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Original Title:	The Prestige
ISBN:	0312858868 (ISBN13: 9780312858865)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Andrew Westley, Kate Angier, Rupert Angier, Alfred Borden, Arthur Koenig, Nikola Tesla
Literary Awards:	Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1996), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1995), World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1996)

The Prestige

Christopher Priest

Paperback | Pages: 404 pages

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Title	:	The Prestige
Author	:	Christopher Priest
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 404 pages
Published	:	September 15th 1997 by Tom Doherty Associates Tor Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery

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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.

Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.

Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.

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Actual Rating: 3.5 StarsUhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhOk this is MUCH MUCH different from the film. Im a little fucked up about how this ended, to be honest.

"An illusion has three stages."First there is the setup, in which the nature of what might be attempted at is hinted at, or suggested, or explained. The apparatus is seen. volunteers from the audience sometimes participate in preparation. As the trick is being setup, the magician will make use of every possible use of misdirection."The performance is where the magician's lifetime of practice, and his innate skill as a performer, cojoin to produce the magical display."The third stage is sometimes

I literally held off on reading this for YEARS because I "knew" I was going to love it.Heh.

Let's get one thing out of the way: I preferred the movie. It was a tenser experience with much more compelling motivations to drive the characters forward. More importantly, the movie succeeded in obscuring plotholes where the novel did not.Nevertheless, much like the magic trick at the centre of Christopher Priest's The Prestige, the original version is more inventive for having been the first and all the more enjoyable for not having technology as an aid to bolster the haunting tale.It's a

I held him tightly against me. He was neither cold nor warm. One of his outstretched hands, clenched in fear, was touching the side of my face. The relief of finding him at last overwhelmed everything everything except the fear of this place. I wanted to turn around so that I could head back towards the exit, but to do so involved moving backwards out of the gangway. I held my past life in my arms, but I no longer knew what might be standing behind me.There was something there, though.Wow. This

For two-thirds of its length, The Prestige is a six-star novel out of five possible stars, an elaborate and beautifully rendered tale of dueling magicians in turn of the century London. The smoke and mirrors of stagecraft and the intrigue of two duplicitous men who take their professional grudge to the grave has the makings of a great novel by itself, but unfortunately and almost fatally, an element of science fiction is introduced in the third act that sends the book off the rails. Christopher

I wish I could award half stars, for this book truly would be 3.5 stars--better that I liked it but less than I really liked it. I was engaged while I was reading, but every time I set it down, I had a struggle to pick it back up again. Totally on me, its not the book.If you enjoyed Robertson Davies Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders), you will probably enjoy this book too. Unlike Davies, the ending felt rather Frankenstein-like to me. And I have to wonder if Erin