page as "Narnia on an unholy combination of pot and Viagra".In the first book, Spellsinger, the hero Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, also known as Jon-Tom, is a prelaw student with pretentions to rock stardom, who is innocently smoking pot when he's
When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having incredibly shitty parenting; no one to tell you, when you are young and dumb, that it is illegal for employers to pay less than minimum wage, that legally the lodge was allowed to charge me 9% of
I loved this series when I discovered it in middle school. Re-reading it now, I'm less impressed... it reads like a standard person-transported-to-fantasy-world-and-discovers-magic tale. However, there are some quite entertaining and creative elements (e.g., a Marxist dragon!). The magic itself is nearly marginal - not complex, interesting, or well thought out (these days magic systems that impose no cost on the caster make no sense to me). On the other hand, our protagonist (firmly embedded in
I have to admit I avoided this book because I tend to dislike "cutesy" books, and I thought it looked kind of silly. For this reason, for quite I while I avoided Alan Dean Foster completely, partly because of this, and partly because of all the tie-in novels. I ended up reading one of his science fiction novels ("The Man Who Used the Universe") which I really enjoyed, reminding me of the best space opera by Mike Resnick and Steve Perry, both of whom I really enjoy. So I started picking up his
This reads like a blast from the past. Anybody who reads fantasy novels will see many fantasy troupes in the series, but at the time of publication in the 80's maybe readers had a different perspective. Other things I like to highlight is the main character. I wonder if Thomas was the original hapless modern male transported to a fantasy novel cliche with more martial women as companions. What may have been refreshing back then is of course predictable in 2018. Not really sure how to rate this
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