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High Wizardry (Young Wizards) (Paperback)

by Diane Duane (Author) "HEY, THERE'S SOMEBODY IN the driveway! ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company (Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 015204941X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0152049416
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,186,852 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another wizard in the family, 6 Jul 2005
By Michele L. Worley (Kingdom of the Mouse, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Wizardry (Young Wizards) (Paperback)
"'She didn't cause any trouble, did she?' Nita said.
'Trouble?' said the Stationmaster, and led them off across the bright floor and showed them the place where several large pieces of the ceiling had been shot down. 'Trouble?' it said, pointing out the places where the floors were melted, indicating the blaster scars in the kiosks and the large cordoned-off area where maintenance people of various species were scraping and scrubbing coffee-ground-smelling residue off the floor. 'Oh, no trouble. Not really.'"
- at the Crossings on Rirhath B, herein

At a minimum, read SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD (which introduces Nita, Kit, and to a lesser extent Nita's sister Dairine) before tackling this book. Ideally, you should also read DEEP WIZARDRY first, in which Nita's family found out that she's a wizard.

HIGH WIZARDRY differs from the earlier volumes in the series in that Nita and Kit, while present and even leading off as viewpoint characters, are not the focus. The main character is Nita's younger sister Dairine, who as the story opens - on the day their parents have just taken delivery of a new computer - has just got hold of Nita's manual, said the Oath, and is waiting for something to happen. Dairine, in fact, becomes one of the first human wizards to receive the beta-test version of the wizards' manual on a computer instead of in book form, so (as with each of the previous two books) we have another way of accessing wizardry being introduced.

The beta-test version of the wizards' manual. Think about that for a moment. This would be trouble even if a new-made wizard *didn't* face an Ordeal after taking the Oath, the problem for which he or she is a solution. Furthermore, since the youngest wizards are least likely to hesitate before attempting the supposedly impossible, wizards' Ordeals tend to deal with the toughest problems. And Dairine, just to make life interesting, would like to grow up to be a Jedi knight; she immediately dives into the bits of the manual that'll let her *really* travel. And thanks to the new version of the manual, it's set up in such a way that the wizard can access it without necessarily fully understanding how a spell will operate; she just has to be able to specify what she wants to do.

HIGH WIZARDRY puts me in mind of CS Lewis' PERELANDRA, because the core problem that Dairine faces in her ordeal is that of a world whose newly awakened inhabitants - essentially intelligent machines - face their first critical Choice that will determine how their species' history will play out. And how does one explain to an AI that fixing the bugs in the universe is not necessarily a good idea?

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, 18 Feb 2001
By splee_man@hotmail.com (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: High Wizardry (Young Wizards) (Paperback)
If you've read the previous books involving Nita and Kit (and even if you haven't) you'll love this! I couldn't stop reading it, and was hooked from page one. This is a must read!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, it but could be better, 9 Aug 1999
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This review is from: High Wizardry (Wizardry Series) (Paperback)
I adore the Wizardry series, and while I enjoyed this book, it didn't fascinate me or grab like the others in the series have. Dairine seems to have enough talents already, without needing to add another item to the list of things she can do better than her older sister. Nita and Kit are more likable characters by far than Dairine, and I'm afraid that I don't understand why she needed a novel focusing on her. Why not a novel with a focus on Kit? Dairine's expertise in everything gave me a deeper appreciation of the other characters, who try hard, have flaws, have interesting relationships, and have limitations in their abilities, as opposed to a better understanding of Dairine as a person and a character. This book is good... but not the best in this wonderful series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME!
I think that this book was GREAT. I read it in two days becasue I just couldn't put it down. I have read So You Want To Be a Wizard and Deep wizardry, and now I am working on A... Read more
Published on 26 May 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Telling the Truth about High Wizardry
As far as plot High Wizardry was okay, and the plot was exciting, but what got on my nerves was the fact that Nita's sister, Diarine became a wizard. Read more
Published on 23 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST
I started by reading So You Want to Be a Wizard about a year ago, and this summer read this book. I thought it was the best, best, BEST thing EVER. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 1998

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I use "High Wizardry" for an 8th grade interdisciplinary unit on astronomy. Besides being a gripping fantasy, Duane weaves in most of the concepts taught by our science... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 1997

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