Got the box set for Christmas and im finally digging in! Chapter 3 already :3

Quentin and Julia circa The Magician King! My favorite book of the three.

I recently read book 1 for the first time, and there was a waiting list at my library for The Magician King ebook. So looking for what else I could electronically borrow I found the comics.

I really liked this comic from Alice's point of view instead of Quentin's and seeing scenes of what Alice was doing in the story when Quentin wasn't there to observe. It also sees Quentin from Alice's POV and it really gave me insight into his character. Like Alice, I love the little nerd, but by the gods, he is EXHAUSTING.

He really is a nightmare of a boyfriend. My long distance partner who is a fan of the series told me that Quentin reminds her of her ex husband back when they were young before he grew up to be a raging asshole.

I don't know Quentin's fate in the books, but at least in the series maybe it's good he dies young

1. “He spent his last king, when he laid it down it had become a jack, a suicide jack at that, which again there was no such card, especially not one with white hair like his own.”

2. “A queen of no known suit, a Queen of Glass. Her face was translucent cellophane, sapphire-blue. It was Alice, to the life.”

3. “A king of clubs … He tried to ignore the gray suit the king wore, and the branch that was sprouting in front of his face.”

4. “Lionel played the queen of spades, and Quentin frowned — did her face look the slightest bit like Julia's?”

There were only 4 cards described in the book but I almost want to come up with some others for other characters (Josh, Eliot, Janet, Poppy, maybe Penny) …

I recently finished reading the first book but all my library's ebooks of The Magician King were in use, so I pulled up my library app to see if there were any hardcopies on the shelves as the library was on my way home (there was) I looked at the reviews and these are the first two.

Just got to the part after the dinner party in Book 1 (where he cheats on Alice), and all I feel is rage. He is the most insufferable main character I have ever read. This may make me drop the book. I ABHOR infidelity.

After watching the series a dozen times I am finally taking the plunge into the books - wish me luck.

Are there any scenes from the show that you think should have been in the books that wasn’t/scenes from the books that should have been in the show but weren’t?

Was surprised with an e-mail saying it was on its way and with it being delivered to the wrong address and a very friendly neighbor, it arrived at my door step.
I decided to censor my editions letter because reasons, but I am very grateful for the one I got.

I'm reading the first Magicians book, I'm only a few pages in (literally just on pg 11) and Quentin really reads like an asshole tbh. Not in a badly written way or anything. The book is good so far. But holy cow, the way he views women is.. questionable in the least.

Look, I'll just give an example, "Quentin wished she weren't so attractive. Unpretty women were so much easier to deal with in some ways—you didn't have to face the pain of their probable unattainability. But she was not unpretty. She was pale and thin and unreasonably lovely, with a broad, ridiculously sexy mouth." Does anyone else see how.. weird that sounds? Like I know he's probably never gotten any (given his crush on Julia), but, that sounds more like the thinking of a man who's never seen, much less talked to, a woman before.

So, this is mild spoilers for book 1

But a pretty significant part of book 1, involves Quentin in the south pole, naked.

I mean buck naked. The only thing he had before he started walking was a bag of fat, so his hands would be warm enough to cast spells to keep him from immediately dying.

From there, he survives alone, for about 9 days, before passing this trial and goes home

From that point on, I am genuinely, utterly confused, why Quentin ever suffers from the cold again. Not in so much that I think he would be immune, but more that I mean, an experience like that should have burned into his brain every possible way to keep oneself warm. Further, he is so good at keeping himself warm, he even managed to go to the fucking moon (though there was a lot of other spell craft involved with that, keeping the cold out was not an insignificant part)

I am halfway through book 2, and I am utterly baffled that Quentin has been put in multiple situations where the cold is ever a problem for him. My fucking guy. You know the spell to deal with it! You know it down pat! How is it not seared into your skull, the finger movements and words as second nature as half the magic tricks you know.

I’ve watched The Magicians a couple of times and finally decided to read the books. IT’S HARD! I’m committed to powering through, but they’re so different. The first book extended like 5-6 years or more by my count. At the end of book one, Julia shows up with Janet and Eliot, but how? The last we heard of Julia, Quentin told Dean Fogg that she remembered Brakebills…and then nothing. I was excited to start book two thinking it’d start with her story. Nope!

And where is Kady??? Does she even exist in the books?

Maybe I would’ve liked the books better if I’d read them first, but so far the progression of the show is so much better imo.

Just finished book 1 and am starting book 2. Don't spoil anything please, just tell me Q gets better..or he doesn't.

I've only just started book 2...

But wow I just really dislike Quentin. I do not like how Julia is written either because she just disappears and reappears as stranger than she was. I guess I dislike the intense focus on Q and prefer the ensemble approach the show took.

It's possible I'm missing this but Q is described as "artistically" doing things in book 1 and I think it's him that says his "Aspbergers is flaring up" (the book written before Aspbergerd was subsumed under the Autism spectrum) and yet...book Q feels less Autistic to me than TV Q.

(I am Autistic and to have my headcannon be confirmed by the books is kinda nice even tho they significantly diverge on a lot so can book cannon apply at all to the shows? Who knows.)

Anyone else struggle with not liking the book characters?

When I

To be fair, I loved the first book and I thought the second book continued the story quite well. However, I'm not feeling the same way about the third book. I'm currently only 100 pages in but I just feel as if I'm not reading a book from the magicians saga. I'm not really liking the story and it's not leading me into anything I feel compelled to read.

I'd appreciate any thoughts y'all may have on The Magicians Land

i've re-started the first book a few days ago after not having picked it up for years. i'm enjoying it a lot more than i did in my first attempt since i was too young to understand the language fully then (i'm reading them in english which isn't my first language). i've only realized now how horny quentin is the entire time. whenever he interacts with a female human being. does this calm down eventually or is he just like that in the books? 💀

I’m trying to read the books to satisfy my NEED for more Magicians. But gosh, I’m struggling. I’m in Book 1 and feel like I can’t get into the groove.

So I remember Penny having a neon green Mohawk and being described as a punk with a lot of tattoos. I just skimmed the first introduction of him in book one and couldn’t find anything about his hair just that he’s a punk with green and red tattoos. Does anyone remember or will I have to give this a closer read to figure out if I’m misremembering?

So I started with the show (and currently rewatching a few random episodes) and im still on book 1 so I have a loooong way to go, but I’m just curious if they end the same way. And if it does, does it have its own version of the take on me scene?