Book Review by Sel: So You Want To Be A Wizard
It's not a famous book or a particularly popular one, but I love it very much, because the book - and the series - is not only well-written but contains some wonderful philosophical concepts of life, the universe, and how we see the world and our place in it.
I particularly like it because I first read it at age twenty-seven, and while it was targeted at the YA audience, it never spoke down to them or treated them like they couldn't understand what was going on. If anything, the book (and subsequent series) assumes its readers are intelligent, thoughtful people, who want to make a difference - just as its main characters do.
This isn't the dysfunctional struggles of Katniss' society in the Hunger Games, nor the wonder and magic of Harry Potter or Percy Jackson: this is the real world...difficult and complicated, but with hope.
It was written thirty years ago now, in a political, social, technical, and economic climate far different from the one we stand in now, but I think that the people reading the story haven't changed all that much - we're still human with all our dreams and all our nightmares: the best of us and the worst of us.
And a message with hope of a better future and our part in it will always speak to all generations.
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