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Inspired by the need to find all of the rip-offs...er, homages from The Books of Magic perpetuated by this Harry Potter fella, I've finally bought and read the John Ney Reiber run for the first time over the last week. Any fans here? I have to say that I was much more impressed by the read as a whole than I expected to be by the several scattered issues that I'd read before. I still, for some reason, feel like I've missed something. A lot of things, really. At least part of this can be pinned on Neiber and the fact that he leaves a lot of story points unexplained or unquestioned, with things happening "off camera" and whatnot. Besides that, there is a lot in the series that I felt I missed because it seemed like he was alluding to works and/or myths outside of the series that I'm unfamiliar with. I have, for instance, almost no knowledge of fantasy fiction or the tropes found therein, so if there are a lot of familiar fantasy elements in BoM, that probably was responsible for some of my confusion. Anyway. Just interested in the broader perspective of fellow Barbelithers.
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