Match BookOff to Be the Wizard
Scott Meyer
2013 · 373 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
Off to Be the Wizard is fantasy (comic portal fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are friendship and identity. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 373 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something funny
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy, dark or tense
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- funny
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- friendship, identity
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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