Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
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lightreadsPawn of Prophecy
DNF. I picked this up for the lolz, but I just can't hack it. It's not just the racism (though . . . wow) or the turgid humorlessness. What really put the nail in was a conversation where two people are circling each other, and get on the topic of magic, and the person who is a white hat explains to the reader that magic is not a question of skill, oh no. Magic is just the thing you have inside you, and to suggest that it is a thing that one can learn is nearly offensive.
And that, my friends, is a pretty good encapsulation of everything that is boring about this kind of fantasy.
This book, incidentally, is supposed to be for adults, but in a reverse of my last book, reads like YA. Pretty young YA, too.
DNF. I picked this up for the lolz, but I just can't hack it. It's not just the racism (though . . . wow) or the turgid humorlessness. What really put the nail in was a conversation where two people are circling each other, and get on the topic of magic, and the person who is a white hat explains to the reader that magic is not a question of skill, oh no. Magic is just the thing you have inside you, and to suggest that it is a thing that one can learn is nearly offensive.
And that, my friends, is a pretty good encapsulation of everything that is boring about this kind of fantasy.
This book, incidentally, is supposed to be for adults, but in a reverse of my last book, reads like YA. Pretty young YA, too.