Tomas and Pug experience some really extraordinary adventures in their rise to power and together they become embroiled in some really amazing and epic events that date back to thousands of years in their world’s past. Magician is primarily the tale of two boyhood friends’ rise to power from extremely humble beginnings, one the son of kitchen servants to a frontier (but politically powerful) Duke, and the other an orphan with none to claim him. That was a really great time for me, because I was discovering so many great books one after the other, and there was something about the adventures of Pug and Tomas and their friends that really drew me in to this world that Feist had created.
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and soon after Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Chronicles. When I started out reading epic fantasy/space opera back in freshman year of high school, it was one of the very first books I read, soon after J. Feist’s Magician remains, to this day, one of the finest examples of traditional epic fantasy that I’ve read. Now, just within the past year or two, he re-combined them into one volume as the author's preferred editon of "Magician" made whole.Raymond E.
In recent years, Feist sought to re-release the novel in two parts, calling them the "Author's preferred edition" (basically he'd made enough money to override his editor). Magician was originally released as a single volume. The only other director I know of to do fantasy is Ron Howard, but I don't think I'd want him to do it either. I don't think I'd want PJ to do it, though. If they can film LOTR, they can do Magician. Magician is already fast-paced enough to put into film too. The audience could get to know Pug in a 2 hour film much easier than they could Garion, and the writers for the film would have a much easier job too. It doesn't make his characters any less valuable, just easier to translate into film characters. Eddings takes great time to develop his characters carefully, whereas Feist tends to make bigger strides in time passed, allowing a broader picture of his characters much faster. I love both Eddings and Feist, but I have to say that Magician would make a better film, simply because Feist's characters, while being great in and of themselves, are different than Eddings' characters. Well, they're both very different animals.
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