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Magic Street

di Orson Scott Card

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:??A modern suburban fantasy . . . There are quests and complications, conflicts and charms. . . . Card??s back in top form, doing as well as or better than any of his fantasy work so far.???The San Diego Union-Tribune
In a prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, infant Mack Street is found abandoned in an overgrown park and taken in by a blunt-speaking single woman. Growing up, Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers. Yet he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he discovers, beyond a mysterious narrow house no one else can see, an entryway into a magical world. Passing through, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where his actions seem to have disturbing effects in the ??real world.? Whether he likes it or not, Mack has become a player in an epic drama. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists.
Praise for Magic Street
??A great read . . . Card??s take on his characters [is] as sure as ever, his narrative rock solid, his dialogue crackling and authentic.???Los Angeles Times Book Review

??[Card] is a master at creating a sense of urgency that keeps you turning pages.???The Charlotte Observer 

??Mind-bending . . . Card??s clever tale comes with sharp writing and crisp dialogue.???The Tampa Tribune 

??Compelling . . . By the time the ultimate conflict comes into focus, the novel is propelling the reader forward like a bullet.???Deseret Morning News 
??A suspenseful fantasy thriller that, during the race to the last page, has one mulling over
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 Orson Scott Card: Magic Street?7 non letti / 7saltmanz, Febbraio 2011

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De manera misteriosa, Mack Street percibe que es distinto de los demás niños de su calle. Aunque sabe que ha sido adoptado, desconoce su verdadero origen. Pero cuando alguien es capaz de soñar los sueños de sus vecinos, la fantasía y la magia pueden entrar en la vida cotidiana y, en manos de un brillante escritor como Orson Scott Card, mezclarse con el antiguo y ya clásico enfrentamiento de amor y odio entre Oberón y Titania, el rey y la reina de las hadas.
  Natt90 | Jul 6, 2022 |
I did not really care for this book. It was recommended to me and I then recommended it to one of my book groups, but when I started reading it, I just could not get into it or get into the story. It just wasn't "my cup of tea" but it's been too many years to remember exactly why.

I've since read other Orson Scott Card books and I've liked them better. ( )
  Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |
As with all of Card's books, this most recent of his is very well written.
It takes place in an upper-middle-class black american community. Card's afterword makes much of how he had his black friend vet it before sending it out - I think because he KNEW that he'd be taking a lot of criticism. The characters in this book don't just happen to be black, they make a Big Deal out of being black (or Card makes that deal). At times, his characterization works - but at other times I felt like saying, "Yo, you be Trying Too Hard, bro!"
Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the first half of this book. It's a riff on the classic stories of wishes gone wrong. An adopted foundling, Mack Street, grows up in a tight-knit community... but he has dreams of his neighbor's dearest wishes - dreams that begin to come true in horrific ways.
And one day he discovers he can slip sideways through a house no one else can see, and into Fairyland... he is, of course, a changeling, and is pulled into the ago-old drama involving Puck, Oberon and Titania...
However, the second half of the book becomes overtly religious. (As opposed to being a book about religious people, which is fine.) But it got extremely moralizing, and, probably because I don't agree with Card's religious views, the story and plot really just stopped working for me. Card, I felt, was trying to overlay a black-and-white duality over a story of beings who have always been amoral (and are here specified as still being amoral), and eh.... it didn't work. There is also a very weird segment where for some very vaguely explained reason, Mack has to have sex with the 'hot motorcycle hoochie mama' who is Titania. But he won't do it before getting married. rolleyes.gif So Titania says they can be married only in the eyes of God (? A fairy says this?) but not the law, so Titania Hypnotizes the preacher into doing a ceremony (dude, I don't think that counts!), but this makes sex OK! And then, even more oddly, Card makes some comment about this being like a gay marriage where partners are "married in the eyes of God but not the law." Just trying to figure out if Card has changed his stance on homosexuality and gay marriage here, or not??? Anyway, it was all pretty ridiculous.
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  AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
MAGIC STREET, by Orson Scott Card, is a little bit Alice in Wonderland and a whole lot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The character names are familiar; there’s Puck, Oberon, Tatania. But the main character is Mack Street, an abandoned (or maybe not) infant who grows up with certain abilities.
Mack lives in the Baldwin Hills area of L.A., and as he gets older, his life gets weirder and weirder. He finds a hidden entrance to Fairyland, and he is involved in subduing Oberon, the king of the fairies.
I really liked the weaving of Shakespeare’s characters into this story, but by the end the storyline had pretty much lost my interest.
~Stephanie ( )
  BooksOn23rd | Nov 25, 2015 |
All I want in a fantasy book. Us poor humans caught up in good struggling against evil. Quotable pronouncements which sound deep (tho I'll have to think on them to see how they hold up over time) on the nature of wishes, reality, power, and evil. ( )
  juniperSun | Feb 5, 2015 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:??A modern suburban fantasy . . . There are quests and complications, conflicts and charms. . . . Card??s back in top form, doing as well as or better than any of his fantasy work so far.???The San Diego Union-Tribune
In a prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, infant Mack Street is found abandoned in an overgrown park and taken in by a blunt-speaking single woman. Growing up, Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers. Yet he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he discovers, beyond a mysterious narrow house no one else can see, an entryway into a magical world. Passing through, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where his actions seem to have disturbing effects in the ??real world.? Whether he likes it or not, Mack has become a player in an epic drama. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists.
Praise for Magic Street
??A great read . . . Card??s take on his characters [is] as sure as ever, his narrative rock solid, his dialogue crackling and authentic.???Los Angeles Times Book Review

??[Card] is a master at creating a sense of urgency that keeps you turning pages.???The Charlotte Observer 

??Mind-bending . . . Card??s clever tale comes with sharp writing and crisp dialogue.???The Tampa Tribune 

??Compelling . . . By the time the ultimate conflict comes into focus, the novel is propelling the reader forward like a bullet.???Deseret Morning News 
??A suspenseful fantasy thriller that, during the race to the last page, has one mulling over

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