Young Wizards

[persephone_kore]

--Betcha Daniel Webster was a wizard in that world. I wonder if the events of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" were his Ordeal? ...No, not unless he started exceptionally late. And it involved arguing more than any great expenditure of power. Definitely an assignment for when he was more experienced.

--Should the events of the end of High Wizardry make it easier for the occasional "shadow" to be influenced, perhaps even brought to the same choice, or impossible? (Darned confusing nonlinear time. ;))

--I agree with those who suspect the series was supposed to be a trilogy, but I'm glad it isn't. (I want the seventh book. It sounds very entertaining.) I was disappointed with A Wizard Abroad when I first read it, perhaps because High Wizardry ended on such a... er... high note, but I think I like it better now.

--I still want the reconfiguration to have more noticeable effects. Besides Arhu.

--I just envisioned a meeting between Arhu and Ronan....

--Given the opportunity and the right conditions, I wonder if Arhu would attempt to romance Tualha.

--What are the implications of the requirement that healing involves experiencing the pain of the original injury, on the Reconfiguration?

--Getting home at the end of that book was a lot easier than getting to the motherboard in the first place. This was probably a great relief. The redeemed Lone Power does good transport. ;)

--Duane appears to have forgotten or changed her mind somewhere on the way to the sixth book about wizards swearing and whether the Manual changes size. Oh well.

--It's always sort of bothered me that Nita pretty much agreed to bring the manual back to the library and get it stamped, and then she didn't. Am I forgetting something?

--Sure seems like the part about changing creatures or objects only when they or their system is threatened gets taken rather casually as a rule. Then again, arguably everything is under threat....

--Stuff that reminded me of other books: Silmarillion -- the casting into the outer darkness (though I don't think Morgoth worked his way back quite so much). The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -- repeated notes that "good" doesn't necessarily mean "safe." Mary Poppins or rather one of the later books -- young children being able to understand the speech of creatures that they later can't talk to, at least not unless they're wizards.

Comments

[biichan.livejournal.com]

Hey. Did you know they've got a Young Wizards lj community up. I'm pretty sure it's youngwizards but since I'm doing this off the top of my head I can't be positive. And it was in Mary Poppins that John and Barbara couldn't hear the bird talk any more, it was in one of the chapters that never made it into the movie, mostly because John and Barbara never made it into the movie either.

Yes. I'm a Mary Poppins junkie. How can you tell?

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool. I'll have to check that out.... I've been looking at the official forums the past few days, actually. (Diane Duane put up excerpts from the first few chapters of the next book. I have read them and am now impatient.)

And it was in Mary Poppins that John and Barbara couldn't hear the bird talk any more, it was in one of the chapters that never made it into the movie, mostly because John and Barbara never made it into the movie either.

That would do it....

Thanks. :) I read... um, all the ones that my local library had, a while back, but it's been a while, so my grasp of the continuity is rather loose. (Same for the Rescuers books, actually.)

...I felt sorry for that bird.