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“It’s an attempt to look realistically at what it would actually be like, as a teenager, to be introduced to the study of magic – how fun and exciting it would be to be in possession of secret knowledge and powers that no one else has, and to go places and do things that ordinary people can’t do. But it also tries to take seriously how unbelievably stupid teenagers are, and the horrible mistakes that they would definitely make if they could actually do magic.” Read more...
Lev Grossman, Novelist