Reviews for Sorcerers

The average rating for Sorcerers based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-11 00:00:00 Jose Ramirez I LOVE Jacob Needleman, got to hear him speak several years ago. He is a living treasure. Was so thrilled to find this work of fiction by him. It is a tale of the battle within all of us. He wrote a book called "Why can't we be Good?" and this book is the fictional realization of that. Note: I read the paperback, not the kindle, but couldn't change that...

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-11 00:00:00 Bob Smith Many years ago I pulled the uncorrected proof of this book down from the shelf at Black Oak, and decided to give it a try. Much more recently I took the same copy from my bookcase and thought I'd see what I thought now. Some books lose all their charm with the passage of time; some get better; some have surprisingly the same effect on me as the first time around. This one fell into the third category. It's the story of a teenaged boy named Eliot, growing up in Philadelphia in the 1950s, who strives to learn magic. This isn't the magic of Harry Potter, or the Narnia books, or of any fantastical world; Eliot works on basic magic tricks and is accepted into the Sorcerers, a club of aspiring teen magicians. Some of the Sorcerers are adept and elegant, while others are graceless gawks. There's mystery, and to everyone's surprise, some intrusion of what might be called "real magic." On the whole, the book is best described as a bildungsroman. It's not perhaps one of literature's great novels, but it deserves to be much better known than it is. It's subtle and unusual, with a deep understanding of humanity and spiritual development. I wouldn't say I've encountered many novels that even attempt the things this one does.