Welcome back to Thursday Quotables! This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written, Thursday Quotables is where my favorite lines of the week will be, and you’re invited to join in!
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The Magician King by Lev Grossman
(published 2011)
I just finished this terrific book, book #2 in The Magicians series. It’s all wonderful, but it’s hard to pick out just one passage for Thursday Quotables!
More or less at random, here’s a little piece of a speech by a favorite character:
“I don’t mind telling you that I found the whole business more than a little provoking. I was being called, you understand, and I most definitely did not want to come. I understand the appeal this sort of thing has for you, quests and King Arthur and all that. But that’s you. No offense, but it always seemed a bit like boy stuff to me. Sweaty and strenuous and just not very elegant, if you see what I mean. I didn’t need to be called to feel special, I felt special enough already. I’m clever, rich, and good-looking. I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom , amid a riot of luxury.
What lines made you laugh, cry, or gasp this week? Do tell!
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- Write a Thursday Quotables post on your blog. Try to pick something from whatever you’re reading now. And please be sure to include a link back to Bookshelf Fantasies in your post (http://www.bookshelffantasies.com), if you’d be so kind!
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Hey, that sounds great 🙂
But… is this an arthurian story? There has been a time when I woudl read every arthurian story I could find. But now it’s been a while…
Oh, no, it’s not Arthurian at all (although there is a quest). It’s about modern day magicians. The first book is a bit like grown-up Harry Potter/Hogwarts, and this one has a definite Prince Caspian feel to it. The series kind of riffs on children’s fantasy series — what would life be like if you actually lived in one of those worlds? Good stuff. 🙂
That’s an intriguing quote there! I haven’t heard of the series.. maybe I’ll check it out on gr 🙂
It’s great! Syfy made a TV series out of it that had its first season earlier this year. They did a pretty good job of translating it to TV.