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one of my favourite yearly rituals is waiting for the first warm day of spring, and picking up a new (old!) book at the flea market, and reading it in the grass in the park ☺️

A paperback copy of Raymond E. Feist’s Magician: Apprentice.

@vga256
Did you happen to learn about this book after playing Betrayal at Krondor?

@dankeck yes in fact! i had no idea, as a kid, that the game was a unique story in the same world

@vga256 My favourite author. My mum bought me a copy of Magician when I was a kid, thinking I might enjoy it (even though I'd only read a couple of fantasy novels before), and I was enraptured. Now I have a shelf just for his books.
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@MossRC i can safely say that ten pages in, he absolutely had me ensnared. it's engrossing reading, and so well-imagined. I'm really, really looking forward to finishing it. my first Feist, aside from Krondor: The Betrayal

@vga256 You'll be able to appreciate The Betrayal more and more as you work through this book and the rest of the Riftwar Saga. Lots of good world building and backstories on some of the characters. The later (non-Riftwar) series are all really good, too, and everything's set in the same universe (though not necessarily same world) except for Faerie Tale. So you could well have your fantasy reading sorted for a long time.

@MossRC yes! I smiled reading of Pug as a young child - it sure was a contrast with the Pug I knew from the game 😆

@briandemodulated i'm really looking forward to finishing it. i grew up with adult-Pug in BaK, and had no idea the series began with him as a child!

@briandemodulated it pulled me right in, in the first 20 pages. super impressed so far!

@vga256 Oh man, definitely recommended. I've read Midkemia's Riftwar Saga way back during my junior year at the Uni (coincidentally after replaying Betrayal/Return to Krondor) and really enjoyed it.

@kurasiu can’t wait!